Category: Events

After being in San Felipe for 2 weeks we crossed back over to the states for our oldest’s doctors appointment in Yuma.  Crossing the border is always a bit different getting back into the USA than it is entering Mexico..

I took a little break from blogging because frankly, I was feeling pretty miserable and overwhelmed with the new needs our family had to be a functional, loving and supportive family with a kiddo with a broken leg.  Every time I sat down to write I only had negative words pouring from my fingertips so I decided to take a hiatus until our family got to a more positive place.  

The Fulltime Families Rally of 23 other families was a bit overwhelming to say the least.  This was our first rally so we didn’t really know what to expect.  I knew before we arrived that they had some kids crafts and games scheduled as well as parent discussion group times and group potlucks.  I was looking forward to some structure with someone else planning activities.  I love creating crafts for the girls but the escalated needs of the family as a whole had increased recently and I was ready for a break.

This was a long, traumatic, painful and sad bunch of days.  It all started when we wanted to help celebrate Christmas with some events while we were in Tucson.  We had found a couple festivals to attend but all were after 3pm so we wanted to find a place where the girls could play in the meantime.  

Oh Country Fair!  We had wanted to go to this festival for years but didn’t think the girls were old enough to walk on their own feet for that long so we had passed. We finally did it this year and it was like a Renaissance Faire mixed with Burning Man and a hippie concert.  It was fun!

We have been wanting to attend a Renaissance Faire for years but never felt ready for it costume wise and didn’t feel good about going to it without some solid medieval costumes. Well, this year we prepped! By prepped I mean Justin was my continuous reminder to make family costumes for the faire; in a good way of course.

Once upon a time, Justin and I went to this very event prior to having kids.  We had a blast and thought it would a fun event to bring kiddos to.  However, for one reason or another, we didn’t make it to the event with the girls until now.  

Since we were going to be on the road for Christmas, one of our good friends’ Mom, who lives in Colorado, so very graciously invited us to spend Christmas with the whole family (including our dear dear friends from Portland of course). We knew this was going to add a lot of long driving days to our trip but also couldn’t bear to be so close to them and not spend the holiday with them.