Holiday Rush

With the holidays right around the corner Bryan and I decided to take a furlough (vacation) to regroup not only with each other and with Eli but also with God. We have been running ourselves silly far a while now…I am sure most of it was me; getting ready for Eli, then Eli came, then work and it has just been non-stop.   So we left for Montana on November 7^th and will return November 14^th.  We figured this would be a nice break before the holiday rush starts

Eli took his first airplane ride and did so well. He slept a lot of the flight but did not cry much at all. When he did it was mostly hunger…which he happens to be quite a lot lately. Bryan would walk him over to the window to look at the planes in the airport and Elijah would get excited.  We like to think he was getting excited over the airplanes; like father – like son.

As this is being written, we are here sitting in our cabin, reading and watching out the window and waiting for a bear or some sort of wild life to approach are back porch. Montana is truly a piece of God’s splendor.  The mountains are amazing!!! Our cabin is located just 30 min from Glacier Park.  We are a little bummed because we forgot our passports and could have gone to Canada as we are not far from there at all (although, Eli still needs to get one). Oh well, maybe next time. When we arrived Friday night we ran to the store and got a couple of things so we could make dinner, while Bryan was at the store I waited with Eli in the Cabin and received a phone call that went something along these lines…

            “Honey, we are definitely in the NORTH”- BB

            “Why is that?”- LB

            “Because they don’t have corn bread here and have NO IDEA what grits are”- BB

            “HAHAHA! Oh my goodness, I did not even think of that…no worries just get what you can”- LB

The next day we ventured to the grocery store to stock up for the week, prepared for the northerner’s type of store, ha! We got what we needed and headed home. Sunday, we drove over to Glacier Park to get our park pass for the week and check things out.  So far the temp’s have been in the high 45 and lowest has been in the 30’s. So it is not so bad. We have had lots of rain and no snow as of yet.  Hopefully we will get some before we head home. We went in through the west entrance of the park today and drove pretty far. Most of the forest had been burned at some point in the early 2000’s. It was really sad.

On the way home we needed to stop at the store because I needed 2 tablespoons of sugar for a pie I was going to make…who sells 2 tablespoons of sugar, really? So I decided to buy a SWEET TEA from McDonalds and then bring some sugar packets home with me…oh yeah, they don’t have sweet tea, we are in the NORTH. Come on, we need to teach these Northerners a little about sweet tea. I still bought tea…but it was unsweet.  (Check out the picture below, only a McDonald’s with ski slopes around them would have this sign, too funny!)

Monday-we were going to head back to the park for some hiking and or driving but none of us got any sleep. Eli has come down with a nasty cold…stuffy as all get out and all he has done is cry. We were up ALL NIGHT long.  If he is not sleeping, he is crying. And he is only sleeping about 30 min at a time. This is really out of his element to cry this much. So we opted to stay in today, relax, read and veg out so maybe Eli could get a little better. As the day has gone on, we feel that we made the best decision.  It has been a long day of tears and sniffles.   More to come, when we can get internet…until then, we will be RELAXING and enjoying our majesty’s creation all around us.