Utah Trip

We ventured out on our first road trip with all 4 of us--me, Collin, Ashlyn, and Lucy! We went down to Utah (which we will be doing frequently for a while) to visit Collin's parents. We stopped in Tremonton for a while to visit with Morgan and Lana and their kids on our way down. Aiden's first time holding Ashlyn! I can remember my first time holding Aiden when he was that little! what?!

The Tremonton Robertsons got a puppy!! His name is Snowball. He was so funny to watch with Lucy. She is generally pretty bossy when it comes to playing with other dogs, and he was a little too chicken to really play with her, so she got bored and started ignoring him. He would follow her around, but the minute she turned around he would run away! So funny. Hopefully he will get more used to playing with dogs so in the future they can play together! Lucy always loves a good wrestling match!

Our best attempt at a picture with all the cousins and the dogs (and somehow I am in the picture??) ! Darby, me, Aiden, Scotty, Savannah, Ashlyn and McKinzie! They all fought over who could hold Ashlyn.... and all got equal turns! McKinzie was a champ and got Ashlyn to finish a whole bottle, which she hadn't been doing for me lately.

We finally made it down to Saratoga Springs about 11:30pm. Ashlyn was wide awake so she got to hang out with Nana for a little while before she went to bed. But about an hour after we got there, Jim's rehab center called to say he was having some trouble and Darlyne needed to go in. Collin went with her, so they were gone until about 2:30am I believe. The rehab center is in Orem so it's about a half-hour drive each way every time she goes over there, which is all the time of course. Nothing of notice happened when they went over there, thankfully.

The next day, Papa got to come home for the day! It was fun to be at home with both of them, but also a lot, LOT of work for Collin's mom. Collin's dad is doing so much better than we last saw him, that was really encouraging. He had a massive stroke so he can't talk and can't move the left side of his body much, but he can balance and put weight on both feet and he's very coordinated with his right arm and leg. He still has his same sassy sense of humor, which is funny to see how that comes out even when he is still recovering like this.

Ashlyn spent a lot of time snuggling with him, and so did Lucy, although I didn't get a picture of that.

This was a cute picture Collin took of the two of them.

On Sunday, we went over to Jim's rehab center for the afternoon. Lana and the kids were there, and so was Beau. We hung out in Jim's room for a while then went to church with him. I forget how it's Utah and most people everywhere are LDS, so they had a big turn out at their meeting there at the center. I'm used to the ones our ward goes to, where there are like 5 people there! Anyway, it was like 2 hours long! I didn't realize but it was sacrament meeting, then also sunday school added on. The whole time I was thinking "oh my heck is this speaker ever going to stop!" when it turns out he was the sunday school teacher! it was good to be there in church together anyway.

Snowball came along! We dropped Lucy off at Sam and Megan's for a few hours, and they were nice enough to watch her for us until we were on our way out of town. No pictures of that, oops.

We had a lot of time to kill waiting for their church to start, so we moved a piano into a lobby and had a little piano recital! You can guess who had the camera at this point... that guy I'm married to who (annoyingly) always takes pictures of me in ugly positions playing the piano! I did play something, nothing awesome. It was only because Jim asked me to. It was fun to hear the kids play, they are all getting ready for a piano recital. You know how I love those! :)

The raptured audience

After church we headed by Sam and Megan's to get Lucy, then back home it was! It was not a big deal traveling with both a baby and a dog, although Lucy really likes to sit in someone's lap and since she couldn't sit in Collin's lap that left me to have her sitting on me practically the whole time. Ashlyn was a great traveler and I hope that keeps up! We will be heading back down there in just a couple of weeks so I bet you will be excited to see more pictures soon!