Road Trip from Utah to California

I have a bunch of pictures from this so I thought it deserved its own post.

We took off from Utah Sunday morning, and made it to Beaver before going in for Sacrament meeting. 

   She loves having fun people to look at in the back seat of the car!

 Cora was already so excited to get out of the car (which didn't bode well). She immediately was hungry so I brought her into the Mother's Lounge and let her lay out.

 

 On hindsight, this face should have been a sign of what was going to happen... I'll let you guess from the fact that she is in a new outfit in the next picture.

I also had to change, so that when the rest of the family came out after sacrament meeting Cora and I looked like the unprepared tourists passing through.

 I love these cousin pictures!

 They thought Alyse was a HOOT!

  When Cora falls asleep in the car she always looks so serious.

 whoops!

 We spent a lot of time letting Cora look at herself in the camera... it kept her entertained.

 One of the babies was having a meltdown right about Zzyzyx Road, so we got to stop there. For a road I've been curious about my whole life, it was very underwhelming.

 My mom hopped in the car after that, and Cora just STARED at her for a long time. She loved her singing songs.

Our car wasn't that bad. Cora screamed for a little bit, but with frequent stops and lots of prayers for patience we made it. She even stayed asleep when we got to the house and slept for the rest of the night!

Dallin comes home!

So the moment we were waiting for- Dallin getting home!

So, the Salt Lake Airport has a rule of only immediate family waiting for the missionaries. And I can see why. We had close to 50 people there waiting for him... all "immediate" family. It was a great time! So exciting to be there, since I was about 18 hours too late to be at Austin's homecoming.

I even remembered to bring my camera this time, so we got TONS of pictures. (Not super focused because I had a younger cousin taking the pictures, but still...)

I had Cora meet Dallin... she didn't seem to care too much. She was grumpy.

 Then Dallin and Bethany... tender!

Afterwards we went to Leatherby's for some ice cream. It was a lot of fun, I even had Brandon call in but Dallin could barely hear him so we had to postpone that.

 Meeting Graham! The first baby he had held in 2 years.

 Graham and Cora liked being at home the next day, and the playmat. Well, at least Graham did.

 Dane also liked playing with Cora.

 Cora tolerated Dallin.

 But she really liked the ceiling fan at Grandma and Grandpa's house!

 She also liked discovering herself in the mirror. She laid there like that for a while.

One of the things I really wanted to get while I was out in Utah was a 4 generation picture with both sides of the family. Luckily I got some... unluckily Cora was less than cooperative.

 Hand in front of the face... nice.

 She had just woken up from a nap and was ANGRY.

Sorry Grandmas and Grandpas!

 It was a great weekend, and we were happy to see everyone and also happy to get to Irvine. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if Brandon were there.