Pictures from Colorado!

Just wanted to share some pictures from our trip to Colorado Springs. We had airlines points to use (we've been saving them for years) and thought we'd better use them before they changed the program on us! We all had free tickets! Anyway, everything went great! The kids loved the plane and were so well behaved on it, the hotel was great, and all the activites we planned went perfectly! The kids could not have been better to be honest! Nothing comes with a meltdown here or there, but really, I was impressed by them. If there's one thing I've learned about my boys, it's that they are at their best when busy.

Ummm, I must mention before I go any further that we did have one problem before the trip really got started. We stayed overnight in St. Paul the night before we left so we could be all refreshed and at the airport early for our 9:30am flight. We got there and discovered a BIG mistake. Word of caution: Read your itinerary closely on any schedule trips to make sure your flying at the right times. There's a big difference between AM and PM flights. We learned that the hard way. Lucky for me and the boys we got on a standy flight just an hour or so after we "thought" our flight was scheduled to leave. John, well, he had to wait in the airport about 9hrs for when the flight was "actually" scheduled to leave because standby was full! This would explain why I got some VERY large charges on the credit card account for the "Cantina" and the "Airport Bar". Needless to say, it was justified and I said not one word! Once we got that major scheduling detail out of the way, all was great!

Here are the boys and I on the Royal Gorge Train. It was great and one of the most fun things we did actually!

Here is John and boys on the suspension bridge above the Royal Gorge! It was amazing! The train we went on was below us in the canyon. It was so breezy and so incredibly high up in the air!

Rylan in this picture is receiving a time out on Pike's Peak Mountain! He was SO mad because I wouldn't let him scale down the mountain at 13,000 ft!!! Mean Mommy!As you can see, Cameron had quite a laugh at locking up his daddy and brother in the jail at Buckskin Joe's! It's an old western town that was really neat to walk through. They even had a little western show complete with a gun fight and hanging! John and Cameron loved it, Rylan cried as soon as the first "gun" and the men were "hollering" at each other. I had to hide out in the candy shop that we were sitting in front of!