We had a fun and packed week in Utah!
Wednesday the 11th: pulled into Huntsville late that night and it was freezing! We quickly unloaded the car, cranked up the heater at the house and then crashed!
Thursday the 12th: We headed down to Centerville to meet up with the bride-to-be Courtney, and my best friend Jess. It was so fun to catch up with them! Its been hard living so far away. But when we get together it's like we have never been apart. Corinne even commented on how much we are capable of talking ;) And I just loved to see them love and dote on my little boy! After our visit I just remember being so happy the rest of the day!
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| They Loved Collin!! |
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| Auntie Jess and Collin |
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| Auntie Courtney and Collin |
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| Auntie Court got Collin to sleep |
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| The Power 3!! |
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| Grandmama Hansen and Collin |
Friday the 13th: This was a day spent in Huntsville. Bailey was feeling a little under the weather. It was so hard to keep her away from "Baby Collin" (or as she sometimes mistakenly calls him, "Baby Megan")- she loves her little cousin! And it was laundry day...4 days into vacation and we were already out of burp cloths and had tons of dirty clothes!
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| Bailey loves "Baby Collin" |
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| Just 4 days worth of laundry! Oh the joys of traveling with a 2 month old- blow outs and spit up galore! |
Saturday the 14th: The day we had been anticipating for so long, and the main reason for the trip to Utah...Cohan's Wedding!! Unfortunately, Corinne came down with the same thing Bailey had so Collin and I headed to SLC on our own. Thankfully we had a backup babysitter for during the sealing! The sealing was wonderful. It was the first I had been to since my own and I loved that the sealer went through the entire ceremony and explained each part. And I loved that it was so close to our anniversary so I could reflect on those special blessings and promises. I was very emotional during the whole sealing (actually the whole day. Blame it on the hormones and lack of sleep...I have been way more emotional since Collin was born!) It was a very long day, but I loved being able to be apart of all the festivities. And I loved getting to spend the day hanging out with Jess and Josh (and I really appreciated the extra help with Collin and I know they loved the practice!)
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| Collin and the Bride at the luncheon |
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| Jess rocking Collin and Josh rocking Jess. These 2 are going to be the best parents...someday hopefully real soon! |
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| Happy boy in his wedding outfit |
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| Collin and McCall- Courtney's niece |
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| The Power 3- all married now! |
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| Courtney and Jonathan |
Sunday the 15th: Another day in Huntsville. We purposely planned on every other day in Huntsville, to give the kids some good naps, to relax and so that we weren't driving all over the place every day.Thankfully Corinne and Bailey were feeling much better, but we were still keeping our distance to be safe. Collin and I slept in and were going to go to Sacrament meeting but Collin was acting a little off. He was really sleepy, eating on only one side at a time, and running a slight fever. I was pretty concerned since Corinne and Bailey had both had fevers. The stress of traveling and being away from Michael was definitely starting to wear on me! Thankfully this was the climax, and the rest of the trip went pretty smoothly. And thankfully the fever never amounted to anything and Collin was back to his normal self by late afternoon. In retrospect it was probably just the result of a really busy day before and not getting a really good nap.
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| Bailey playing in the curtains. She is such a silly girl! |
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| One morning Bailey and Collin played with each other for the longest time! I have probably a 5 minute video of them just playing. It was the cutest!! |
Monday the 16th: This was our day spent in Logan. Collin got to meet my 101 year old Grandma, aka GG, his Aunt Tanna, Uncle Jeremy and 4 of his Jenkins cousins. It also just happened to be his 2 month birthday!
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| Collin and GG |
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| Kisses from GG |
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| Uncle Jeremy |
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| Aunt Tanna |
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| Cousin Austin...the other boys didn't show much interest in Collin. But sweet Austin wanted to hold him! |
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| Sydney and Collin |
Tuesday the 17th: Another day in Huntsville. Corinne and I made some yummy chocolate sandwich cookies with a peppermint frosting filling. They were delicious! I did another round of laundry (so not fun!) and packed up our stuff for our flight to LA the next day. Also that night some of Michael's siblings came up to the house to meet Collin. It was great to see them again and nice to see Collin loved by so many family members!
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| Aunt Charlette |
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| Aunt Misty |
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| Uncle Dennis |
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| Aunt Brittany |
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| Aunt Misty and Cousins Kiara and Juli |
Wednesday the 18th: This was our day in Salt Lake. We picked up Morgan from the airport in the morning, shopped at City Creek for a bit until it was time to meet up with my friend Caitlin and her little girl at Zupas. It was great to meet little Laila! She is 6 months old, but about the same size as Collin. It was so great to catch up with Caitlin too. We had a nice long visit. We sure miss being in the same ward as the Mortensen's! At Zupas we also ran into my childhood friend, Emily Tao. She is living in SLC and just happened to work at Zupas. Unfortunately we had just missed her brother Matt. After lunch we had more time to kill until I had to be at the airport so we do what Jenkins girls do best...shop! I suppose it was a good thing that I was already loaded down and didn't have room to buy anything :) At last it was time for me to head to the airport. Funny story: The Hales just happened to be flying into SLC that night. Their flight landed while I was waiting for mine so I figured out what gate it was coming in at, and met them as they were walking off the plane. They were totally surprised and it was fun to see them and have them meet Collin. (Papa Hales is the mastermind behind the beautiful cradle my dad made for us). Finally we landed in LAX, were reunited with Michael, and met my parents who treated us to a late dinner at In n Out. It was great to finally be "home" and for my dad to meet Collin!
Oh, I kept forgetting on the day of, and I nearly forgot to add it in here...This day was also our anniversary. Happy 3 years to us! It was a weird one being apart, and I had forgotten until half way through the day :) But we made up for it by celebrating later during our trip...more to come on that later!
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| Emily hard at work! |
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| Laila and Collin- 4 months apart but nearly the same size! |
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| Caitlin and Collin |
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| Us and our sleepy babies! |
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| Saying goodbye to Aunt Rinny (no idea how to spell that!) at the airport...little did we know we would be seeing her in a week in CA! |
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| Ready for Collin's second flying adventure! He was such a great little traveler!! |
