Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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






7 comments:

Laura McAllister said...

Yay! So happy for you guys. One of my best friends and her husband are moving to Parker to start med school the same time as you. I will have to text you her name and number so you can meet up.

Jasmine said...

It looks like your trip to visit Nat and Joe was a lot of fun! I'm glad Evie was good on the plane. I haven't personally experienced this (since both my girls are good flyers), but I've heard that flying with a crying baby is the worst because you don't have a whole lot of options on how to soothe them.

Yay for Brandon! That's so exciting! And Colorado will be so much cooler than St. George. :) Good luck with the move!

Julie said...

Can't believe E is walking already! So crazy! She'll be getting into all sorts of mischief now. Congrats on med school in Colorado. Nice that it's not too far away. When will you be moving?

Sharna said...

I'm so excited for you guys to move to Colorado! I love that place!

stephanie hammer said...

You are so cute! Your whole family is just adorable-- and your pictures are incredible. I hope someday my family is as gorgeous as yours!

Ted and Breauna Housel said...

This is great news! Congrats on the walking and Colorado...Your little one is the cutest!!!

Booth Confessions said...

How fun! Colorado will be a fun place to live! Your baby is so cute!