Trip to Utah/Colorado

In mid-May Scott and I took Zoey to visit my family in Utah and Colorado. With the exception of my mother, who came out when Zoey was first born, none of my family had met Zoey. Unfortunately, we only had 6 days, and two of those were travel days, so we didn't have a whole lot of time.

Here is Zoey at the Columbus Airport, while we are waiting to board the plane.

My family has a tradition of taking a picture of the kids' first plane ride. Here is Zoey's.

She did an amazing job on the plane and we got compliments from those around us. In fact, we had one of the worst landing ever when we landed in Chicago. It was so bad that I actually bounced up off my seat. Zoey just smiled and thought it was the best thing ever. LOL!

Here is Zoey at Midway Airport in Chicago

And here she is once we arrived in Salt Lake City

Once we arrived in Salt Lake, we had to deal with difficulty at the rental car counter (I won;t get into details of that. We then met our friends, Amanda and Duane, and their baby, Colin, at one of my favorite burger places in SLC, Crown Burger, and had a good lunch.

We then drove three hours to see my grandma. Sadly, we didn't get to visit for very long; however, it was a nice visit.

From there we drove another hour to visit with my dad. We were able to spend a couple of hours there and went to dinner. Zoey seemed to enjoy her time.

We spent the night in the hotel. Zoey fell asleep pretty easily in the pack-n-play and woke up in a good mood that morning.

Once we got up and ready, we headed over to my sister's house, three hours away in Colorado. Once there, we had a great time seeing everyone and playing with everyone.

While we were at my sister's house, we celebrated my niece's 16th birthday. Her theme was Toy Story, so we got her a Toy Story cake. I created 8 x 10 pictures of her throughout the years and we hung them from the ceiling.

This trip also gave Scott and I the opportunity to take Zoey swimming for the first time. I was kind of nervous about it because up until this trip Zoey absolutely hated bath time. So I was worried she would just scream and scream. However, she seemed to really enjoy it. I'm not sure she really cared about the water and was more interested in sucking on her monkey. LOL!

All in all, it was a pretty good visit with the family. We left my sister's house Tuesday afternoon and headed to Amanda and Duane's for the night so we wouldn't have to drive the four hours early in the morning. It was nice to be able to spend some time and let Zoey and Colin play together. We also got to see some friends that live in Utah.

The flight home was good. Zoey again was very well behaved on the plane and we once again got compliments on how good she was. We had a long layover in Chicago, but Zoey was a trooper and just played with her toy.