Utah!

Saturday we went up to the northern part of Colorado to attend PC's nephew's baptism. That was great.  Always great to be with family and see other "family" we haven't seen in a while.  The kids and I spent the night there and then left the next morning for Utah to visit my sister.  Yes, it was a long drive.  Thank goodness I don't have any babies anymore!  They all did great.  (The dvd player we borrowed from Nana and Papa helped out a great deal as well!) 
This was our first pit stop, right after we crossed into Wyoming.  The kids wanted their picture taken with Abraham Lincoln (except for Goofy who did NOT want his picture taken).

It was so great to get to my sister's house safe and sound.  The kids just love their cousins, aunt, and uncle so much. It was fun to see their new house.  Minnie and Bucko both told me how much they loved being at their house!  Which was good to hear because Minnie was having a hard time leaving Daddy.  She did not want to come without him, but it was just not possible to bring him with us.  We sure have loved having him all to ourselves for six months, though!
Today we spent the day with mine and PC's good friend, Shorty.  She's the one I did the blog partnersintime.wordpress.com with while PC was deployed.  It was so fun to see her and her sweet children!!  We always talk about how fun it would be to get our kids together, and it finally happened! It took a little bit for them to warm up to each other, but once they did, it was so much fun!!  We played in the backyard with water guns and slip-n-slide, etc.  It was so much fun to just get to talk to Shorty in person and see their day to day life that I hear so much about.  Shorty treated me to Cafe Rio for lunch.  Yum yum yum!! And we also walked down to their little pond by their house.  It was so much fun.  A day I will never forget!  Our only regret was that our husbands couldn't be there.  Next time though! For sure!