Vacation Dreams

So I know summer is over, but I am still dreaming of the vacation that we didn't really take. While we can't really afford an expensive vacation, I always dream of the expensive places.

So here are a few of the places I dream of going on vacation to...

The first place is Bora Bora



That just looks like heaven to me. I'm not sure I would ever return home if I got to go there. So besides the finances, there's one little issue...my husband doesn't want to go there. And why not? He says because it's. in. the. middle. of. nowhere. A tiny spec in the middle of a vast ocean. He says one bad storm could wipe us out. I'm ok with this, atleast I would've died happy!

And where else do I want to go? I want to go to Atlantis in the Bahamas.




Again, another piece of heaven. I think I'd go clean hotel rooms just to live there.


And the third place that I like to dream about would be Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

This place just looks absolutely beautiful.

And then there is this place that I heard about and figured the kids would just absolutely love it..

This is a tree house hotel. It would be the tree house the kids never had all packed into a vacation adventure.

If I got the chance to do atleast one of these in my lifetime, then it would definately be Bora Bora. I'll just have to figure out a way to get a prescribed medicine for my tough husband so he will be a willing participant...

Whiskey Row

What a fun day today was. All the kids were in school and I was originally supposed to go with my man to the dentist. Well the dentist's office was kind enough to call him as we were leaving the house to cancel his appointment. This was a whole 15 minutes before his appointment. This is the second time they have done this. Great customer service!

So..instead of the dentist my husband decided to still take the day off of work and we took a trip up north the Prescott instead. We had a nice drive up there, and it was a good 10 degrees cooler than home.

We had a nice time looking through the shops and laughing at the funny sayings on some of the signs for sale. We bought a few things...my man bought a new cowboy hat and I bought a picture of p!nk.


And then we stopped in a shop that takes those old time photos. Oh what fun! While I couldn't get my husband to play along and take two of the poses that I thought were the funniest, which was one of him splayed out on the bar table passed out drunk with me standing behind him like I had just whacked him with a whiskey bottle, and the other was him shirtless in a tub and me sitting beside the tub with him looking like he's hollering and raising heck and me again giving him a look like if ya don't shut it then I'm gonna whack you with this whiskey bottle. So while we didn't get those poses, here is what we did get...

I believe that these may be the only pics like this that we ever get taken, as it costed us over $70 for the ones we purchased. Probably not though, because I really do like doing this. I get them taken every year at the state fair when I take my kids.













Once done with the pics we stopped for lunch and then hit DQ on the drive back home. Yum. I'm like a psycho hunting dog when it comes to spotting DQ's. HEY. DQ. STOP. TURN. NOW. NOW. NOW! AWW...GOT IT!

Goodbye Colorado

Ok, yep, it's official...I LOVE COLORADO! So very beautiful it is, and the temps are definately different than here in AZ. I wore shorts/pants in the daytime there and sweats at night. The low's there got down to the low 40's, our lows here in AZ I believe haven't gone lower than the 80's for summer.

It seemed like it didn't take any time at all to get to Pagosa Springs in Colorado, but realistically it took just over 8 hours. Time really can fly when you're having fun. We had three kiddos in the back seat, my two daughters and my friend Charlene's daughter, Chantelle. They were absolutely excellent for the trip. We took many things to keep them busy...and it didn't quite work out like expected though. Alyssa forgot her charger for her DS game and it died about half way there. Taylor has a DIDJ handheld learning game, it has to be hooked up to the computer sometimes to be updated. Well wouldn't you know that it would require this about a half an hour into the drive. They also had a portable dvd player from our friend Chelsea, but it also lost charge, but atleast that wasn't until the trip home. So Chantelle's little learning computer is the only thing that survived the whole trip.

We didn't really do much sightseeing since we weren't there for very long and had the baby shower to attend. We did take a little tour of the shops in Pagosa Springs. We really would have enjoyed going to the Hot Springs, but just got a picture of it instead.

The baby shower was good and different at the same time. It's the first baby shower that I have ever been to where we ate first, and then Cassie opened her gifts for the baby boy, and then...we all went to the lake.

Miss Cassie Mack opened her gifts

Mother/Daughter moment

Elaine and Cassie

My daughter Alyssa, niece Chantelle and daughter Taylor

The kids were the only crazy ones to get into the cold water!

My friend Charlene and I bunked together in the same room, and I tell you we were like little school girls all over again. I think part of it was due to our exhaustion. That and Charlene's ears were plugged up the whole time from the elevation change, so we all had to get used to her hearing a completely different conversation than what were we actually talking about. It was very amusing. I think while everyone else was completely exhausted and went directly to sleep, the kids included, Charlene and I were the only ones laying in bed (actually a palette on the floor, but let's just pretend it was a fluffy bed) and talking for a while more. We ended up laughing so hard we had a constant stream of tears running down our faces. Now I'd like to share with everyone what we were laughing about, but I really don't remember. I think it was delirious laughter that was telling us we needed some sleep.

Myself and Charlene, this was at Sonic on the way home

So we all had a very good trip. I would love to post a pic of my friend Alison that went with us, but she really hates having her pic taken, she literally got mad at me since I kept snapping some of her, of course, that still didn't stop me. Memories...Hellloooo!

Goodbye to Colorado.

The lovely view from Cassie and Shane's front porch

Goodbye to silly Shane and all the laughter and smiles he brings

Goodbye to Taylor and Chantelle running around together...

Goodbye to Chelsea and Alyssa telling Taylor and Chantelle to go and hide for some good old hide and go seek...and then Chelsea and Alyssa going and hiding themselves...and then about 10 minutes later Taylor coming out to ask where Alyssa is and me telling her that Alyssa and Chelsea are hiding...and Taylor giving me this look and stating "but we're supposed to be hiding". Very funny moment there. So the adults had approximately 10 minutes of quiet time while the kids were hiding and not seeking.

Goodbye Colorado, until we meet again!