This was the final leg of our little Houston journey. It was a nightmare though - our plane was late and the flight attendant lady was psyco! She kept getting on the speaker while we were waiting in the terminal telling all sorts of false info - like there was not enough room for everyone on the plane so some people had to choose to go later - then they said the plane was too heavy and some random luggage would be left in Houston and sent out on a later flight... then we got on the plane and still couldn't leave... Poor Jaylee was beyond tired at this point. I should have been home last night around 9:30 but didn't get home until after 11... It was well worth it though - Houston is AMAZING! Jaylee really did do acceptionally well on the flight. She was totally a statue as we took off and she watched out the window. She thought it was so cool! She did the same thing when we landed and she got to watch all the city lights.
*I have to explain the star on my forehead. Dave and Julie always set goals to challenge themselves and each other. They earn stars for lots of things - eating healthy, working out, scripture study, reading books and lots more. All week I tried to earn a star from Dave - FINALLY on Sunday he issued me my first star! I got the star for helping finish off all the candy in the house :) Yes- that's really sad reason for getting a star - but I'll take it :) Thanks Dave!
My mom was SO great with Jaylee this last week (well, she always is) All week she was trying to get Jaylee to say "grandma", she didn't quite get out grandma, she did get out bah bah... Close enough! Way to go Jaylee!
This is what the two girls looked like in the back of the car. They had a blast playing with each other and each other's toys :) They did spend quite a bit of time here. Thank goodness they're good kids!
This was Sunday after Church. The girls looked so cute so we had to snap some pictures.
This is my sister and her sweet family! Love you guys!
I had to add this picture of Dave with Bailey. He is such an amazing dad! He'll change diapers -get her ready to go places - feed her - play with her... She's super lucky! :)
Jaylee looked so cute before we went to church so I had to get a picture. Church was really fun in Julie's ward and really different. They forgot to bring bread for the sacrament so we had to take the sacrament at the end of the meeting - then the first speaker forgot she had to speak but ended up giving a powerful testimony. I also go to go to YW since my sister is the YW president down there. It was fun to see her cute girls (even though there were only 7 total!).
Chloé had one request - that was for me to take a picture of Julie's back yard... Here you go Chlo - this is Julie stainding by her cute garden in her back yard - notice she has PALM TREES there! How fun :)
This car totally cracked me up. It was in front of the game store we went to. The funny thing is the store had a worker who looked EXACTLY like Santa... I'm pretty sure this is his car. :)
I had a hard time thinking of what to bring home to Dave - Julie's Dave had the great idea to look for something in this comic book/game/toy store. It was PERFECT! I found him some new things for his collection. Thanks for the great idea BIL Dave!
Okay - so my sister and her hubby are SO SO SO creative! For my birthday they got me a cake from Baskin Robins - you know - they're known for their 31 flavors of ice cream... huh, sort of fun since I turned 31 this year. The night we celebrated Dave's cousin John was over there - small world because his birthday was the same as mine!!! BIL Dave's birthday is on the 20th so the cake worked great! Thanks guys!
So my BIL Dave is awesome! He made us homeade Beans and Rice - I think he said it was Brazilian style. YUM!!! Everything in it was fresh. He was amazing too - he'd do the dishes make the meals and still have time to play games with us. I already asked if I could take him home with me. :)
Dave borroed Julie's toe socks to help a sore toe he had. Bailey thought it loked yummy so she tried to take a bite. SO CUTE!
Even though it was cold we decided to take a walk anyway. Julie's neighborhood is beautiful! This is a picture of the front of her house.
Jaylee LOVED LOVED LOVED the ducks we saw on our walk. It was hillarious to watch her start chatting to them. :)
This is the little man made pond by her house (where the ducks were) What a beautiful place!
Mom was great and treated us all to dinner. I had our waitress take our picture - she was quite different and liked to talk to Jaylee inches away from her face. It actually really freaked Jaylee out and she'd cry whenever she'd see the waitress :)
This was Jaylee checking out all the options at the resteraunt.
Julie had way too much fun feeding Jaylee. Julie though it was hillarious that Jaylee's snacks would stick to her face. Julie said "the mom might as well have fun too". Very good point!
Isn't she SO SO SO cute! Bailey was doing better and better sitting up while we were there. She was just so stinkin fun I had to keep playing with her! She's an amazing baby too! She wakes up around 7- 7:30 and Julie feeds her. They play for a little bit and give her a bath- they read stories and she's down for a nap by 9. She'll sleep until noon - wake up - play for a bit - eat and she's back down again for an afternoon nap! (yes, this is a dream baby :) ) She goes to bed at 7 and sleeps all night. Funny thing is I don't think I EVER heard her cry when she woke up. Julie would just go check on her to see if she was awake or not... Nice huh?
Julie wanted to try to feed Jaylee since feeding Bailey has been a challenge. Julie said it was much easier feeding Jaylee but my mom says she's a moving target - she NEVER holds still so she ends up with stuff all over her face :)
I brought Bailey some of these little food holder things. She LOVED bananas! It was funny watching her get frustrated when it was empty!
Jaylee and Bailey had a great time together. Jaylee LOVED having another little person to hang out with!
This is us at the Houston Airport. WE MADE IT! :)
Jaylee LOVED sitting on the tray table on the airplane - it was cute to watch all the people around us playing with her too - she was the hit of the plane! Since this trip she's learned to eat whole cheerios and puff treats - she can even pick them up with her finger and thumb! Go Jay!
This is Grandma and Jaylee at the SLC airport while we're waiting to go to Houston.
Houston was such an amazing experience for me. I was so excited to be able to go. I didn't realize how much I missed my amazing sister! She is truly a dream and I won't ever forget these few precious days I had to spend with her and her adorable family. It was great to get away and spend some good quality girl time. Jaylee was awesome during the day - but just moaned at night keeping me up most of the night - CRAZY KID! We got to play games (my favorite was a game called guiateen - I know that's not spelled right - dang!), watch movies (Madagascar 2) I even got to watch a few minutes of the Utah vs. Wyoming basketball game with my BIL. My team won! :) I even found out Utah took first in the Mtn West tournament. Nice - they did great in Bball and football! Ching Ching! I got a birthday cake and amazing food too. We went shopping and I got some AMAZING jewelry and some fun things for the girls. We chatted in our PJ's and didn't get ready until after noon one day. We laughed one night so hard we were all in tears! I will remember this trip forever and I'm so thankful for Dave that he'd be so good to watch the girls for me so I could go! The girls said they watched lots of movies and showed me their happy meal toy collection! :) They had a great time and said they really liked spending time with Dad. Thanks to mom and dad for the amazing birthday gift and giving me the opportunity to spend some time with my sweet sister and mom!
Thanks Dave, Julie and Bailey for being a great host and hostesses - your house is amazing but your company is better! Love you guys so much!
The bride with my girls - they thought she looked like a princess - which she does!
I had to add in this picture of Rob - he thought his shoes were pretty goofy :)
OH!!! This is one of the only times you can kiss in public and people aren't getting all freaked out by it! :)
OH the BFF's from highschool!!! I love this picture - these girls have meant more to me than they'll EVER know! Love you girls!
Aren't they SO cute?!?!
Twilight Nelson Created 2008
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