Wyoming Trip!

Yes, it's a little delayed, but time has flown by this week! I thought I'd take a sec and post some pictures from our vacation last week. We went up to Utah and were able to spend time with Shannon and her new baby, and Tanner was SO excited to have a whole week of playing with Case. Then Saturday we headed up to the Section in Wyoming to the yearly reunion for Brian's grandpa's birthday! It was a fun, but crazy-busy week. Needless to say, it's taken us most of this week to get things back down to normal!
We went straight to dinner when we pulled out into town....so happy to be done driving!



We also took the kids to the Zoo while in Utah. They LOVED it!!! I had never taken them to a zoo of any sort and Tanner has always wanted to go. He says that was the best part of the trip....

Kamryn.....

About an hour ago, Kamryn came into the computer room and took Brian's I-pod off the desk (he had just got home from running and it was still on). Well, I just went to check on her, and she's asleep! She was very hesitant to go to bed tonight, but she's sleeping now!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

That's right! Tanner was so excited for his first day of school! He was sad to find out that none of his friends were in his class, but later found out that he could still play with them at recess! When I asked him what the best part of kindergarten was, he said, "playing outside!" He will be greatly missed around the house, but at least Payton is now at an age where she and Kamryn can play together! The girls were so excited to pick him up also! (it took 40 mins! that place was a ZOO! -as expected) Here's his pics from this morning...of course Payton wanted to join in on the camera fun!

Big BLACK (purple and pink actually) EYE

I know EVERYONE loves pictures like this, so I had to share! The first picture was taken within 5 mins of her eye hitting the coffee table while we were in Utah...and about an hour later it was almost double that size! It looked like she had a bouncy ball insider her eye brow! It was swollen about another day, and then it hit the colorful stage, which she loved actually! We kept telling her it was purple and pink eye make-up, and she thought she was special.....(ignore the dirty camping face, we had been in Wyoming that day before she zonked!)

At least we left her in good hands....

Yes, we are loving our vacation even though we miss Payton a ton! But it was nice to see that we left her in good hands!

Home sweet home....

Its been over a month now, but in the beginning of June we were able to have all of my family meet up in Palm Desert where we grew up. It was a fun weekend and we were able to get a few pictures of everyone. I was hoping to get a good family pic, but Payton had a super hard weekend and wasn't up for it. We may try again in a couple weeks at the beach and see if Payton does any better! Here's a few of my favorite shots...

Tanner and JD

ALL (TOOO MANY!) the girls

Payton loved swimming in the pool at the Hotel

Tanner doing what he does best!

Payton DID not sleep well this trip, AND she cried the ENTIRE 4 hour drive home, BUT.... we sure did have fun during the day hanging out as a family!

Payton

Just had a few random pics of Payton from the last few days I thought I'd share!

Payton got into the mascara....she kinda missed her eyes - you think??

She had a fever and had a random crabby sick day yesturday.....the best part was I got to lay down with her in Tanners bed, and she actually fell asleep! (first time in forever!)

Then she was demonstrating her "serious" look that she gives me when shes mad....followed by a sweetheart smile! She cracks us up and has us on our toes!