Family Fun & Travels

Emily and brother Carson

Last week I flew out to LA to help my sister Mary and her family move to Valdosta Georgia since Corban just graduated from USC to be a dentist in the Air Force. I hadn't seen little Emily since right after she was born, and now she's 4 months old...and SOOOO CUTE!!! I pretty much didn't put her down the entire time (of course, I had to hold her while we were driving across the country otherwise she cried). Not that I don't love all my other nieces and nephews...but little babies are so cute! Emily has big brown eyes and hair that stands up in a little mohawk sort of thing. She likes to talk, sing, blow spit bubbles, and put anything in her mouth including her toes (which is actually kind of funny), but other than not enjoying long road trips, she's a very sweet and happy baby.
The Mohawk

Those big brown eyes

It took us all week to drive across the country since we had to consider that Carson & Emily could only take so much driving. We stopped in a place called Oro Valley, right outside of Tucson AZ, Fort Stockton TX, when we stopped in Houston I got to see my friend Stefanie which was really fun and then our last stop was Mobile Alabama. I really love the south! It's so green and I love the trees that line the highways-you don't get that much out here in Colorado. Plus the people out there are generally really friendly and they call you "baby", "sugar", "babydoll", "honey"....and there's always the accents.

It was a lot of fun spending time with Mary, Corban, Carson and Emily. I was sad I had to leave the day after we got to Valdosta-especially because on the flight home I spent like 6 hours at the Chicago airport and I would have rather been spending time with Mary. Elden luckily had been hanging out at his Brother David's in Denver and so he slept there until I finally made it and we made it home at like 2am and then had to get up early for church the next morning...don't ask me what I learned, just be surprised I stayed awake!!