Colorado

I have to start this blog post by saying that this may of been one of the best vacations that we have ever taken! We have so many great pictures that I don't even know how I am going to pick just a few to post.

Gary and Laurie invited the whole Edmonds family to their beautiful cabin in South Fork, Colorado for Christmas. So we loaded up the car on Christmas Day and headed to Colorado. We left at like 1:00 in the afternoon. We drove to Raton, New Mexico and stopped for the night.

We woke up Sunday morning and attended church there in Raton. It was really a blessing. The church we went to were only expecting 2 members to show that day and we more than tripled their numbers. After church, we ate lunch and drove the rest of the way to Colorado.

The drive from Raton to South Fork was beautiful! I loved driving through the mountains. We were so happy to get to the cabin and to see everyone. We ate some yummy chicken spaghetti that Laurie whipped up and just hung out.

On Monday, we went sledding. The kids LOVED it! It was so much fun!

Monday night we had our "Edmonds Family Christmas".

On Tuesday, we went on a sleigh ride. It was so beautiful and that it didn't look real! I can't even explain how beautiful it was. We were all cuddled up together with big blankets to keep us warm.

Tuesday was also PawPaw's birthday so we celebrated with a big dinner and cake. We all wrote special letters to PawPaw to let him know just how much he means to us.
On Wednesday, we wanted to take the kids sledding again. There was a snow storm coming so we decided to leave early to try to beat the snow storm. We got up the mountain...barely. It was not safe to drive up there, so we changed our mind and decided to go to another town down the mountain, Creede. It was the neatest little town. We had a lot of fun with Laurie, Gary, Emily and Caroline.

The whole time we had been in Colorado, I was looking forward to seeing some wild life. I saw NONE. I was very disappointed that the bears were hibernating because I want to see one up close really bad. I kept talking about going to some of the caves and just taking a peak in. WELL, we spotted one on the way back to the cabin, so Laurie stopped so that we could try to get in. Emily, Caroline, and I climbed up but we weren't sure how we would be able to get down. Needless to say, we aborted that mission. I was happy that we at least tried! Thanks Laurie!
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We had planned to leave on Thursday, but that was up in the air because of the snow storm. We watched the news to decide what to do. We ended up deciding that it was better to leave on Thursday morning because we thought that the roads might be better on Thursday than on Friday. I wasn't quite ready to leave, but I believed it was best.

Thursday morning we got up and packed to leave. The first two hours of our drive was adventurous. First, we saw a truck lose control and run through three fences before flipping in a field. We stopped and Brock got out to help the motorist not knowing what he was going to find. Surprising to us, as well as himself, he was fine and just had a few scratches. After the paramedics arrived, we were on our way. The one mountain pass that we knew might be tricky was that and a lot more. I was so scared.

There were two times that I really feared for our lives. At one point we skidded completely sideways and a few minutes later, the snow was blowing so hard that we couldn't see the road. After we got through the mountain pass, we were safe! We drove to Amarillo to stay the night. It was raining pretty hard that night. We were excited to get our room upgraded and we got a jacuzzi bathtub. Connor decided that he wanted to take a bath...he makes me mention that he never takes baths. He takes showers! Anways, I put a little bit of bubble bath in the tub and this is what happened!


Friday morning, we drove the rest of the way home...it seemed like it was taking forever but we were so happy to be home. We stopped to eat at a Dairy Queen too.