Labor Day Weekend/Baby Blessing...FAMILY FUN!

This Labor Day weekend, we packed up and headed down to Utah for the baby blessing of Emily (my sister) and Dave's new baby girl, Maggie.  The trip was SO fun, and relaxing and all those wonderful things...except for the part of Brody having a high fever and being lethargic half the time with no other symptoms.  But I digress.  Any time with family is always wonderful!

Packing for 6 people (I don't pack for Marty) is NOT however wonderful...
This is our luggage for THREE days.  Yes. Only three.

On the road...watching movies.

Brody wasn't so happy with the car ride at first, so we introduced him to M&M's...suddenly he was happy as could be.  Amazing how that works!

 FINALLY he fell asleep in the car...little did we know this was the precursor of what was to come as he was sick the remainder of the weekend with a fever and slept the majority of the time we were in the car.  Which I guess is somewhat of a blessing, but it also meant he was quite grumpy when he wasn't sleeping.

 We just drove to Centerville Friday night and spent the night.  Then we got up Saturday morning to head down to St. George with my parents and Aspen (my other sister) and Steve's family.  We decided after all the years of making this drive, we were going to finally stop in and see Cove Fort.  I had been there as a child, but it had been YEARS.  It was a cool place!

Grandma and Grandpa with most of the grand kids (minus Emily's 3 girls).

Cousins just happy to be together!

Dad's and their boys.

The whole group standing in front, getting ready to go on our tour.

Inside Cove Fort! 

Up on the big balcony - I guess you'd call it.  The sun was right in my eyes, so the pictures were kind of washed out.  But still fun.

Brody hanging out by a door...

Heading out behind the fort to see the farm.

"Elder Crow"

Brody trying to peak over this baby sized fence.

 Fun on the farm! 

The rebellious children touching the "Please Do Not Touch" sign.  The sign was meant for that buggy behind the rope, but they thought they were so hilarious touching the sign.

Changing the sign to say "Please DO touch"

 And a random Taco Bell selfie...

Once in St. George, we were stopped waiting for my parent's to check into their accommodations, and I noticed a little face peaking behind my shoulder and had to snap a picture.

A nice family picture...

We went to this park that was down the street from our old house.  We used to go to this park quite frequently, and it was fun to be back.  Brielle and Claire both ran into old friends while we were there.  It was especially nostalgic as it was almost exactly 1 year before, to the day, that we were packing up and moving to California.  What a year it's been!

In the hotel room, we convinced Molly that having this fun little bed cubby was AWESOME!  

She loved it.

 We had a great Sunday for Maggie's blessing, and got a picture of all the grand kids together!

We then hit the road back to Centerville to spend the night before driving the rest of the way home to Idaho on Monday.  It was a whirlwind few days!

At one of our pit stops on Monday, Molly found a bonnet.  We weren't going to get it...because what's the point...but when she put it on and smiled that DANG CUTE SMILE, I couldn't resist.  So she was our little pioneer girl the rest of the ride home.

Brielle was being anti-picture most of the weekend, so when she let me take this, I was happy.  She's such a pretty girl! 

And that wraps up our fun Utah trip!  We love any time we get to spend with family, and love being a little closer now.  Still 5 hours, but that beats 10-12 or 22 like when we were in Texas!  So we'll take it!