We’re Back!!!

Paisley and I have finally returned to Columbus!!  It was a nice, long visit to Whitehouse but it also feels good to be home.

I don’t think I could EVER get enough kisses from Karsyn (which she says she saved for me!! seriously has there ever been a sweeter child?) and enough attitudey faces from Conley!

Camy and Caeden only got to stay for the weekend I was first home but I loved those 2 short days!! Camy is CRAZY GOOD at Memory (my stocking stuf….excuse me, Santa’s stocking stuffer to her at Christmas- of course in the Dora version!)- that girl beat EVERYONE in our house, and some of us (not going to name any names) MULTIPLE times!!  Like honestly, you can play your hardest and it doesn’t matter, she WILL beat you and not just beat you but SMASH you!!!  In our closest game of the weekend, she beat me by 7 pairs!!!  Caeden is like a weed or maybe more like a brick! Either way that kid has GROWN!!!! He just doesn’t look like my lil baby nephew you anymore!  He’s a grown up 6, almost 7, year old!! AHHHH!!!

Ashlyn and I lived and breathed cheerleading from Sunday to Thursday, with the help of Miss Jenny (Thank you!) and boy did it pay off!! Ashlyn is now a 2009-2010 WJH Cheerleader!!! I am soo soo proud of her! She honestly blew me away the first day we started working.  She hasn’t cheered since 2004 (I believe) and yet still had “it”!   We did a lil tweaking and she was simply stellar!! Obviously the judges agreed =)  Holy moly, I just realized it was exactly a decade ago that I was an 8th grade cheerleader!! SCARRRYYYY!! Back then it was HMS though! haha!! GO 1999-2000 squad! =)

Now, I did of course make time for Marshall’s, almost daily! =)  The result….

After unloading my car!!

I’m still working on getting all of it arranged so more pics to come later but when i finished unloading and walked into this monstrosity, I couldn’t help but take a picture!! It’s laughable how much I pulled out of that car! =)

Ok, now on to my trip to Colorado to see the hubs!!  On my way there, my flight from Dallas to Colo. Springs had to be turned around and sent back to Dallas bc our fuel pump quit working and we didn’t have enough gas getting to the plane to make it to Colo. Springs! UGHHH! We ended up sitting at the gate for TWO HOURS while they worked on it.  Luckily, I still got there before J was released so I didn’t miss any time with him!  Enough of that, on to pics of our wonderful weekend!!

Headed to Cave of the Winds

It was a tad sunny!

Scary bear!

But apparently not to Justin

Checking out some rocks!

Just in case you missed what J was looking at...there are some stalagtites up there!

Tight fit!?

That's an 8 foot stalagtite behind him!!! Can you imagine how long that took to form????

Another tight squeeze!

Early the next morning at the Cog Rail

Our train climbing Pikes Peak

Our view at the top!

Our only outdoor pic due to -15* winds @ 35 mph!!! It hurt to say the least!!

And finally, we had lunch in a KC-97. The fuselage had been turned into a restuarant!

Justin had to share the cockpit with Dillon- boy, he was something else!!!

But then his spaghetti was ready so Tanner was able to join!

Well I think that about covers our weekend!  We did go to The Famous Steak House in Colo. Springs and it was FABULOUS but I don’t have any pics! =(  We also drove through Garden of the Gods but again no pics.

I do have a new video of the furbaby to leave you with.  I must first provide the following disclaimer- I was watching her closely and I swear to never let my human babies do this!  I have already gotten a lecture from her father on this being “another bad habit” and “very dangerous bc she could easily choke”! PPPhhhpptt on that- sometimes you gotta just pick up the camera and laugh!! Granted, I missed the best part picking up my camera!! Oh well…hope you enjoy this as much as I did!