family time!

Well, well..

These last few weeks sure have been eventful!!

My sister, her husband, and my nephew came out to visit all the way from Iowa. What a long drive for a two year old.. but he was a champ and did very well!!

We did all the usual things

yellowstone/west yellowstone montana

jackson hole

mesa falls

bear world

it was a fun and fast few days, and call it pregnancy hormones if you will, but I had a really hard time after they left. It really hits you sometimes how hard it is to be away from your home and your family. Not a lot of my family has been out here to Idaho except my grandparents, so it was really nice to be able to show someone else where I have been living for the past 5 years. Not to mention it was a great time with my sister. Shes always been kind of my "mom-away-from-mom" and we never really had much of a chance to be just sisters, so the time with her and her family was really great to have... seeing as Zach and I dont really have any plans to move anywhere close to Iowa.

After they left to go back home, I had a day to pack up my things and then
I headed to Florida to meet up with Zach. It was a really long road to get there

first:

I took a shuttle to salt lake

waited 2 hours in the airport

took a 1 and 15 min flight to denver

then rushed to my next gate..hurry and got a sandwich..

then flew 3 hours and 20 min to Tampa. (with a 45 min wait on the plane because the wind decided to change directions screwing up the flight plan for all the planes...)

then waited 20 min in the airport to meet Zachary!!

then we headed to our hotel and stayed up wayy too late catching up and of course me having to eat again!

We had a really fun time in Florida. We visited some beaches just south of tampa and headed to Maderia which is the beach my family always goes to. Then we headed back up north to my moms. It was great to see her happy Florida house! We spent a little time in Orlando,  but mostly just hung out and relaxed! Zach got to go fishing with my uncle Al and got a little fishing fix until he gets back out here. We had a really fun time and really didnt want to leave! I wasnt sad to leave the humidity however! yuck... Thank you dry heat!

The traveling back was almost unbareable and I seriously thought I could cry on more than one occasion! But I made it... and then headed back to work the next day... lovely I know.