Crazy Catch-Up!

I can’t believe it’s been over a month since my last entry! There have been MANY exciting new developments in my pregnancy (which I will get to in the next post) and MANY excuses for not writing sooner (mainly our busy schedule).

Over the last month we had a successful family garage sale, fabulous weekend at the Broadmoor Hotel, a quick trip to Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and a relaxing July 4^th holiday in Steamboat with family. It’s exhausting just thinking about it, but wonderful remembering all of it!

Our over-night stay at the Broadmoor Hotel turned into an entire weekend event since my work gave us gift cards to spend at the hotel. We used our gift cards toward a second night and still have a balance leftover! It was SO nice to sleep in a king size bed and get pampered with my first-ever prenatal massage (pretty much my first massage ever too!). Rock joined us the second night and we were able to play at the great pool together as a family on Sunday. It was a fabulous weekend!

Florida was a whirlwind trip, which meant it wasn’t exactly the relaxing babymoon we expected, but it was a perfect amount of time away from home and spent with GREAT friends. We got to experience all of the Austin-Cook wedding festivities including the rehearsal dinner (complete with karaoke) on Thursday, setting up the reception décor before the wedding, attending the beautiful wedding ceremony and reception on Friday, and enjoying a beach outing with the family and friends on Saturday! It was a full schedule but we loved every minute of it. We did manage to have one romantic dinner together Saturday night before flying home Sunday.

We weren’t home long (only one day) before we re-packed and headed to the mountains to join some of my family members at my Aunt and Uncle’s Huckleberry Hideaway in Steamboat for the July 4^th festivities. There were no fireworks due to the open-flame bans, but we enjoyed the 4^th of July parade, hikes, soaking in the hot tub, and a gondola ride up Mt Werner. I think Phil and I would agree that the highlight of the trip was getting to be around family for five days and seeing how well Rock behaved with all of the unusual events and schedules of the week. It was hard to leave and come home to an empty fridge and impending work week.

I did manage to find an adorable maternity bathing suit at Target before we left for all of these adventures, so we were able to enjoy water outings at each vacation spot. Thank you Lord for blessing us with the busy schedule we’ve had. And thank you for protecting our kids and our family through all of our travels and life’s adventures.