Being the Boyds: A New Year

Well, as you can see I was unsuccessful in keeping up with this blog last year. I'm going to try again and see what happens! We have rolled over into 2016 and have some big changes coming this year. The biggest being the arrival of our new little man. I'm due April 23 and so far, so good.
Jesse worked a LOT of overtime over the Christmas holidays, so we felt that we really needed some family time. We decided to take the kids on a little weekend getaway to Mountain View, AR to visit the cave Blanchard Springs. We got up this past Friday and did a few things in school, and then we were on the road by about 9:30 or 10.

We ended up staying in Mountain Home because we wanted a hotel with a swimming pool. Even though it was about an hour drive to the cave the next day, we were so glad we chose this hotel. It was the Hampton Inn and it was really nice. The kids loved the pool, I loved the hot tub, and we ALL loved the continental breakfast! This was Graham's first experience in a hotel, and he did really well sleeping in his pack & play.

We went to a really good Italian restaurant that night, and then went back to the hotel and watched Wreck it Ralph before bed. In the morning we got up and headed to Mountain View to go to the cave. Blanchard Springs was really pretty and cool!

If you looked closely you could see all kinds of things in the cave. I thought this was really cool because it looked like there was a ship on the wall!

Graham was fascinated by the cave! Haha. When we left there we went around the corner and saw a really pretty waterfall and dam. The kids had fun exploring, but it would really be fun to go back in the summertime when it's warmer.

After we left the stream we went to the town square and had some more good food. We definitely did some good eating on this trip! After lunch we walked around and visited some of the little shops, then went to an old-timey soda fountain and had some ice cream.