A Thanksgiving Getaway

We went to Colorado for Thanksgiving to visit Scott's family. It was a nice getaway that went by way too fast!

Here's Haylee looking adorable on the loooong ride up there.

The Horsies
Don't tell Papa.....
So cute!
We decided to drive to Colorado Springs for a day and venture up to the top of Pike's Peak. It was amazing! We are not afraid of heights normally, but the drive up the mountain was scary! The roads have no gaurd rails and there is about a foot of dirt on the side of the very skinny road and then a huge drop off. It was freaky! Its about a 45 minute drive to the top, the first half is a super easy drive but the second half is constant scary switchbacks all the way to the top. But we made it!
At the top there is an amazing view and a gift shop. We checked out the shop first and about 2 minutes into our shopping we all started feeling the onset of altitude sickness. We looked around and started noticing everyone in there seemed very unsteady and growing sicker. I didn't think it would affect us but it sure did! So we got out of there, checked out the view, snapped some pictures and left! We were up there maybe 20 mins before we decided it was too cold and too hard to breath! The view was amazing though, it was like being outside of an airplane. Worth the drive up! The crazy roads going back down. The drive down was not bad at all because we were on the inside of the road instead of hugging the edge!

The peak we just came from

My two snuggle bugs Thanksgiving Day
Haylee's first Thanksgiving! My favorite Thanksgiving food, a smoked turkey leg.

Yes, its that good!

The kiddos running around

Rylee in action! She was so cute running around outside!

The day we left we woke up to this!! Figures it snowed the day we had to leave! We decided to leave later in the morning so we could enjoy the snow.

This was Haylee's first time in the snow! She looked so funny bundled up in Rylee's old snowsuit! It was just a tad big!

Grammie and the Girls

Talk about last minute snow suits!