Evergreen

The week between Christmas and New Years was a crazy time at our house. Tommy was working, we had 9 showings on the house and one home appraiser here, I had strep throat, Gracyn had pink eye, we spent one night at the mountains, and one night at a friends for New Year's Eve. We are ready to have the house sold, ready for the girls' weekly schedule to start back up, and ready for some normalcy!!!

Wanting to take advantage of Colorado while we are still here, we headed out the day after Christmas to take a trip to the mountains. We stayed at a hotel in Evergreen. The town has a 55 acre lake that freezes over and is used for ice skating in winter. We knew the girls would love it, and we were excited to see some snow, since this crazy warm winter had at that point provided NONE (I am not complaining!).

This is Tommy and our friend from Texas, Jeremy McFarland! So crazy, but we ran into them at the pond. They are in town with her parents visiting family. I knew they were coming, but never expected to see them. That was a fun treat.
Reagan loves skating....notice we didn't find much snow in the mountains, and it wasn't even cold enough for the kids to want jackets. Beautiful day!!!

Daddy and his girls skating on the lake.

Don't let this picture fool you. I was really just starting to feel bad (strep diagnosis came the next day) and Gracyn was being a pill! Poor girl got woken up from a 30 min car nap when we got here. We finally found some popcorn at a concession stand that changed her outlook on life.

After skating, we headed to Beau Jo's for some famous mountain pizza....yummy! Later we swam in the hotel pool and played in the room. Gracyn used her markers to color the hotel bedspread, which they later billed me $125 for. Thankfully after a phone call assuring them it was washable, they indeed washed it out and refunded my money! We won't be packing markers on any future trips.

Monday morning, I stayed huddled in bed, while Tommy took the girls out hiking. We then skipped our plan of going farther west and tubing in the snow, and headed home for me to see the doctor. In between all that, we had 4 showings on the house! Tommy played with the girls at Monkey Buziness and the park, while I slept in the car. Definitely an eventful 2 days!