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Oklahoma Vacation (and video!)

// June 8th, 2009 // fun

Haven’t posted a blog in almost a week, which is a crazy amount of time for me. I have stuff to say people! But the last seven days have been crazy busy, including a day trip up to Williams, Arizona for me, and then Jina’s family reunion in Oklahoma over the weekend.

The trip was a big deal around these parts, mainly because it was Lyla’s first trip on an airplane. Yikes. Scary. But good news…it was a breeeeeze.

We used the Baby Bjorn at the airport to lug her around, which was honestly the best idea we had. They don’t even make you take it off to go through security, so it made everything so easy.

She was going nuts looking around and taking it all in. We fed her some food at the Burger King inside the terminal, then when we boarded about 90 minutes later, Jina breast fed her on the runway/takeoff, which kept her calm and then put her right to sleep.

And she slept for the next two hours and only was awake for the final 15-20 minutes of our decent into Tulsa.

It was completely easy and stress-free. She even smiled and laughed at the little girl behind us when we were pulling into the gate in Tulsa.

We were picked up by Jina’s parents and made our way to Grove, which was about an hour or so away. A nice little town next to Grand Lake. Golfed on Saturday morning, ate a lot of good food, and then I returned on Sunday afternoon.

Jina and Lyla drove to Texas with her sister, nephew and parents until Wednesday, when they’ll go to Memphis overnight and then fly home on Thursday.

Lyla was a hit all weekend…people couldn’t get enough of her, and she didn’t fuss or anything in front of them. The only hard part was getting her to sleep Friday night, and then a bit of “awake time” on Sunday morning around 3:30am.

We took her swimming, which you can see in the fun little video below. We got her a cute little swimsuit and she took to the water like a champ, even if it was just dipping her in up to her waist.

I’m home now by myself for four days and not sure how I feel about it. I missed them terribly Sunday night and the house just feels empty.

Praying for their safe return on Thursday…cannot wait to get my girls back!

So the video is below and you can see a bunch of pictures from the weekend right here!