Pagosa Springs, CO

 My side of the family (the Chapman side) had a suuuuuuper fun time in Pagosa Springs, CO. Have you ever heard of Pagosa Springs? Ya, we hadn't either. But it was such a fun place! Small town feel, but still had a lot of fun stuff to offer. We stayed at condo that were like the size of a house. It had 4 condos in one little building, plus 2 of the 4 connected. It was such a perfect set up. So each family had their own condo. One of the days we went to New Mexico (it was only an hour away) to ride a train.....all day......with 9 kids.....ages 5 and under. I wasn't too thrilled, but it was sooooo fun!  We rode the train for about 2 hours and stopped at  a place that had lunch waiting for us. Then we rode it for another 3 hours. The kids were FAN FREAKING TASTIC! Even the workers on the train were shocked with how great our herd of kids were.

 Check out our cute boys! Jacob and Ray will soon be BFF's. I think it's engraved in little boy DNA to love trains. The moment the whistle blew on the train Ray started to make the same toot. After we got back from our train adventure Ray was out cold. Brian was trying to get him in the car and the train whistle started again. He sat up from a limp sleep and started hooting along with the train again. So funny!

 Gotta do some mini putt!

 We went to some hot springs while we were there. (since their is "springs" in the name, you need to experience some.) We thought the kids would last a few hours, but we stayed for about 5 hours! They were in heaven. They have a few hot springs that are 110 degrees! All the guys were challenging each other to sit in the "Lobster Tank" (110 degrees!) then sit in the river (about 40 degrees) that was going through the place, then you have to sit back in the lobster tank. Matt said he wouldn't respect me unless I did it. So naturally I had to do it! It wasn't a great experience, but I did it!

It was nice going from Disneyland (a very go go go trip) to a nice relaxing trip. I really needed it! The kids were great, they never fought, they shared really well, and they had so much time to play and get some really good cousin time in. I couldn't get pictures of this, but we also had a glow in the dark party. I bought a bunch of dollar store glow wands and we danced for about an hour in the dark. It was pretty epic. :)