catch up

i'm feeling a blog marathon coming on. this is getting ridiculous how behind i am!

onward and upward!

on tuesday morning i took the little girls to gymnastics and then hurried home to get frankie on the bus for school. as soon as she left, lexi and i left home to move her out! she had gone out with friends monday night and didn't give us any instructions on what she wanted, so she was pretty upset that she hadn't really been able to say goodbye to matt, chris, addie, or laney since they had all gone to work/school, babysitters before she woke up. it was a bummer.

she was able to say goodbye to franks. she said "frankie, i'm leaving for school!" and frankie said "okay, bye!" haha. :) chris and lex are always in and out, so they don't understand that this is for good.

lisa and meghan had planned on leaving on monday, but after we talked, they decided to switch their tix to fly out with us on tuesday. we went to pick them up and had a few moments of panic because we didn't know that we'd be able to fit all their luggage in the jolly green!

they each had 2 big boxes, 2 big suitcases, and 2 carry-ons. it was a lot of work! we decided that i would drop the 3 of them at dulles with all the luggage, go park the car, then only i would have to take the shuttle back. it worked really well! they were able to check me in almost all the way so that when i arrived i just had to show my id and hand over my (lexi's) checked bags. we dropped our stuff off and let the girls choose first dinner. (as opposed to second dinner) then we were able to leisurely eat our chipotle while waiting for our plane.

meanwhile lady lanes was mugging on sweet adeline. she kills me! both of them do, actually!

i seriously don't like flying, and our first flight to denver was so bumpy!!! they had warned us that it would be and they were right. they had to have the flight attendants sit down several times because the turbulence was so bad. there were things falling from the shelves, hands were held, prayers were said, and maybe some tears were cried. 

we finally landed safely, but since we stayed on our plane, we got to move to the front. 

(ignore lexi's caption ((it's from a song)), i was going to crop it but forgot and i think it's a cute pic)

 

it was another full flight to vegas, but thankfully pretty short. southwest has been sneaky sneaky lately. this is the second time i've traveled where i've had an extra surprise stop. i think it's when you don't have to switch planes maybe, they don't have to list it as an actual stop. i was surprised and annoyed to find out we were stopping in denver before las vegas (before salt lake city!). 2 stops make for a long trip!

the vegas flight was running late which made for some stressful sprinting in the las vegas airport, only to realize that we'd not only figured our time zone wrong and had an extra hour, but also that that flight was delayed too. ugh! 

thank goodness for leftover chipotle!

thankfully that flight was pretty empty, so lexi and i each took a row, laid down, and slept. i was out before we'd even taken off. lex waited till after takeoff, but we both slept until we landed. :)

beautiful big moon from the airplane!

we finally touched down in salt lake city around 1am. we tried to get a cute "welcome to utah" pic, but it didn't work out too well and it was too late, and we were too tired to care.

thankfully jeff lives just 15 minutes from the airport, so we got there quickly, visited for awhile, and headed to bed around 2 or 3, which is 4 or 5 our time. nothing like traveling for 14 hours! ;)