Road Trippin...

On my way to work on Friday (May 22), I had the thought that we should take a quick trip to see my brother Jack and his wife, Amy. I didn't have to work again until later in the week and school is only on Thursdays during the summer for me. I texted my dad about it, and he said that was funny because he had decided to go see them in the morning after a doctor's appointment. So we decided to meet at my house an hour after I got home from work so I would have time to pack a few things and get the kids ready. We headed out at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, and Utah looked like this....

I was so excited to be heading to warmer weather. Jack lives in Redlands/Riverside area of southern California, so I expected nothing less than 70 degrees, thank you very much. Goodbye cold, hello warm! There was a smallish incident with a low (ok, practially FLAT) tire and a short two hour detour to get new tires on my dad's SUV, but we made it there safely and that's what really matters.

Here's Nick at Jack and Amy's, just exhausted from sitting in the car for 10 hours.

Here's Bella, sprawled out on the floor, happy as can be.

The proud parents-to-be, Jack and Amy. They are soooooo cute! So happy together and excited to see the new baby. They are ready, and it could be any day now! I know you can't tell because she's still so tiny, but she's almost 38 weeks here.

Here are my kids with Jack and Amy. Bella loved to feel her cousin kicking and tried to talk him into being born while we were visiting. Sadly, it didn't happen...

So, it rained throughout the entire stay in California (basically, Sunday). Here we are, heading back to Utah, and it's warm and sunny. yep. figures. Bella would have loved a beach day :-)

And here's Mr. Nick, who doesn't really like to be interrupted when he's trying to play his Nintendo DS...

Here are the kids at the Nevada/Arizona state borders. Nick wanted a picture while they were in two places at once :-) We decided against taking a pic at the California boarder...didn't want to make anybody nervous...hahaha.

A lovely shot near St. George. At least it was sunny and beautiful there.

And another boarder picture. Here are the kids at the Arizona/Utah boarder. You can tell by now that they are quite done with the road trip and would just like to get home, please.

And we're home. It was kind of a full-circle trip, leaving with snow and coming back with snow. But it's beautiful and it's home. We hope to take lots more trips out to southern California this summer to see the new baby, and we will just have to have a few beach days then. :-)