The Latest

Well, I haven't been on here in a while!!  A lot has been going on in the past few weeks.  For about 1/2 a week me and the fam took a camping road-trip all the way to Colorado!!  It was crazy, spontaneous, challenging, and fun!!
    We left on Wednesday morning (October 26th) and drove all the way to Logan, New Mexico.  We packed everything we thought we'd need in the truck....it was packed full!

We stayed in a tent that night at a campsite near Lake Ute, NM.  We always got electrical sites because we had a small space heater for our tent and we stayed SO toasty!!  This is what we woke up to the next morning...

It was so beautiful!!  But as beautiful as it was, it got our stuff wet.  So we packed up (as the snow was still coming down...hard) and we put all the stuff that couldn't get wet in the back seat of the truck and all the stuff that could get wet in the bed of the truck and headed out!  We drove to Sante Fe & found a campsite in the mountains there.

BEAUTIFUL:

  Since our stuff was wet and we didn't have time to dry it out before nightfall my amazingly handy husband made us a "tent" in the bed of the truck!  It was SO cozy...despite my skepticism!  Here's a look at our "home":

Then the next morning we took off to Colorado!! The first site of "the-real-thing" mountains was beautiful!

We stopped to do a little hike to see a waterfall....

I had Aiven in the moby wrap under my jacket!!  We didn't get to see the falls though because you had to walk through the water on ice-covered rocks to get to it...but it was still so fun - Aiven loved it!

Then we headed to Salida, Colorado to stay the night in a hotel - which felt awesome!!  Then the next day we made the long treck back home to Texas...but saw plenty of beauty on the way:

:-)

So that was our fun, spontaneous family camping road trip!!

Then when we got back....Aiven had to have surgery on his hernia that he's had since he was about 4 weeks old.  It was really difficult to see him go through it...but James and I were trusting the Lord...that's all you can do in those types of situations.  It was really hard seeing him crying and out of it after he woke up from surgery...it took us a while to get him calmed down enough to go to sleep.  Then the rest of the day at home all he did was sleep and when he woke up he just cried.  But after that first day he recovered great!!  He slept a lot (mostly b/c of the medication) but when he was awake, he was his old smiley self!!  He's been doing great and we are so thankful that he is well.  :-) 

So that's the latest!! Hopefully I will post more frequently and consistently!!