A LONG 3 weeks... and special announcement!!!!

Well Evie took her FIRST plane ride the other day! 

Brandon, Evie, Me and my Mom all flew out to Kirksville MO, to visit my sister and brother-in-law!

Evie loved the plane ride!

...

okay she loved that there were people behind her and in front of her that played with her the entire trip

While we were in Kirksville Evie took a big step!

{literally}

SHE LEARNED HOW TO WALK!

9 months old and walking like a champ! 

Our kids a genius!

 While we were there Brandon took off with Joe and did "man things"

Ping Pong, Watched Man Flicks, played pool

and what man week would be complete with out sitting in on a couple of surgeries..

Joe is in his 3rd year of Medical School so Brandon went with him to some of his surgeries

Meanwhile...

The girls stayed back at the house and sewed our little hearts out!

nat and I made 

baby blankets 

baby slings

fixed joes sunday clothes

a purse

and more!

We helped Nat plant new flowers in her beds around her cute little house

 She took a couple of hours to pull out this MASSIVE weed!!! 

yes in the pic on the right

.that.is.a.weed.

We had a couple of fun dinners, one of which was a little picnic of shiscabobs out in the backyard

we were there for a total of 9 days but our trip wasn't over yet...

..........................................

Brandon has spent the last year interviewing at Medical Schools and he has FINALLY picked one!!

I would like to announce that in June the Valantine Trio will be moving to....

Brandon has chosen to attend Medical School at Rocky Vista University in Parker Colorado!

I am so happy for him!

We went out to Colorado to find a house to buy with absolutely ZERO luck

The housing market in Denver is CRAZY good still and you literally cannot find a house to buy there.

So  long story short it was a LONG 5 days of mostly 

this....

{In the car all day}

 This crazy gal was SO GLAD to get home to St. George!

even though..

guess what?!

our air conditioning is out AGAIN this summer!

go figure. 

This week was Aunt Dani's birthday so we went and played Tennis

see... in Salt Lake when it's 97 degrees outside, we go to the lake

in St. George when it's 97 degrees outside, they go play tennis at noon?....

Me and E hung out in the shade :)

and then we went to Walmart where we found this kiddie pool for 7$!

.fabulous.

Evie was in heaven!

I could barely get her out of it when she started shaking for the sun going down!

It's getting so hot in St. George already I can't believe it! 

Moving day is also rapidly approaching and we have so much we need to do before then!

(lake powell)

xo, Meg

Spring Break Part 2

Brandon has been playing in this softball league this spring and it's been fun to go and watch his games. 

. Evie of course loves getting to be outside and sociable .

 

Brandon of course has already injured himself more times than I want to admit to lol

...as for the rest of our spring break...

The ENTIRE Valantine family (including the dogs) went for a red rock hike up by Gunlock Res. 

It was so nice to get some sun and some exercise! 

I was so glad to get charley out of the house too!

That dog has been driving us nuts with needing to always have the attention over the baby!

She thinks she's a baby too.

.sheesh.

Matt (my Father-In-Law) went out and got a rock crawler...

.....

Our family and the McAllisters wanted to go out jeeping on saturday and climb up to a cliff to watch the Southern Utah Air Show.

(It's the one with the Blue Angel jets that fly way close together)

I was hesitant because my father-in-law thinks he's Evel Knievel sometimes..  

after one week of coaxing I FINALLY agreed to let Evie go on this outing 

AS LONG 

as Matt agreed upon and followed precisely the terms I laid out :)

 We went and we had a blast!

Matt did great and followed all the rules ;)

I'd go again in a heart beat!

  Our neighbors, Alli and Kc brought their jeep and came out for some fun that day too

 The air show was AMAZING!!

We were really far from the airport so the jets would fly over the airport and then go out and do a U turn to go back to the airport so whenever they flew out to turn around they'd be RIGHT in front of the cliff we were on! It was NUTS!

And of course i'm an idiot and didn't bring my SLR!

These were taken from our little 90$ point and shoot so that kinda shows how close they were!

It was so fun to hang out with the family all week!

They all work, go to school or live in Cedar City so we never get to do fun things like this all together!

What a blast!

Well tomorrow Evie is going on her FIRST plane ride!

My Mom, Brandon and I are going out to Missouri to visit my sheeshter!

yahoo!!

more to come on that!

xo, Meg