Yesterday turned out to be a really long day, a fun day, but a long day. Let me first begin by telling you all that last Saturday Logan, Reid and I finally went to the store and bought new furniture for our family room. We have had such a hard time deciding on what to get becau
se everything we liked was WAY out of our price range and all of the stuff we could afford wasn't what we were looking for. Anyway we found something we liked and went for it. I mean what are taxes for if we can't spend it mindlessly??? Well we found these o
ttoman cubes that we loved but they only had one and the closest place that any more was Colorado Springs. You guessed it. Reid and I drove to Colorado Springs to get more. Along with a trip to get these great little cubes I decided it would be fun to take Reid on a train ride. If any of you are familiar with Colorado, you would know that there is a great tra
in ride in the Royal Gorge about one hour away from Colorado Springs. I went not knowing that it was another hour away. So we get our cubes and head to the train thinking it would be a twenty minute drive. I called to get our tickets ahead of time only to find out that I still had another thirty minutes or more of a drive to get to our destination. Also not a plus was t
he fact that there are only certain times the train runs and we were going to miss the 12:30 train and have to wait for the 3:30 train. What in world do you do in a town that I did not research on?? If that is the case, you play at the train station for two hours until the train arrives to take you along the Royal Gorge. They had a Thomas train set, all kinds of other trains, toys, books and even
a playground outside. It was a long two hours but finally the train came and Reid was so excited. Totally worth the wait. The train ride was a total of two hours. We sat in the car for most of the ride but took a quick break from the air conditioning to go out onto the open car and feel the fresh air and see the beautiful mountains. It was a pretty ride and Reid just loved being on a train. Finally it was ti
me to drive the three hours home. I am still trying to recover from staying up late finally making my curtains in the family room and then taking a long road trip the the Royal Gorge. I think Reid is feeling it a little too. He is moody!! Anyway, it was a fun day and the new furniture looks great and trains a huge part of conversation. It was all worth it!!
(This is Reid hearing the train coming!)
(These are the beautiful mountains and you can barely see the water line that was used from 1908-1973 (not totally positive on the dates) in the city of Canon.)
So all of the preparation and stress payed off. I had so much fun!! The girls in my ward are absolutely amazing. I loved every minute of this past week. It was full of laughing, walking, spiritual moments and games. I taught the girls kick the can and it was a huge hit. They kept wanting to play it every night. Unfortunately we only got to play it the one night so we will have to wait until next year to play
again... I only took pic
tures once because I didn't want to carry around my camera the whole time, so these are from our last night roasting marsh mellows. We had testimony meeting before that and then sat around our hot coals, made s'mores and sang hymns and songs from the children's songbook. Then when that was all done I gave the girls their letters from their parents and they were crying before they 
had even read them. It was really sweet. Then as if that wasn't a packed full evening, one of the leaders up there came up with the idea of washing the girls feet for them. She has some smelly soap and we heated water and went around to the three tents and read the scripture about when the Savior washed his disciples feet. They ate it up. They also had very dirty feet!! Anyway, it was so great and I learned so much about myself, the gospel and the importance of women. I hope the girls got as much if not more out of camp!!
