Florida Trip

Chad decided to attended a conference in Miami in April. It made for a good excuse go to Florida to visit my family. As always, we had a great time being with everyone and took lots of pictures. I decided to break them up into several different posts.

Emily was in good spirits when we left and had a great time on the bus ride from the parking lot to the airport. She kept signing bus and plane as she looked out the window. However, the plane ride was a bit rough. Emily spent most of her time on the plane trying to escape past Chad into the aisle. As a toddler, Emily has now considers it her right to explore her surroundings whenever she wants. One of the main problems was that we forgot Emily's pacifier in the car, and she let us know the WHOLE WAY THERE that she was not happy about it. All things considered, she did pretty well. I called my mom from the airport before take-off and she had one waiting for her when we arrived in Orlando. Unfortunately, I told her the wrong kind to buy and Emily refused to use it. So after loading up the luggage into the car, we made a mad dash to Wal-mart to buy her a pacifier. Things were much better after that...for everyone.


The next day, we got to visit with everyone. We had a wonderful time hanging out with my family. It was especially fun, because "the cousins" got to spend some time together. Erin and Faron brought Brayden's Kangaroo Climber for all the kids to play with. It was a HUGE hit, and ended up being their entertainment for the whole trip! Emily was a little timid at first, but once she got comfortable with it, we couldn't tear her away from it.

Brayden and Travis showing Emily the ropes!

Emily testing out the slide with Daddy