Our vacation

This blog is about my vacation, pictures coming soon!

So, Maya and I have been back from our vacation for a couple of days now and I sure could use another one! I am so tired! We really had a lot of fun visiting family and friends and it was such a cool opportunity for use to be able to be out there.

We flew out on the 23rd and my worries about Maya on the plane were unneeded. She fell asleep almost immediately after take-off both times and only woke up when we landed. When we got into Utah we met up with Grandma Becky, who hadn't seen her since she was three weeks old, and made our way to Spanish Fork were Maya meet Great-Grandpa Hunsaker and Great-Grandma Hunsaker, she met Chris, Cory, Melissa, Nate, Emma, Amberly, Galen, Isaac and Marlyce. The next day she attended the 24th of July Day parade which she slept through and then we headed to Mommies home town of Green River Wyoming. She was able to meet her uncle Keelen, which I think was confusing to her because he looks so much like her daddy.

The next day we headed out to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to meet up with Grandma Ann, who hadn't seen her since she was two weeks old, and went camping with Grandma Ann, Tony, and got to meet Liz, Jacob, Ellie, Seth, Julie, Alyssa, Alex and Chloe. It was so fun to be camping and Maya did really well. She had fun with her two youngest cousins too. Ellie is eight months old and Chloe is seven months old. It was suprizingly quiet with 3 babies camping. Maya got to see a lot of things she had never seen before including an upclose view of a buffalo walking past our vehicle, Old Faithful and Yellowstone, Jackson and an old fashion gunfight, and a yummy chuckwagon dinner.

We then headed back to Green River where we spent the next couple of days relaxing and visiting friends of mommy. Some former coworkers thought I was babysitting! They didn't know I had a baby! Grandma Becky and Grandma Ann had fun showing Maya off to all of there friends. Who wouldn't? She is a beautiful baby.

We then headed down to Murray Utah to Grandpa Bobs house. We then immediately went to a house in Park City we rented were we met up with Seth and his family, Liz and her family, and Maya got to meet Brody, Helen, Kayla, Maxwell, Kolby and baby Rachel. It was a full house with Dad, Louise, 4 of 5 siblings, 3 spouses, teenagers, 3 youngens, and 4 babies under a year old! Then we had 4 of 7 of Louise's children and their kids over for dinner. It was fun to be there to celebrate my dads birthday. We were able to get a hold of Sarah who was able to call and wish dad a happy birthday.

Thenwe went to visit Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Loveridge. Maya who had been so good the last two weeks wasn't happy at dinner though and we spent most of our time away from the dinner table. We then spent the last couple of days recuperating at my dads house. We celebrated Liz's birthday the day before headed home.

All in all it was a wonderful vacation. It would have been perfect if Branch could have come but he stayed home studying for and completing his 4th sememster. Only 2 more semesters to go! WHOO HOO! It really sucked to be away from Branch for so long, especially for him to be away from Himaya. It also would have been cool if Sarah and her family could have come out but we have girls weekend coming up! I was so lucky that I could come out when Seth and his family were coming out also. It was so good seeing them. I hadn't seen them in 2 years and it probably would have been another year until we could have gotten together. It was so fun also to see all 4 of the babies together! Even though they are only 4 months apart from oldest to youngest it was so neat to see them together. I can't wait until the next girls weekend when they will all be walking and talking!

I am glad to be back though. Even though I don't particularly like Dallas it is home to me now because home is were my heart is. I love you Branch and Himaya so very much!

Now I need a nap!