This is my 5 year old daughter on the left, and her 5 year old cousin on the right. They are so cute together! I'll put a front picture on my other blog. Those of you who regularly make comments, and don't have access, please e-mail me or leave a comment with your e-mail address and I won't publish it. I'd love for you to be able to see all the other pictures as well!
The shipping company delivered all of the HVAC supplies to the wrong place, so hubby won't be able to install them in South Kansas today. It messes up our plans a little bit, but it will give us two extra days with his family, so that was a real blessing! We won't have to split up the girls yet. No matter what, we have to leave Friday morning to head for Colorado, so I guess he'll have to install the heating and air conditioners on our way back from Colorado. That will put us back home later than thought, but I know the Lord does everything for a reason, and right now we are thankful that we will be with family again today instead of in South Kansas!
My back is still giving me trouble, so I'm off to the pool again to loosen it up for the day! My 3 year old woke up with her neck hurting yesterday...so bad that she would scream and cry every time she moved it wrong. I took her to her old doctors office, and they thought it was just a pulled muscle or something like that. I get it all the time from sleeping wrong, but you don't hear it in 3 year olds. We gave her ibuprofen all day and night, and kept one of those thermawraps on it, and she seems much better today so far. I praise God for that! Please keep her in your prayers. If she can't go swimming again soon, she'll be one very unhappy little girl. It was hard yesterday seeing her not able to play with all the other kids at the park. She wants all the time with her cousins that she can get too!
On Saturday, the whole family got together for a picnic at the base of the mountains. This park is maintained by the city of Loveland and is a great historical park. It used to be a power plant but was ruined by a flood. It now has picnic tables, playground equipment, walking paths over bridges and so much more! They have two spots that you can reserve for things to, but we were just doing the "FREE" casual thing! The picture above is the view up the mountain from the park, and below is the sign placed in front of the old generators.
These are the old generators which they have left here in the park. I think it's cool to look at them and think of what was once here. It's amazing what kind of damage water can do...especially when it's running down the mountains at great speed!
This is a neat little nature building. Inside they have glass covered shelves that show local wildlife, insects, trees and etc. They also teach the differences between the North and South facing slopes. Pretty cool stuff!
And, my favorite part of the park is the Big Thompson River that flows right through it! The sound of the water rushing through is so beautiful! If that was right out my bedroom window, I would sleep like a baby every night! The water is so crystal clear and beautiful! Our picnic table was just above this spot on the river, and it was such a lovely lunch!
I can't tell you how hard it was to leave the park, but we were going up to Estes Park and the Summit of the Rocky Mountain National Park, so I was looking forward to that. Those pictures will come soon!
