This weekend MC, Teagan, & I went away to the Rocking Horse Ranch with my parents, sister and her family to celebrate my dad’s upcoming 70th birthday. It was the first trip away together since my mom’s 65th birthday in Wildwood. I worked a half a day at home Friday so we could head up in the afternoon. I am glad I did. the rid up took almost 3 hours with traffic. We ended up changing our route a few times and we stopped for 45 minutes at a diner to be able to feed Teagan.
It was raining most of the day and we were just glad to get to the place. Carrie and the kids didn’t arrive till later than us so MC, Teagan and I ate dinner with my dad and my mom waited to have dinner with Carrie. Nothing else really eventful happened Friday.
Saturday it was rainy all day. We got up and went to breakfast after Teagan had her morning bottle. The food was pretty good. We loved the honey butter on our english muffin’s. It blew my diet but very tasty.
We took Teagan into the pool for the first time today. She really loved it. We got a bunch of photo’s and video. MC, my mom and I took Teagan on a horse drawn carriage ride. Teagan liked seeing all the people but was a bit sleepy.
Saturday night dinner we ate as a family for my dad’s birthday. It was nice. Carrie arranged to have a cake. Morgan and Zack gave little speeches. It was very cute. After dinner we got to get a few rare family photos with everyone.
Sunday the weather was a bit nicer. We were able to get outside for a good part of the day. MC took Teagan on another horse drawn carriage ride while I went with Carrie, Michael, the kids and my dad to play mini golf. Zack declared himself winner but everyone contested at least privately and some publicly the fact that mathematically there was no way he could have won.
For lunch there was a big BBQ. We ended up getting food and eating indoors because it was a bit cold but it was a decent BBQ. MC took Teagan back into the pool. I got some more photos but decided to stay out of the water this time.
We got to see some horses up close and Teagan got to pet them. We also saw a few other animals. Teagan also got to play on the swings for a little while and I was able to feed her outside in the afternoon even though by then it got a bit chilly.
Monday was the nicest day we were there, but we unfortunately only got to be there in the morning. Everyone else stayed a bit later and got to goto the outdoor pool since it was finally nice enough. We decided to take off at Teagan’s mid day nap to get home before all the anticipated traffic. We avoided all of it and were pretty happy we got out when we did. We probably could have stayed a bit later but we were glad to get home early. We ended up going to the grassy area behind out building and sat out on the grass and played with Teagan. It was nice.
Overall it was a great weekend. One take away from the weekend was we realized the reason Teagan hasn’t been sleeping through the night recently and has been getting up early is because the sun comes into her room and wakes her. With the hotel privacy curtains she slept till 7 2 out of the 3 nights and for the 3rd night slept pretty close to it. We realized she wasn’t getting up because she went into a phase in March. it was because the time zone change in early March made it lighter earlier. That revelation will get us to buy black out curtains for her room.