Life with Boys {Colorado Edition}

Before:After:

I love having boys. I just spend the last 10 days straight with these two characters and was left wanting more. Don’t misunderstand, I had a few many break downs along the way but I’m blown away from how much I enjoy spending time with them. They are really cool (BUSY) people. They are hilarious and enjoyable. 

I found a bit more of myself with them- starting seeing some weakness in myself I forgot I had. Working full time… I have lost a bit of my patience, I simply had not been with them that much for a long time. I was constantly amazed at the well of patience that Ben had to draw from as well as appreciated his mechanic ability when thing after thing kept happening to our car.

Sometimes I feel like they are already grown and gone! I want to cherish EVERY MOMENT with them as they are young and the way that they are today. I kept regrouping (sometimes with teeth gritted!) to love the moments, even when they weren’t vacation perfect.  Like when…

• Our radiator was acting up… again and again and they were (loudly and clearly) annoyed sitting in the car.
• the 53rd time (oh yes, we kept track…) they asked, “are we in Colorado yet?”
• We kept stopping to check the heat of the rear axel and add more … oil or something.  (Whatever you add to that part of a car.)
• We kept stopping to take small bladders to pee. (no comment on how many times we just let them pee on the side of a highway…)
• The chipmunk didn’t eat all the nuts out of Bear’s hand and he freaked out on a hike and pretty much had a crummy attitude the rest of the way. 
• When our rear hatch wouldn’t open…or when the seatbelt in the back got jammed…or when we forgot to get ice for the ice chest and lost some food. 
• The sweet lil boys kept getting close to the edge of EVERY drop off again and again even though I nearly went hoarse telling them to back thefrick up. 
• They fought over who got to sing Frozen- and which of them was Anna and Elsa. (hand slapped to forehead)
• I sat in the back seat them for days and days ah-hem hours while my brother rode shotgun the days he was with us. 

It really was a great time. Having family that you love and miss is a treasure and I felt so blessed to even be able to take a vacation. I really don’t take it for granted.  I’m so thankful that we were able to take one to go see my sister, brother, brother in law and sweet nephew and also be able to take a few days in the mountains. There were so many epic, beautiful and enjoyable scenes but sometimes it’s in the tears, frustrations and anger that we make the best memories.