6 Years and a vacation at home

Today is our 6th wedding anniversary! I'm so thankful for my wonderful husband. He's an amazing man, father, husband and my best friend. Even during the bumpy times he is always patient and loving, never willing to give up. I love you, Brad!

We celebrated by having a calm and relaxing day. In fact the whole weekend has been calm and relaxing! We had planned a camping trip to Rocky Mountain National Park, a Rockies baseball game, an AVP tournament in Boulder, and the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo for this weekend. Sadly, both of our vehicles got sick and we canceled/postponed our trip. The Jetta has been in the shop for almost a month now. They were having a hard time locating the problem and when they did, the one mechanic who could fix it was on vacation and had a backup of other vehicles to work on. Can't wait to see that bill! The Jeep has not been running well either and Brad decided it should get checked out before driving it across the mountains and it turns out there is some problem that I don't understand but was serious enough that we had to leave it with them in the shop.

We had a few vehicles offered to us so we could still go on our trip - thank you to these generous people! - but we decided not to force the issue and take it as a God-thing. Since we had just gone to the cabin I was a little overwhelmed with the unpacking, repacking and meal planning for another trip; plus, all the driving with Cora gets a little daunting so to go drive another 4+ hours made me tired just thinking about it. Since everyone knew Brad was going on vacation it has been very easy to stay home and relax without work tempting him or interrupting our time. It has been a wonderful weekend! We've enjoyed playing games (Ticket to Ride is our newest addition), swimming, riding bikes, and simply being together as a family. I think this type of vacation is exactly what we needed right now! God knew it...we didn't. I guess it took both vehicles going to the mechanics to get our attention and make us slow down! (Please pray that they do get fixed quickly and for minimal fees.)

We'll hopefully still get our camping trip in later this summer. We won't be able to see the AVP tourney unfortunately, but I think everything else will still be available.