Last Weekend was Awesome!!!

Even though we just had Troy's parents visit, we were lucky enough to have my parents come two days later. For Troy's birthday in September, my parents had promised to watch Erica for a weekend so we could get away and snowboard. That was supposed to happen at Christmas time, but we got sick and hardly left the house. So, we moved it to the last weekend in January.

My parents came to our house and we made the drive to the White Mountains in north-eastern Arizona. It was a beautiful 5-6 hour drive and without a baby, it was the easiest thing in the world. We left early Friday morning and snowboarded a half day on Friday afternoon. Then we snowboarded almost the entire day on Saturday. I wore out by the last hour, but Troy pushed through to the end. He knows these opportunities are few and far between since having Erica. We stayed the night, then left Sunday morning. It was seriously the greatest trip. The weather was beautiful, the snowboarding was fun and the baby-free weekend was wonderful.

This was the first time I have been away from Erica overnight. I was a little worried about how she would do, but she did fine. In fact, I think she was sad to see us come home after being spoiled by my parents. I did get to talk to her on the phone a couple times a day and I think that helped...me more than her. She learned that if she got my mom's cell phone and then signed/said "mama", then my mom would call me. What a smart baby!! (: More posts to come on my parents' visit.