Conference day #1

Today was a raining, laundry, conference kind of day. This morning, neighbor mike texted and asked if the girls could come play. Since I was still in my robe and jams, I walked them down the street and let them cross and go to the door by themselves. They felt like they were hot stuff. There's Addie at the door, then Frankie and Delaney walking up. 
While they were gone, I sharked the wood floors. I've come around to Matt's way of thinking that a home with clean floors smells better.

These crazies came home at noon and we happily set up for conference bingo. And taquitos. Laney laughed and laughed about how she posed with her taquito in her mouth.

We sent this to the boys to show them what they were missing. Matt worked the navy, and bubba went hoco dress shopping with brenna, her mom, and grandma.

More conference hijinx. There were so many good talks, but I especially loved president uchtdorf and sister Marriott.

Lauren came over and we conference called Jennifer to hammer out a budget proposal for PTA. Much different from last year when I was a budget committee of 1. Grace came too and the little girls had fun playing. 

We watched the last hour of afternoon conference and then the girls took baths while I spent over an hour on the phone with sprint to get Lexi's new phone. Just another Saturday night. 

And looking back to Tuesday. We'd spent the night with aunt Jeanne and uncle ray. I wasn't sure how Delaney would do with sleeping on our trip, because she loves her bed so much, but she was great and really loved sleeping with momma. She is a bed hog though. 

Aunt Jeanne made us chocolate chip pancakes (Delaney's request) and took us to the airport. They spoiled Delaney and she loved her time there! So much so that by tuesday morning she didn't want to leave. She said she didn't want to leave. She didn't want to stay. She didn't want to be anywhere. Poor girl was done with traveling. Thankfully she got over that pretty quickly and went to the airport easily enough. 

We saw this cool giant Halloween bear at the airport.

And we got yummy auntie Annie's.

And lots of Asian tourists took pictures of this cute little traveler.

She was good about it and even cheesed it up a little, until later when one of them reached out to touch her face, which was weird, but it was just a little harmless caress. But Laney wasn't having any of it. She yelled "stop!" and stormed off. Little sassy pants.

And then, after a super fun trip and lots of fun visiting, we were finally back on the plane to fly home. We were lucky enough to get two non-stop flights, which never happens!

4 hours of flying fun with this crazy lady.

She was such a good little traveler. Aunt Jeanne had gotten her some cute sticker and coloring books, and she totally loved them.

She did do this funny thing again. She didn't do it on our flight out to SLC, but the flight home was more turbulent, so out came the hand on head and hand on tummy. I would love to know where this anti-nausea remedy came from.

Here's the first time she did this back in April.

She did this for a good hour, if not closer to 2. My good little sleeper. 

After four bumpy hours our wheels touched down in rainy Maryland. We rented a cart and got creative to transport all our gear and waited half an hour for our shuttle. Finally, another hotels shuttle asked if I wanted a ride, and we said yes! 

home. (:

Our flight landed at 5:30, and we weren't on our way home till 7. Then it was raining so hard and visibility was so bad that it took much longer than the normal hour and 40 minutes to get home. We found out later that bwi broke a record with the rain on Tuesday. Figures. Thankfully our flight and drive were both safe and we were soooo happy to make it home. Traveling is super fun, but there really is no place like