Last week we left the Dallas icy weather for the freezing Vail weather! We enjoyed a few days with great friends from church in a 7 million dollar, 7 bedroom, 8 bath home in the mountains. Wow, it was amazing!
The group:
Jimmy, Carol, Matt, Amy, Greg, Maren, Jeff, Mandy, Matt and Ashley
Matt and I flew standby as usual. Our flights were completely free! Whoo hoo! We left our house around 4 am on Wednesday morning. We got first class on the first flight to Atlanta and then bumped to coach on the next flight to Vail. I can't complain. This is my silly husband in coach trying to catch some z's!
When we arrived at the house we were amazed! It was beautiful. The pictures definitely don't do it justice! There were two master suites and they gave us the smaller one because I'm pregnant. How nice are our friends?! This was our room.
We like to pose for pictures! Can you tell?
After warming up and getting situated, we decided to walk to the local shuttle to grab a bite to eat for lunch. The temperature was around -13 that afternoon. This girl was absolutely freezing waiting for the bus!!! I look so pitiful!
Greg, Maren, Carol, and Jimmy arrived at the house a little later that evening and we all enjoyed dinner together and then played card games around the table waiting for the Mills and the Kirby's.
Our lovely kitchen
The next morning, Matt got dressed to go attempt to snow board. He's not a dork at all!! I promise!
It was so great to have Matt's brother Mike and his fiance Meg come meet us from Boulder. Mike and Matt went snow boarding while Meg, Carol, and I went shopping in Vail.
Beautiful Vail
Ashley and Carol waiting for our men
My future sister-in-law and me!
We waited for the guys for a while to come down the hill and found out that Matt had fallen on his wrist and thought he had broken it! We think it was just a sprain, but needless to say, Matt was so frustrated because he couldn't quite conquer snow boarding. It was bad!
We all headed up the Gondola to eat lunch at the top of the mountain. We were starving!!
The top of the mountain was beautiful, but the food was not. I ordered a way over priced burrito and noticed that the green salsa tasted odd, but was so hungry that I didn't care. Well, later that night, I ended up with a mild case of food poisoning and let everything out all night long! It was miserable!!
The next day, Matt decided to go skiing with his brother while Meg sat with me at the house. Not a bad house to lounge in all day! 
I could barely eat all day and was so weak! Matt was getting pretty worried about me and took me to the local hospital. They decided that I needed 2 liters of IV fluid to re-hydrate me since I'm pregnant. It took 3 different nurses to get the IV in my dehydrated veins. It was horrible pain getting poked and prodded, but about 20 minutes after the fluids started coming, I really started feeling better! 
We had a great time that night eating dinner together at the house and playing card games. I actually ate again! We ended the night with a fun game of Charades! It was crazy times to say the least!
View outside my window
Our friends were so gracious to let Mike and Meg crash in the bunk rooms downstairs the last night so they could drive us to the airport on Saturday morning. The flights to Dallas were starting to get full due to the Super bowl being at the Cowboy's stadium. We ended up having to drive to the Denver airport and go home through Memphis. There was a snow storm the entire drive! I luckily got to sit first class the entire way home and we made it home Saturday night around 10 pm.
Through the crazy injuries and sickness, we still managed to have an amazing trip with great friends! I feel blessed!
Thanks so much to my mom for staying with Roman so we could enjoy one last trip away before baby girl comes. I was so sad to take my mom back to the airport on Sunday afternoon! Love you mom!!
After warming up and getting situated, we decided to walk to the local shuttle to grab a bite to eat for lunch. The temperature was around -13 that afternoon. This girl was absolutely freezing waiting for the bus!!! I look so pitiful!
Our lovely kitchen
The next morning, Matt got dressed to go attempt to snow board. He's not a dork at all!! I promise!
It was so great to have Matt's brother Mike and his fiance Meg come meet us from Boulder. Mike and Matt went snow boarding while Meg, Carol, and I went shopping in Vail.
Beautiful Vail
Ashley and Carol waiting for our men
The top of the mountain was beautiful, but the food was not. I ordered a way over priced burrito and noticed that the green salsa tasted odd, but was so hungry that I didn't care. Well, later that night, I ended up with a mild case of food poisoning and let everything out all night long! It was miserable!!
