Trip to Maryland

Jacob and I took a trip home to Maryland to visit my family and to be home for my good friend Amy's wedding. It was great because I got to visit with lots of friends and spend plenty of time with my family too. This was also the first time my dad and sisters were able to meet Jacob so they were all real excited, and my Grandpa came out for 2 weeks to visit him too.

So one of the first things I did when I got home was plan and go to Amy's Bachelorette Party. A small group of us went on a dinner cruise at the Baltimore Harbor and we had so much fun! It was really nice to be able to have my family babysit Jacob for the night too.

I was also Amy's Matron of Honor for her wedding, I was so excited to be a part of things- I had never been in a wedding before! But everything went so well and was so beautiful! I even got to show off Jacob to all my friends at the wedding since Erika brought him and took care of him through the ceremony and reception. And he did such a great job, I was worried about him being loud or disrupting things but everyone said they didn't hear him at all, so I was happy to be able to bring him.

And I spent a lot of fun time with my family. Luke surprised me by coming out for a couple days for the 4th of July weekend, so both our families had a bbq at Luke's parents house on the 4th, and later that night our family went to fireworks. It was Jacob's first time, but he enjoyed watching them, and luckily wasn't bothered by the sound.




Later that week my mom, grandpa, my sisters, and Jacob and I went to the DC zoo.

Of course Jacob had to wear his animal shirt to the zoo

and I had to take a picture in front of the turtles because I call Jacob a turtle head :)

My family also took a week trip up to Deep Creek Lake, a place my family has been many times before but this time it was with my parents, grandpa, my three sisters- Erika, Julia, and Andrea, and Jacob and me. We all really missed my two brothers that couldn't be there, and I still missed having Luke around, but we still had a good time and did lots of fun stuff.

We went jetskiing the first day and all took turns driving for the 2 hours we rented it. Here is my sisters on the jet-ski, Julia was so excited to drive since she had just gotten her liscense the week before. My little sister Andrea got to ride with all of us and said Julia went the fastest and was most fun, and I was the slowest, haha- I think I got too scared of flipping over and falling in! But it was still probably the most fun we had all week!

The next day we rented a pontoon boat and went tubing off it. It didn't go as fast as we would have liked but we still had a good time riding around. The most exciting part though was when my dad was riding all crazy and fell off, haha. And Jacob sat in his car seat the whole time, just enjoying the ride!

Later we went to a park at the beach and hung around. It was so pretty there we all actually drew pictures of the view from the beach. Even Jacob drew a picture!

The next day we went on a short walk to Swallow Falls.

And then we went to a park and rented canoes. I went with Andrea, but we got tired after a half hour, so we parked the canoe and went to go play at the park and in the sand at the small beach there.
Later that night we also went mini-golfing and my sisters and I went go-carting. It was their first time doing that, so that was a lot of fun too! So that was our trip! We drove the 3 hours home the next day and then I flew home to Denver the next morning.

baby was zonked out in all the long car drives and each airplane ride, works for me!

We had a great, long trip and can't wait until we can go back in January and see our family and friends again!