Grandma and Grandpa's House

We had to change around some airline tickets last summer which resulted in us receiving credit. The bummer part...we had to fly by the end of March. I finally tracked down our confirmation numbers (we had about 5 different ones) and made multiple calls to Southwest to determine the amount we had. Turns out the boys and I had enough to equal one leg of a trip to my parent's house. So, away we went! Poor Barrett stayed behind for 2 weeks by himself with a crazy busy work schedule plus teaching early morning seminary for me. I realized this was probably the best time to fly for our family...no car seats (my mom had 2 that we used), no stroller, no unpredictable baby/blowouts/teething, and 2 boys that could kinda help and kinda take care of themselves. Pretty sweet.

We had a great time in California. The boys loved playing outside!!! They loved discovering all kinds of new-to-them toys and books and games. They found some dress-up clothes and loved wearing the hats and being cowboys. They helped my dad pick the few oranges off his tree and there was also one grapefruit for each of them to pluck off (Tommy pulled so hard he fell over!). My dad also put them to work digging holes...or something. Tommy loved watching the popcorn pop in the air popper. They didn't even miss their dad and would barely stop to say a quick hello on the phone. (I told Barrett that if he was the one who went away and left us alone, they would definitely miss him like crazy!) They were so excited to be somewhere else having fun with people they loved.