The Sprouls: Utah/ San Diego: Part 1

So on June 24th, My brother in law Allen and his beautiful wife Britany had their first born Cameron James Sproul. He is the first nephew for us so it was very exciting! We were able to go out to Utah for this little guy's blessing and had the best time! Britany and Allen are such good parents and Cam is so tiny and sweet! He is such a good baby and it was so fun being able to hold a newborn and watch how fast he grew just in the short time we got to see him! He has dark curly hair and little skinny limbs! I should also mention he is almost a pound lighter than Kaylee was when she was born. He was 7 lbs 5 oz and Kaylee was 8 lbs 3 oz. So Kaylee was never as small out of the womb as Cam was when I saw him. SO CUTE! I love little babies! (Also, No I didn't get baby hungry while I was out there...)

This is a picture of Cam after he was born. I hope Allen doesn't mind that I stole it from his facebook. :-) It was fun being able to spend time with their family shopping, eating pizza and taking walks at the canyon, and breakfast at Joe's. So fun! Oh another thing is the camera I brought with me ended up being broken so all the pictures I post of this vaca was either by phone or someone else's shot.

My parents drove up from San Diego to spend a weekend in Utah and drive me and Kaylee back to San Diego at the end of the trip. While Allen, Britany, Cam, Don and Jayne went to a family reunion, we were able to visit with my Uncle Cary, Aunt Pia, cousin Michael and Annika and my cousin Mianna. We had dinner with most of them the friday night we were there and then the next day had lunch with all of them including Mianna. I hadn't seen then in probably 5 or 6 years? It has been way too long. It was nice to see all of them and meet my cousin's new wife Annika! She is SO amazing and fits in the fam well I think.

Dinner at Uncle Cary and Aunt Pia's house. Left to Right: Charlie Connors, Sarah Connors, Kaylee Sproul, Curtis Connors, Cindy Sproul, Kevin Sproul, Annika Connors, Michael Connors, Johnny Strubell, Johnny's girl Stephanie Smith, Cary Connors.

My Aunt Pia captured this precious moment with Kaylee. So cute!

The road trip from Utah to San Diego went really well. The first day we brought Kevin to the airport :-( and then headed toward St. George, UT. We decided to stop by Walmart to pick up a few things on the way and ran into Don, Britany, and Allen which was really funny! So I got to say one last goodbye before heading out. We also stopped at BYU to check out the ROTC riffles my brother works with there. It was interesting, and we got to see the inside of the gym/basketball court. There is an indoor track for running there which I am sure is common, but I had never seen one.

The hotel in St. George was AWESOME! We got a good deal at this hotel (I don't remember the name) and there was a nice pool with a jacuzzi and a hot breakfast in the morning. It was fun swimming with Kaylee and the fam. Poor Kaylee was a little sleepy but it was worth it to get to swim and have a chance to go in the hot tub! They also had a huge selection for their free hot breakfast in the morning. There was eggs, bacon, sausage, beef and bean burritos, hash browns, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, cereal, waffles (both big and mini), juice, and hot chocolate! Oh my goodness! I have never seen a free breakfast this good. Plus the seats were comfy, and they even had a high chair for Kaylee to sit in. The server girls were in love with Kaylee. I even had Kaylee melt their hearts with blowing kisses. I made it look like it was her idea. Kaylee now can do a few "tricks" when she feels like doing them on command. sometimes I will whisper behind her, "blow kisses" and she will do it. Sometimes she does do it all on her own though which is way awesome! Anyway, the next day was the long one and she did fantastic.

When we got to San Diego, We put Kaylee on a blanket while we unpacked. As you can see, My dad loved having his granddaughter there. It was funny because at first she wouldn't even touch the grass. She got over that by the end of the trip.