Everything Happens for a Reason

Yes, I am really going to try to blog, AGAIN.  As many of you know, I post photos to Facebook almost daily and I also have my Instagram account.  I love Facebook and Instagram, but sometimes I feel like writing more about our adventures and not just posting pictures of where and what we have been doing. 

The reason for the title of this blog, is that I have been really thinking lately about how and why things have been happening the way they have been happening.  Our plan for this Winter was to spend January through March in Arizona.  This is what we have been doing for the past three or four years.  We love Arizona in the Winter~ We love the hiking, the mountain biking, kayaking, spending time with all of our friends and spending time with Lois.  We knew we wanted to come back in February to meet our new granddaughter.  Our plan was to come back to Colorado and meet Louisa and spend time with all of our kids and grand kids.  So, that is what we did.  Unfortunately, while we were home, Steve started having what he thought were more heart issues.  After a trip to the ER and then 24 hours in the hospital, we still didn't know what was going on.  Long story short, it turned out NOT to be his heart, but it took a few weeks to figure that out.  We went back to Arizona and since he was still having problems, we decided we needed to come home and see his cardiologist in Colorado Springs. 

We have now been home for almost three weeks.  Buena Vista has received LOTS of snow.  We are loving being home.  We have spent hours hiking, snowshoeing and enjoying the beauty of this place we get to call home.  We have been able to go visit the kids and grand kids again.  Today we went cross country skiing up in Leadville with a neighbor.  Steve & I can't remember the last time we cross country skied, but it was MANY moons ago.  We loved it!  It was beautiful.  We can't wait to go again.  Now we just have to buy skis, boots and poles, because we no longer have the old ones we had so long ago. 

We are SO lucky that we live in Colorado, but we love the fact that we can travel in our Arctic Fox trailer.  We love camping in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. 

We are looking forward to having all our kids and grand kids visit us in March.  Spring Break is just around the corner and we are hoping to see all of them here at our house. 

Oh, I forgot to mention how much we are enjoying our yoga classes at Peak Fitness and our water yoga classes at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs.  Are we bored in Buena Vista?  Never!  Sometimes I wish there were more hours in the day! 

Then....  A BIG Adventure for Steve and me, from April 16-May 15, when we spend a month in Perth, Australia with our daughter, Rebecca and Antonio.  We haven;t seen them for almost two years!