Our Trip to NC

Dustin and I got back from our trip to NC on Tuesday. It was really sad leaving, but I am so glad to be home and sleeping in my own bed. It was especially nice being able to stay for Monday and be there when most of the family had left to go back to their lives. When I think about going "home" to see family, I always think of everyone being there and having fun all the time. Obviously, that isn't realistic. On Monday I got to go to my sisters house to hang out and be around her kids. She was off doing Visiting Teaching for church, her husband was working, the boys were fighting, and the oldest was getting in trouble for being on the Wii for 3 hours. And on top of that, my best friend is a "grown up" now and has a real job. I can't just drag her away to go play. Normal life right? So now that I think about it...what am I really missing now that I'm not in NC? 

It was REALLY hot the whole time we were there. Not 90's hot...it was in the 100's the majority of the time we were there. We were really excited to come home to cooler weather, except that my father informed us the morning we were leaving that it was 104 in Salt Lake and it was in the 70's that day. Rotten luck, huh? 

Here are some cute pictures from when we went to a kids park/play ground/wild life center that we went to. Excuse the grossness and sweat...like I said, it was in the 100's. 

My niece is gorgeous! I just love her! 

I honestly don't know what I was thinking. I didn't want the littlest in the back where I couldn't grab here, just in case something happened. So the 9 year old that could help was in the back while I did all the work to go around the pond. I apparently didn't think that one through very well. :)