Too much driving! But definitely worth it.

Karly and I have spent over 16 hours in the car in the last week.

She hated her car seat before. Now it's just a torture tool. Poor girl.

Nate was really busy with school last week, so Karly and I spent Monday-Thursday morning with my cousins in Altamont, UT (ever heard of it?). It was great to spend time with them - it's been way too long. I forgot how funny Alta is and how sarcastic Nelson is. :) Nancy was so good with Karly (makes sense, since she had 6 of her own!).

I didn't take many pictures - surprise surprise - but here are some that I got:

Totally random picture I took while driving (I was really careful). Pretty huh?

We went to work with Nancy one of the days, so we're just hanging out in her office...

keeping ourselves entertained.

This is mostly for my parents and siblings. This is the house we lived in until I was 10. The house used to be a darker green with a bright red door. It was awesome. It looks so much smaller...

And here's the back yard. They tore out the raspberry patch. :( They don't know what they're missing. (and the yard looks bigger than I remember - maybe it's because there used to be a garden taking up about half that yard).

Ane and Alta are in a play (with a bunch of high schoolers - they LOVE it. Heh heh.). Oklahoma! to be exact. Karly and I went to their practice a couple of nights and had fun watching them dance and just being with them
As you can see. :) (Thanks Shan for the cute jammies!)

(This is a random in between picture...)
Heil Hitler! (can I say that on here? It's just a joke) She has started raising her hand like this all the time. Sometimes like she's waiving, sometimes when she wants to be picked up, sometimes when she's trying to give you something and sometimes when she wants something. So pretty much all the time.

ANYWAY, on to our other trip. Nate decided really last minute that we should drive to Denver to help his parents unpack their new house. So Friday, we drove the 7 hours to surprise his parents. We set Karly on the porch, rang the doorbell and hid. It was pretty cute.

We spent a good part of Saturday unpacking and organizing, but that doesn't mean we didn't have time for fun! With Karly at the center of it all.

She loved this rocking horse. At first she rocked a little, but then decided it was much for fun to do tricks (she also stood on it and lifted one leg, like a rodeo girl!).
I think this was at 10 or 10:30, after she threw up all over me (and Kippy's couch and pillow - sorry about that!). She was pretty tired. But so cute!

She had a love/hate relationship with Jake the dog (hah - that could be The Bachelor too, huh?) She would crawl toward him, but keep her distance and just kind of yell and put her hands up to us like she wanted us to pick her up. In the above video is how she reacted when she got too close (this is also how she reacts to the vacuum, by the way)

Just look at her toes...

Anyway, it was a fun, albeit SHORT trip. It was fun to see their house (we'll be living there for a little while when we move to Denver) and can't wait to be there for good!