Saturday, June 27, 2009

Vegas/Utah Trip

We just returned from a wonderfully busy vacation. First stop was Vegas for our friend Jimmy's wedding. It was a wonderful sealing in the Las Vegas temple and they both looked so happy. I have to say I loved the bride's choice of brown tuxedos.


Next stop was Utah to visit family. Cade and I made good use of our layovers.  

Cade loved playing with bubbles with Grandma.
 
We spent some time with Shanna and Matthew. Our best friend Alexi was also in town. Since Shan will miss her wedding Matthew flew her our for a visit as a mothers day/birthday gift for Shan.
 
We spent a couple of nights at Cole's parents' cabin in Scofield. Cole was very excited to take me fishing. He made me bait my own hook which was totally disgusting. I was so pumped to catch my first fish.  I felt tugging and started reeling in totally expecting a fish. I was so excited and Cole was snapping pictures only to find my first catch was simply my line stuck on the lake bottom. Highly disappointing.



Cade and I at the cabin. There was a small bat there and I tried to teach him how to use it. (See-I can totally do boy things!) 

At the cabin Cade peed through his PJs and and to wear one of my shirts. You can see his curls pretty good in this shot.
 

Cole and 2 of his siblings. I practically made them pose for a picture ;)
Cade playing with Grandma and Cousin Gage in Cole's Grandma's backyard. Might I say the Utah weather was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the dry weather. In Kansas we are suffocating with 1,000% humidity. 


All the traveling really wore Cade out.  The windows were rolled down in the car... I think he works the hair blown look well ;)  
 

Shanna planned her baby shower for the same week that Alexi and I were in town. It was so fun to see her big and prego. Only 4 weeks till Cousin Austin is here! We are so excited! 


We really enjoyed being able to spend time with so many friends and family. We are far from all of them and appreciate the time they took to spend with us.

4 comments:

Taryn said...

I remember now that you guys were friends with him, but my brother knew Jimmy in the MTC. I remember him sending home tapes with Jimmy talking on them and hearing about it. Small world!

Could you have planned a better time to take a trip? Looks like you got lots of things in and I always love hearing about when you and Shanna get together.

Melissa said...

I love the belly shots of Shanna. Looks like a fun trip. I love the pictures of you fishing...too cute.

Ciera said...

From Alyssa:
cade's so humongo (and extremly cute)! :)

Alisa said...

How fun!! Ryan wants to take me fishing because I've never caught one...we'll see how that goes. Shan looks so cute! Glad you got to spend some time together:)