July 5-8

The next morning we were up bright and early to catch our flight. That was really hard to leave Ryan. But at least I was going somewhere fun. Well the flight was about 2 hours, but let me tell you that was a very eventful two hours! Kaitlyn was really tired and ready for her morning nap, but of coarse she wouldn’t just sit there to fall asleep so I had to fight with her the whole time. Between all the fit throwing and her insistence on kicking the chair in front of me, I’m sure everyone just thought she was adorable. Then Emily started having a hard time. What now? There’s only 2 seats. So I took Emily out of her chair to hold both of them and try to calm her down. Well I instantly found the problem. A HUGE blowout. That was entertaining. Luckily there was a really nice flight attendant that let me use the galley (where they prepare the food) and helped keep Kaitlyn there while I cleaned up Emily. I didn’t have a change of clothes on me so we got to have naked baby time on the airplane. We got settled back in to our seats and I was feeding Emily and she had another messy diaper! Luckily I felt her going so I knew what was up this time. I couldn’t believe that she was full again. So this time Kaitlyn had settled down (sort of) in Emily’s car seat so I changed Emily on my lap. Let’s just say I was so glad when we finally touched down!
My Aunt Michelle came to pick us up and we spent that day and most of the next day with her and her family. She has 5 children, 4 girls and one boy, Ashley, Madison, Brianna, Brooklyn, and Adam. The kids were so much fun. Kaitlyn loved following them around and playing with them. Brianna especially took to Kaitlyn. It was really cute. The two youngest are almost twins, just a couple of months apart, and they both kept calling Kaitlyn and Emily- the baby. So they’d ask a question like where’s the baby? And I’d have to say witch one? Adam was really cute with Emily. Both of them really liked to take care of and hold her, but Adam was the one that was the most interested in it. I think all the cousins were but since they were the youngest, they were up with us before the rest of the house was. Anyway here’s a really cute picture of my cousin Adam holding Emily:

That whole day and into the evening was really hot and all the cousins and even my uncle were playing with the water outside; water balloons, water fights, the hose, buckets. Pretty much anything they could find. Kaitlyn LOVED it! She loves to play in the water. At the end of the day she was soaked and so proud of herself. Her favorite was the hose and a close second was the water balloons. She loved trying to fill this wheelbarrow with water, and trying to drink from the hose.


Aunt Michelle lives in American Fork, so she was kind of in the center of all the action. Kaitlyn, Emily, and I stopped at her house a few times, along with my Mom, Dad and brother Andrew (at separate times), my sister Julia and her husband Cody, my brothers Jace and Kurtis, and my sisters Jessica and Tiara. When my family comes to visit, they come to visit. We invade! I’m so glad that we have such wonderful family to take us in and entertain us while we visit Utah.
So the second day in Utah I was at my Aunts house and my family caught up with us. It was so fun to see everyone again. Especially Julia and Cody because they weren’t able to come up for Emily’s blessing and Ryan’s graduation like everyone else was. She has a bunch of really cute pictures on her blog HERE.
So this was the 6th of July and 7th my cousin in Provo was getting married. We went up there that afternoon. My Aunt got us all a hotel for the next 3 days. That was really nice of her. Kaitlyn loved swimming at the pool and playing with Uncle Cody. Julia and Cody are so baby hungry they couldn’t put the girls down. It was so cute. It was also really good for Kaitlyn because she was missing her daddy. Unfortunately I didn’t get ANY pictures of this weekend. I’m so mad at myself, but I was pretty stressed trying to travel with 2 babies and no husband. My cousin Kayla looked SO beautiful. I loved seeing her so happy. She really deserves to be happy and have such a wonderful eternal companion. On Friday night we had a bacheloret party (g rated of course). It was so much fun. We just got all the girls together and talked and played games and Kayla opened a few gifts. It was really a lot of fun. My cousin Lalani thought of a really fun game. The theme for the evening was Mexico because that’s where Kayla’s honeymoon was, so we pretended we went to the horse races. We all had names we picked for our horses and we competed and bet on each other with beans. It was really a lot of fun. The next day was the wedding. Since we (the girls and I, and my siblings) couldn’t go to the wedding (she had a really small sealing room) we stayed at the hotel and went swimming, and then Jules and I got to go shopping. Unfortunately we had about an hour tops to shop so it was over way to soon! That evening we went to Kayla’s reception. It was really cool. Not the traditional church gym, it was in a park and we had a bar-b-que. The food was great and it was fun to see more cousins and watch Kayla with her new husband. At the end of the evening one of my uncles who’s a science teacher got out miniature cannons he made and they shot them off with marshmallows. It was REALLY cool. They really shot like cannonballs; you couldn’t stand in front of them because it was dangerous. After that we shot off some fireworks. Kaitlyn really thought they were cool. I think those were her first, if not they were the first that she knew what was going on. My cousin Lalani, is just 6 months older than me and when we were little we used to tell everyone we were twins. Well we were both pregnant at the same time and she had a little girl only a week after I had Emily. It was so fun to see how much they look alike! I wish I had a picture, but I had left my camera at the hotel. On Sunday we stayed in Provo again and just enjoyed relaxing and playing with cousins. Kayla and her new husband came over and opened presents and played a few games with us.