{4th of July in CO}

First - I apologize for having a gazillion photos in this post. 

Second - too bad because this is my journal.

We spent a lovely few days at my Uncle's house in Colorado. They have a huge beautiful house out there and hosted most of the family who came in from out of town. I mean, there were people sleeping on mattresses on the front porch and a tent set out back. It was totally awesome. Not everyone from my mom's side could make it, but it was great to see those that did!

Late nights - way too much good food - fun cousins - lots of laughs - it was a great weekend!

These pictures aren't going to be in any sort of order and I'm too lazy to make it be so...sooo there ya go.

Evette had so much fun with her cousins (my cousins and her second cousins)! She is still talking about them and wanting to go back.

Little Gage and Evette hit it off

My mom with her two grandbabies and her Daddy

Cousin Tara was awesome and Evette loved her! They played lots together and Tara read her a lot of books (a sure fire way to get Evette to like you lol!)

Selfie with the Gramps!

Love this sister of mine!!

Cousin Hannah did some great face painting for the kiddos!

Snuggles!

Working on some fireworks

Playing pool with cousin Audrey!

Movie Night outside with everybody one night - EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!

Love these babies!

Love this picture!

Yes - yes that is a MASSIVE slip n' slide! Be totally jealous. The kids (and a few of the grownups!) totally loved it!

It was pretty epic.

Cousin Dani was also great with the little ones!

So much good food all the time! Every family (or two) was assigned a meal to take care of - it was nice because you only had to worry about 1 meal to cook and cleanup after but you always got to eat great food!

Getting ready for some s'mores!

Grandma loves her s'mores!

Evette loved the sparklers!

So cute!!

4 cute little girls in 1 big bathtub!!!

More slip n' slide!!

Reading with the great-grandparents!

This is one of my favorite pictures from the whole trip. I mean - look how awesome this photo is! Happy little girl holding a s'more on her grandma's lap looking lovingly at the awesome great grandfather with glow sticks on his head! In love.

{Pit Stop in Utah}

My mom's side of the family had a family reunion over the 4th of July weekend, but before we headed over there, we decided to make a little pit stop in Utah to visit some of Sean's family beforehand.

Traveling through the airport with 2 car seats, 2 babies, and luggage for 4 for us for 5 days is quite a feat, but we got it down to an art, I tell ya what.

Our flight to Utah was on an itty bitty airplane. tiny. TINY.

Sean gets to sit by Evette and I get Miriam. You know, the whole "I'm her sole source of food" thing kinda mandates that. My seat was next to a gentleman who probably should have purchased 2 seats. I was not exactly thrilled about this. After I moved to an empty seat only to be kicked out by late boarders and then told I can't sit on the left side of the plane because only the right side has infant safety equipment yada yada yada shuffling seats....yada yada yada...shuffling seats... I finally ended up in the back with a teeny tiny grandmother who loved Miriam. So it all worked out *sigh*

Evette slept for a great portion of the flight.

We landed super late, stayed at a nearby hotel and then went first thing in the morning to Matthew and Judy's house!

Matthew, Julianne, and Nathan all had places to go that morning so our visit with them was short, but sweet.

We spent the rest of the day hanging out with Sam and Aunt Judy.

Evette loved Sam! A couple times she called him her big brother lol. He was a great cousin and they had a lot of fun together.

Grandma and Grandpa Binns, of course, came over as well!! Love these guys so so so so so much.

Miriam JOYCE and Grandma JOYCE have a special bond. So sweet to see these two play together.

We had a flight out to Denver that afternoon, but got delayed (because a bird hit the plane on it's last flight - random) and so we got to spend a little bit more time with these lovely folks. Even though it was just for a few precious hours, it was wonderful.

Flying to Denver! Got to sit as a family!

Our girls are such great travelers. It's awesome.