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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Cousins

Like I said in my last post, we love to stay with the Evan's Clan. Mason is also fortunate enough to be able to be so close in age to his cousin Julia. Here are some cute pictures of them playing one night we stayed at their house in April.

Julia wanted to hold his hand...

Do you love his Texas Longhorn pacifier? Ha ha ha. He loves to hold on to "Lawrence" as he sucks away.

Time to catch up!!!

Now that we are finally settled in Salt Lake, and I have a bunch of pictures to share, I guess I can get started!!!

First a post on our 38 hour road trip from Texas to Utah. Blah.

Here is a picture of Chris holding Mason the night before we left. I just think it is funny how his eyes are peeping out over Chris's shoulder.

The drive was not as bad as it sounds I guess. It was very nice that we had lots of stops to make on the way. The first day was the longest. We drove from Houston to Kansas City, Missouri to stay with Chris's parents. It was a lot of fun to see them and for them to meet Mason for the first time. Here are some pictures we took there:

A picture with Great Grandma Brown. He was having a hard day after the 14 hour road trip so GG was a little nervous as well.

A four generation picture. Too bad we couldn't get Mason to smile.

A picture with Grandpa Brown

While we were there we had Mason's blessing. It was sweet. Just me, Grandma Brown, Grandpa Brown and Chris giving the blessing in his parents house.

Next Stop: Denver. We were very fortunate to be able to stay with Chris's sister Lisa and our brother in law Stephan. It was so great to see them and to hang out with our niece Abigail.

Chris and Mason after an exhausting drive.

The next day was Easter and we drove to Provo. We were very excited to get there for many reasons: A) You gotta love the whole Evans clan, and they had new baby Julia that we had not seen yet, B) The Hills were there as well!!! We miss all of our nieces and nephews so it was so good to see all of them! C) The main part of our travelling was over. Phew!

Here are some pictures from Easter day with all the cousins:

Mason and Julia are 1 month apart exactly. It is going to be fun now that we live by the Evans's to see these two kiddos grow up together. They are fighting already....

Who knew these boys could be so gentle ;) ha ha just kidding Laura! I know they are, just not with each other!! Dan is missing from this picture, but we love those Hill boys and hope we get to see them more!

This little diva is our niece Katie. She takes after Aunt Laura I believe. ;)

Chris got all the cousins doing a sit up contest and push up contest. The Winner? Dan beats everyone by a mile!!! Great job Dan! He is the silent threat in that household I can tell.

After all of that fun, the next day we made it to Benson to stay with my family. We were there for a month. It went by too fast. But here are some other fun pictures we took:

Mason with Great Grandma Hansen. Mason loves going to Grandma and Grandpa Hansen's. We went there a lot while we were staying with my parents, and he falls right to sleep when Grandma picks him up. He also likes to stare and Grandpa and smile :)

We were also able to go to Wyoming and stay with Erin and Snug. Here is a picture of Mason and Chris in Jackson Hole. Brrr...cold. Mason is not used to cold weather!!

Mason's first road trip at 1 month old included him going to 8 states in one week! Not too bad at 1 month old!! He was in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Utah?.....Really?

I have no pictures for this post. Don't get me wrong, I have TONS of pictures I NEED to post, but we are without internet for another week. I am using my moms computer right now, and it doesn't have any of my pictures on it. Why you ask?

If you would have told me 2 months ago I would be living in Utah I would have told you you were crazy! When I left Utah 7 years ago, I didn't think I would be back to live very soon. When I married Chris 4 years ago, I NEVER thought we would EVER live in Utah again. Not that we don't like Utah. We both love it and think it is a very beautiful and nice place to live. We just thought it didn't have anything for us job wise.

We were wrong.

Chris has had his resume all over the country. Salt Lake City took the bait. And here we are. He accepted the job last week, flew back to Houston to get our stuff from storage, and I found us a place to live. I found a place, signed the lease, hooked up our electricity and gas, and then sat back crossing my fingers that Chris would like the place.

He did. We both love it. We love the house, we love the area, we love being by the mountains, and we LOVE being so close to family!!! Mason finally has his own room and we are getting into the swing of things. I can't wait for spring to be in full swing (What is with this snow? This 2-year Texan, 5 year Southern Cali girl is having trouble adjusting!)

For all of our friends in, around or near Salt Lake----Let's play!!! I can't wait to see you all!!!

And because I can't stand not putting some sort of picture, here is Big Cottonwood Canyon that we now live by :)

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Small Update

Well, I am horrible. Mason is a month old now, and I can't believe how much he has grown. I do not have any pictures downloaded right now, but I will hopefully get some on here this week. I meant to do it last week, but it has been a whirlwind of things this week. Chris was laid off from his job at HP on Monday, and being that our lease is up on April 1st, we had some things to decide. We came to Houston for a job. Well, no job, so we are leaving for now. We did not want to renew our lease if we had a chance to go somewhere else. Don't get us wrong though, he is looking for any job, so if he happens to get another one here, we will be grateful and take it. I am personally hoping to be headed back west. Between Doctors appointments, and trying to pack our apartment and Mason not feeling well and wanting me to hold him all the time, I just didn't have the time to update pictures.

We have some great friends here. Most of them showed up yesterday and spent their Saturdays moving all of our belongings into a storage shed. Where are we going you ask? Well, we will embark on a 32 hour roadtrip on Thursday morning (not sure how I feel about this with a 1 month old, but oh well). We will drive to Kansas city, Missouri and stay with my wonderful in laws. We can't wait. We are going to stay a couple of nights there. They have not seen Mason yet, so it should be a lot of fun. Then Saturday morning we will drive to Denver where we will stay the night with Chris's sister, Lisa. This should also be good. We don't get to see them enough. (Kirsten, if you are reading this, I wish we were staying longer so we could meet up, but it looks like we will get there late, then leave early in the morning. Bummer) Then we are gong to drive to Provo on Sunday where we will get to see Chris's other sisters and all the nieces and nephews on Easter!! Yay! Then on Monday we will conclude our trip in Benson, where we will be staying with my parents. How long you ask? Not sure. Maybe 3-4 weeks! It all depends on when Chris finds a job.

So, any of my Utah friends want to get together? I would love to see some of you while I am there!

And because I can't do a post without pictures I will leave you with a few from when my family was here at the first of March:

Sleeping Cousins

We went to Brazos State Park while my family was here. It is just South of Houston and hey have TONS of Alligators just roaming around. They were even on the trail!!

Baby Alligator

Mama Alligator

And a couple Family pics....

Friday, March 5, 2010

Some pictures of Mason

So for some reason blogger won't let me upload my pictures for this blog. So I had to steal some pictures from my sisters facebook pages. Weird. I don't know what the problem is, but here are some pictures of Mason. I can't believe he is two weeks old already! Just a warning, there are a lot of picture, so don't feel bad if you don't make it through all of them :)