thomas tikis: Spring Break in Colorado

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Spring Break in Colorado

The first half of our Spring Break happened to be General conference. So it worked out perfectly for us to sneak away for a couple of days and take Dan with us. Thankfully he came willingly :)

We always take the girls’ bikes down to my parents’ because they have an awesome driveway. I loved watching Dan fix the bikes and had the girls help. He is such a good Dad.

Our General Conference consisted of lots of coloring and uplifting words by prophets. How I love the Prophets! I came away from Conference knowing what I wanted to focus my family towards for the next little while and I also felt ready to take on what’s next. I also felt I needed to add a little more faith in my life too.

In between sessions was Studio C. Another favorite of our family’s!

When the boys came home from Priesthood my Dad was talking about the word of the year and had no idea what a “selfie” was. So I showed him. So great!

The cuddling with Banka was a favorite too. He sure loves his girls!

If I spoke in conference, I would dread getting called to speak in the afternoon session on Sunday. It is when osmosis is supposed to happen, I guess.

Brookie sure loves Suzie doll… my baby doll from when I was her age.

The girls LOVE doing Mima’s dishes. Don’t you love Abi’s hair clip?

Board games are a must as well-

And spending time at Banka’s Papa Murphy’s store. We got lucky and showed up during cookie dough time… yum!

The morning we left, we headed up to Grand Junction to Colorado National Monument and hiked. We did a trail called No Thoroughfare. Sounds terrible huh? It was a great hike and it was GORGEOUS weather. It took us longer than planned but was such a wonderful afternoon well spent.

When all else fails, throw a fit in the dirt.

The first stop was at the pond- and of course, Dan had to jump in. I have come to expect these things. What I didn’t expect was the episode of Abi slipping and falling straight on a cactus after this. We pulled lots of pokies out of her legs and such. It made me sad and I can’t say she did great during that, but she came back quickly afterwards.