Colorado Springs

For over a year now Jake has been working on a project at Fort Carson Army Base in Colorado Springs. It's finally started to get towards the end, and the company decided to send Jake out there to follow up with some things. So one day, a Thursday I believe, Jake called me from work and asked if I wanted to pack up the kids and head to Colorado Springs. We have been dying to get out of the house this winter, we've had so much snow, and been so cold, and we are sick of being inside! So I agreed. The only catch was we were leaving the next day! So we packed up everything and left Friday night. They had some materials that needed to be taken out there so we had to drive so we could take the stuff with us. We decided driving through the night would be better than the day. And boy am I glad we did. It was about 2 hours of driving before Emery fell asleep, and I am pretty sure I would've dropped her on the side of the road if she had been awake the whole time! Not really..but seriously it made the ride much nicer when both kids were asleep. We got to Colorado Springs at about 5am on Saturday morning and checked into the hotel. We were so impressed with our hotel! We had called the day before and told them we wouldn't be there until about 5. Well the guy that we talked to made breakfast and had it all ready and waiting for us at 5 when we got there so we could eat and go to sleep without having to worry about getting up while they were serving breakfast. It was so nice. Unfortunately though, Emery and Macie did sleep the whole drive...so after about 2 hours of sleep at the hotel they were both up and ready to go, not caring that their parents had been up all night! So we got ready and headed out for the day, Jake had to go to the job site so I just took the kids to the mall and we shopped all. day. long. It was fun. They were really really good and just hung out in the stroller while I drug them around the whole mall. We mostly just hung out all day. After Jake got done we took the girls to take a nap at the hotel, and we took a nap! Then we took Emery swimming and had some Mexican for dinner. 

On Sunday morning we woke up, got ready, had breakfast, and headed out of for the day. Jake didn't have to work at all this day so we could do what we wanted. First off we went to Jake's first house. He was born in Colorado Springs and this is the house they lived in, so we went to see it! My personal favorite is the flames on the garage ;) haha just kidding. Those are new addition Jake says. 

After that we went to the Garden of the Gods visitor center and through the Garden of the Gods. It was pretty cool, nothing compared to Moab and the red rocks of Utah though. 

Emery did enjoy running around on them and throwing rocks though. 

After that we went to Mantua and grabbed some lunch and went to a park to eat. We were just soaking up the nice weather. It was at least 50 degrees the whole time we were there, and it felt oh so good. So nice to just be able to be outside! That night we ordered dinner in to our hotel and just hung out there. Let Emery go swimming some more, and watched TV. It was really nice to just relax. 

Monday Jake had to go to the job site again. The girls and I went to lunch and bummed around and he finished in not too long. Then we started our long journey home. The girls were awake for most of that drive though. 

Overall it was a good trip. Colorado Springs definitely wasn't the most exciting place I've ever been. There really isn't much there in the way of tourism. We would have liked to go do a tour at Air Force Academy but the schedule just didn't work out that way. But it was nice to be out of the house, warm, and together as a family! Which with how much Jake has been working lately is sometimes rare. Thank goodness for weekends though!