Family Date Night

Sorry I've been slow on the blogging front!  V and I have been really sick for two weeks.  Its never ending!  We are finally on the mend, thank goodness!

Every Friday Justin gets off work at 11am so we have most the day to spend with him.  Sometimes we do date day where we go out to lunch and then do something fun with V.  Usually we go out to dinner every Friday as well.  Here are a few pics of our Friday Date to CheeseCake Factory about a month ago.  Afterwards we walked into the mall and let Violet play in the kids play area.  Boy she loves that place!

Daddy and V

About a month ago I took some photos of Justin and V outside our house.  I just finally edited them in picnik and wanted to share them! 

My two favorite people...

Family Reunion in Utah

Last week Violet and I had the chance to go out to Utah with my parents and sister Annie for a family reunion for my mom's side of the family.  It was Violet's first plane ride, holy moly was I scared!  She did pretty well.  She didn't cry at all she was just very active!  Climbing all over my mom, Annie and I (my dad drove with the luggage- what a champ huh!).  She could not sit still!  I made sure to bring two bags of candy for her which helped immensely.  The flight was only an hour and a half yet felt like 5 hours.  Not something I want to do very often!

It was alot of fun to see my moms 9 brothers and sisters and their kids.  Everyday we had different activities and meals with everyone.  Violet ran around and was an energizer bunny the whole time.  Mommy was very tired at the end of each day!  We also got to see some of the extended family which was awesome.  V enjoyed all the attention.

Day two we got to go to the Zoo which was V's first time.  She couldn't see much from the stroller and she skipped morning nap so she was a tad grumpy.  She did like the bird show alot.  All these gorgeous birds flew over our heads and V couldn't take her eyes off them!  I think we will try it again when shes a little older!

V and Cousin Luke

Annie chasing V

ok, how cute are these pants?  I was dying.

V loves her aunt Annie

there she goes again, trying to take down the other babies

She loves balloons! She got them all wrapped around her body.

big girl trying to put her shoes on