Short Visit HOME!

So Kyle had a week off of school, and since I won't be able to fly in August, we decided that this will possibly be our only chance to go home this year. So last Saturday morning we woke up early and got the heck out of this place!! We were a little rushed, so most of our family has pictures that we're still waiting on, so we'll add to this blog as we get more pictures.


First we went to Kyle's Parent's house in Bountiful. We were greeted there by a baby shower and lots of family and friends. Unfortunately I have a hard time staying awake too long, so even though my shower was at 5 pm, our family stayed until about 10, while I slept on the chair for the last 2 hours they were there. Sunday we also had all of Kyle's brothers and sisters (minus Jacob --we missed you!) there for some beef brisket, which I was craving on the plane ride over, (not really craving, just wanting and I found out if I say I'm craving it, its more of a big deal) and again I fell asleep on the living room chair there at 9:00 while his family was still over. Monday was our last day there so we went to the park with all the nieces and nephews and played in the sand, in the grass, and played football. Kyle loved this more than anything. We also had CAFE RIO!! And again another party that night with all of Kyle's brothers and sisters.

This is one of his sisters - unfortunately still waiting on pictures from his other siblings families.

Tuesday we ventured off to Preston ID to see my daddy and his lovely wife. We went food shopping and they had mutual Tuesday night so we found some relaxing things to do until they got home. So we got the fishing boat ready, cleaned, and licensed. We left around noon the next day to go fishing at twin lakes and caught a bunch of fish. So when we came home, Kyle and I had the job of cleaning and fileting all the fish...that took hours, but my parents had a court of honor so we had time to de-bone all the fish and filet them up nice. Most of the little fish you see in the picture are Kyle's, and the two big fish that I'm holding are my pride and joy, big mouth bass. Kyle definatley caught the most fish, but I caught the biggest! :)

Thursday afternoon we ventured back down to Ogden to see my Mom and Ron. My sister from ID that was there just the week before came back down 6 hours each way (with a potty-training 2 year old and nursing baby) to see me! So we played a lot with her kids and went shopping for more baby things. My other sister came down from WY to see me as well on Saturday which is when we had another baby shower. By the end of both we were so loaded down with baby clothes and presents, we had to vacuum pack all of our things into our suitcases (because we couldn't afford the dumb $15 to check a suitcase), but we got everything except my baby blanket from when I was little which was ok because my mom will be coming out in October so she can bring it.

Needless to say, we felt so relaxed during this trip that it was so enjoyable! We felt like we got our fill of our families, and although there were tears in the end, we were happy to just be there. Besides 18 more months before we hopefully move back there!