Memorial Week

This year for Memorial weekend we extended it to the full week. Ryan got me flights to Arizona for Mother's Day, using our frequent flyer miles (aka free flight). I was scheduled to fly out Tuesday and come back to South Bend Saturday night. A quick trip but loads of fun.

For Memorial Day we went up to Lake Michigan to spend the day at the beach with our friends. It was wonderful. I love the beach and the sun and it was a perfectly overcast day. After spending the day at the beach we had a big group BBQ at our apartment complex with all the Mormons.

We started the trip off right by spending a day in Chicago. Ryan got a round of golf in with our neighbor before we left. We went to Museum Campus. We did the Field Museum and the Shedd Aquarium. It was loads of fun. I thought Linc would love looking at all the fish. You know the colors, the movements the water, NOPE. He was more interested in all the people, especially kids running around. Owell. We enjoyed our time.

Fish are not my favorite. I do like the pretty colorful ones but most fish are disgusting and it makes my ears hurt. Don't ask me why but when I get grossed out my ears hurt. Anyway these fish behind us were HUGE, ugly and had teeth. They were much much bigger then Lincoln.

Chicago. It is such a beautiful city. 

The Field Museum has the biggest complete T-Rex. Her name is Sue. Thus we had to get a Sue Selfie.

After a wonderful day exploring we jumped on a plane to go to Arizona. 

For the flight over Linc got his carseat on. Thus he ate then slept the full 4 hours. 

Lately Linc does not like to sit back in his seat. He wants to sit up straight. I'm not looking forward to buying another carseat for him, they are Expensive. 

Arizona was so much fun. We had a very chill trip. I was just excited to be around my extended family. They all loved Lincoln. The Hansen girls were completely under his spell. I don't think his feet touched the ground while they were around. Someone was always holding him.

I got to go to the Gilbert Temple. It's been about a year since I got to go to the temple. Last year at this time I was so pregnant there was no way I could sit through a session without having to get up to go potty. Then we moved out here and Chicago is our temple. It would be a full day trip and we haven't been able to leave Lincoln that long yet. 

Sink Tubs....They are my FAVORITE

 Lincoln and his great-grandparents. 

We got home Saturday night. The flight home wasn't as wonderful since the plane was completely full but Lincoln made lots of friends. He played peekaboo with the lady behind us, and the lady next to us loved playing with him. The most exciting toy he had was the Skymall magazine. He spent 30 minutes laying on my lap ripping it to shreds. I tried to keep it tidy but it was hopeless. The flight attendants were super nice. 

We are home and back to the grind. I was not looking forward to work today but the moment I walked in I was tackled with hugs from my little friends. It made my day wonderful.