Trip to Utah

I just got back from being in Utah for a week and half. I'm so blessed to have two children that travel well on airplanes. Neither of them cried at all and they slept most of the time.

My in laws were having a family reunion and Mike and I were the only ones that were going to be there. I was so sad and so was Mike. My in-laws decided that they were going to pay for my plane ticket to come home, and I am eternally grateful because I was getting homesick. My mom got me a buddy pass, and flew out here to pick me up. With the help of both sets of parents I got to go home!!

Day 1 of our trip was just traveling down to Dallas, which a friend of mine, Heather, drove us down with her because she needed to go down for the weekend to compete in a fitness competition, which she placed 3rd in. So a big shout out to Heather!! And a big Thank You, too. This was also a special day for us because it was Ellie's 7 month birthday. I can't believe how fast these months are going by. Kristen bought Ellie the cutest little robe. She said that Ellie picked it out and just needed it.

Day 2 of our trip was a saturday. My mom flew in to hang out with us. We spent most of the day at Ikea. I love that place.

On sunday, day 3, we flew home. We had a big family dinner that day. My cousin and his family came, and Calvin got to play with his cousins. He LOVES playing with his cousins.

The rest of the week was pretty much low key. We went to a Halloween party at our neighbor's house, visited friends at SkyWest, hung out at home mostly,  until Halloween. I took Calvin Trunk or Treating at my mom's church building. He loved it! He didn't like dressing up so much, and he never said Trick or Treat, or Thank you. If fact, I'm pretty sure he didn't say anything, which is rare. But he was just taking it all in. And now the kid is hooked on sugar. Oh well...

That night we went to the reunion, which was also in St George. We were so excited to see everyone and Ellie got to meet the rest of Mike's family. I will post a new post just for the reunion, because there were a few special moments.

I left on saturday night to go back to my parents so we could go home early on sunday morning. We got to the airport and got all unloaded, but didn't make it on the flight (we were flying standby.)

All of the flights for the rest of the day (and next day) looked awful. We tried again on monday, out of Cedar City, and we were going to get on and make it all the way home, but our plane had mechanical problems and we wouldn't have made our connection, so.... we went back home.

Then finally on Tuesday we took a flight out in the afternoon, (Alyson flew home with us and was such a big help! Thanks sal!!)  and got back to Texas on Tuesday night. Mike and Kristen picked us up.

Home again, Home again, Jiggety jig.