An Annual Trip

This past weekend we took a much needed trip to Estes Park.  It was President's Day weekend so the kids had Monday off of school.  We left Saturday morning and came home late Monday afternoon.  Whenever we take trips or do something like this, I usually have two things on my mind.  How much weight am I going to gain and how much money are we going to spend.  I believe I can say we did pretty good on both of those topics. 

We cooked all our food at the condo, not eating out once.  Which helped with both subjects.  Most of the time everyone did whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted.  Took naps, played games, sat in the hot tub, ate snacks, watched tv, etc.  We also went sledding up in Rocky Mountain National Park twice on Sunday.  Once in the morning and once later in the afternoon.  We did some window shopping in Estes in between sledding and Doug and Peyton got their picture taken at one of those old time photo places.  It was fun to watch.  Then we went back to the sledding hill.  It started snowing on us when we were there in the afternoon and it was so pretty.  We were the last to leave the sledding hill as it started getting dark.  We drove home in the dark while it was snowing.  It was actually quite pretty, coming from someone who doesn't like to drive in snow.

Monday morning we got up and had breakfast. Then got our snow gear on and headed into town to get our snowshoes.  We drove up into the park (Rocky Mountain) and found a good snowshoeing trail near a lake.  The wind was blowing really hard, which was blowing all the fresh snow around, and it was about 14 degrees out.  But once we got into the trees it wasn't quite as bad.  We had so much fun and it was the first time any of us had been snowshoeing.  We snowshoed for over two hours!   It's been on my "Bucket List" for a long time...and now I can cross it off...although I'd love to do it more often. 

Between the sledding, walking around down town, Jason and me taking morning walks, and our snowshoing...I didn't gain weight.  And the only money we really spent besides the condo was on Doug and Peyton's photo shoot and renting snowshoes!  I think this weekend was a success. 

We had a great time and are now home to get back to "normal".  The kids are back in school, Jason is off to work, and I'm home putting the house back together and getting laundry done.  Right where I wanna be. 

Life is good!