Utah Weekend

This past weekend we decided to go to Utah to visit Luke's family since we hadn't seen them in awhile and wanted Jacob to spend some time with his cousins. I was a little worried about the drive, not so much about keeping Jacob entertained for 8 hours, but for me too since I was 8.5 months pregnant. But luckily everything went very smoothly and we had a fun weekend.

Luke got off work a little earlier on Thursday and we took off around 3:30 and made it into Rifle by 7. Jacob did great on the drive and kept himself occupied with toys.

It was nice to split up the drive there in two days, it gave us some time to relax. After we got dinner, we went to our hotel and took Jacob swimming- he loved it! I'm pretty sure it was the highlight of his weekend and is still asking us when he can go swimming again.
The next morning Luke worked out at the gym, took Jacob swimming one last time, and then we had breakfast at the hotel. The hotel felt pretty empty too since we were the only ones at the pool and at breakfast, but that was actually kind of nice. While I finished packing our bags Luke took Jacob to the playground outside and then we were back on the road by 10.

We got to Luke's sister's house Friday afternoon and stayed until Sunday morning. Luke's parents flew in Friday night and we were able to visit with Luke's other sister who lives out there as well, so it was nice to see everyone even though it was a quick weekend. We mostly just hung around Luke's sister's house so I didn't take many pictures, but I got a couple of Jacob with his cousins.
Owen, Andrew, Christian, and Jacob
Jacob loved playing with their toys and cars, and watching Cars- even on vacation he couldn't miss a day of watching his favorite movie!
Jacob did really great on the drive back too - sleeping, watching his movie, and playing quietly- until the last 30 minutes, but that's practically to be expected. Actually, Jacob always does much better than I expect at things like this- sleeping away from home was another one of those things that I worried about since Jacob is in a bed now, but again he impressed me and did great. It's weird thinking that when we make the trip out again in a few months we'll have another baby with us- hopefully everything will go as smoothly then too!