Just Mommy and Josie

As we drove up to Vail on Thursday night I began second guessing my decision to go with my dad and brother to their volleyball tournament. Running around Vail with a crazy 15 month old, trying to keep enough sunblock on her, keep her fed and happy, stay in a hotel. My dad means well and he loves us, but helping me with Josie, I knew would not be a priority! It would be two days in the sun with no real baby entertainment. Ahhhhhh why didn't I stay home with my mom. We drove to Frisco, where the hotel was located. As we did, we drove through Breckenridge. Jeff and I lived there for a year right before Josie was born. I really wanted to spend some time there on this trip but with the tournament being the reason we were in the mountains in the first place there would not be possible for me to do so with the one car. In the end I decided not to go to Vail the first day (which is 30 min from out hotel) so we woke up and said good bye to the boys as they headed off to the tournament. After eating doughnuts Josie and I happily discovered Sesame Street was on T.V. and that's Josie's happy face behind the paci!

Then we headed outside the hotel to the bus stop. I remembered from when we lived here how easy it is to get around Summit County on the FREE bus system. While we waited for the bus we read the FREE Summit Daily, where we found a coupon for lunch later and found out what the weather would be. Here we are on the bus, the only pic of me that day! The route the bus travels has not changed at all and I got to see allot of the same sights I had when I lived here. The hospital where I first saw Josie's heartbeat! The High School Jeff coached baseball, the Middle School I coached cheer. The bike and hiking trails Jeff I spent allot of the summer on! I was sad for Jeff (at home in KS working) but excited to see it all again with Josie. This was also the place where I had my very painful miscarriage. Having Josie there in my arms while having the painful memories was something back then I could never have imagined happening!.
Jeff had a wonderful job in Breck with people he really cared about who really loved him. Josie and I stopped by to say hello, I know they would have loved to see Jeff but well lets face it Josie made up for him not being with us ;)

Josie fave thing to do is slide, so we are always on the look out for a new one to try. This one is in the middle of town next to the Blue River. There are pretty views and lots of kids playing make believe. It is a great place to people watch! UMMM here we are at lunch at Rasta Pasta. I knew it was the perfect place. They have great food (Josie loves noodles and chicken or bak,bak as she says) great prices (even better with the coupon always in the paper) a very friendly staff, and doggies hang out. What a fun lunch.
After lunch we to Mt. Top Childrens Mueseum. A great place to bring kids to play. They have a tot spot, arts and crafts, dress up with a stage to preform, electronics, experiments. I also worked for their day camp the summer I found out I was pregnant with Jos. It was fun to catch up on the lives of some of the kids I worked with two years ago. We played there for two hours.
Right outside the meuseum is this view. WoW we lived steppes away from this view (just behind the trees on the left)! I got to see this everyday! Look at the ski runs, winter here is fun but summer is just so beautiful!
Josie wanted to stick her feet in the water. Until she felt how cold it was!
After the cold water we headed for the bus and back to the hotel. What a fun and special day for us! We spent about 6 hours on our adventure and by the end we were tired. The weekend was long and exusting but what a blessing to spend time with my teeny tiny!