To the east coast we go

Today we made our trip to Baltimore... We left our house at 4:30am for our 6:00 flight. It all went pretty smoothly. I have to say that our boys did really well with all of the sleep deprivation and travel. Michelle and Lauritz were there to greet us at the airport and we were very excited to greet them. So far the weather feels quite nice with just the right amount of humidity in the air. Henry was a big fan of packing, though this was the look that he was giving me before we boarded the plane. He cried a fair bit on the second flight after his only 30 minute nap of the journey. He was determined to do whatever he could to stay awake.

Gavin took a nap on the second flight, so he was quite chipper when we arrived. He also got a little silly and loud, but seemed to amuse our fellow passengers.

Our layover was in Minneapolis, and this moose greeted us at the entrance of one of the stores there. Pretty funny, and quite huge.

Our week in photos

As we prepare to leave on our trip to the east coast this week, we had a low key couple of days just hanging around. Here are a few shots. Check back soon for the updates and pictures as we try to document our trip that starts Wednesday. :-)

Gavin with a few friends and neighbors eating popsicles on the porch on a perfect sunny day.

Gavin, Drew, Hannah and Lexi

This is where Gavin could be found reading his dinosaur book this week.
Instead of reading, Henry was parked on the couch with 2 remotes, watching a turned off TV and continuing to point his remotes at it as though it was quite interesting.
Ready to go outside and play.
Just relaxing and eating breakfast and looking handsome.Caleb spotted Henry trying to have a drink of chocolate while he was making Mother's Day Dinner today.

Zion National Park

This last weekend we decided that we should get out of town for a couple of days and do some camping at Zion National Park. It was a great escape. The weather was perfect during the day. Though it was quite windy at night, and made us think the tent might be blown off the ground.

Henry loved being outside, but made it was a little hard for us, as he laid in the dirt and crawled around eating rocks and dirt and sticks and whatever junk he could find. He was super filthy, and tired by the end of the two days. Gavin, on the other hand, had a fabulous time and would have kept camping forever if we had found him a way to watch Curious George once in a while. We took them on several hikes, and were impressed with their endurance over the very long day.

Carrying Henry in the backpack doesn't seemed to be getting easier, though it did keep him out of the dirt for some periods of time. He agreed to it, except when he thought he might have a chance of escape into some sort of mess.

Gavin's new favorite animals are lizards. There were tons of them running around on the hikes that we took, so we had to stop a lot of check them out. Gavin insisted that he was really strong and could catch one and hold onto it until we found a bottle to put it in, so it took some convincing before he agreed not to try and chase any down. He really was impressive on the hikes that we did, and walked about 95% of the time. As we were getting ready to go, he walked around singing to himself "We are going to camping! We are going to camping!"