Top ten

We enjoyed our trip!  Here is a top ten list of trip highlights:

1-Seeing Amy in the airport and giving her a hug before she flew back to Utah.  She passed the baton to us and I love that we share that sweet family with another family we like so much.

2-Hearing QE squeal excitedly and run to the door when we knocked.

3-Holding the Young Prince.  He is so tiny (even though he isn't that tiny).  He is very chilled out and calm.  He cracked us up by opening his eyes occasionally and giving us a side eye.  His resting face seems to be one of suspicion and we're here for it.  He is adorable and we love him!

4-Letting Braeden and Anna nap.  

5-Playing with QE.  It involved a lot of magna tiles, bows in my hair and blankets covering me (completely, even my face) when I was sick and she was the doctor.

4-Trying my best to remember princess stories and make up spooky stories because she loved to have stories told to her and those were her genre of choice.  (Spooky stories for a three year old are a little tricky, because they can't actually be spooky....)

5-Helping to fold the impossibly small laundry of YP.  But then Braeden brought me YP to hold, so forget the laundry.

6- Enjoying the vocabulary of QE.  We were talking about lunch and she said, "What else will we have?" I said maybe we could have some oranges and she said, "Yes, obviously we will have oranges."  At a recent well child visit, the doctor asked if she had started using complete sentences....

7-Reading to QE.

8-Spending time with Adam.  He is my favorite travel companion and I love being grandparents together.

9-Introducing QE to her first milkshake.  She kept saying, "This is delicious!"

10-Witnessing the parenting of Braeden and Anna and the good life they have created.  Braeden married well.  (So did Anna.). I love those two--those four!