El Rio Guadalupe

We went camping on the Guadalupe River in late October with our wonderful friends, Tyler, Maddie, &Chloe McLemore. It was the perfect trip! It was a little chilly but warm enough to swim the next day in the river. (Actually it was still a little cold to swim. I swam across the river to get Tyler's line out of the water, Jude swam on accident, and Dan "swam" all in the name of fishing.) ;) We told stories and ate by the campfire the first night. The mamas and babies enjoyed a nice walk in the morning while the boys had gone off fishing. We met them at the river and then both Maddie & I caught fish. :) It was pretty exciting. We all caught fish, though! Jude experiences his first no-nap day that day and it was PRETTY traumatizing. WHEW!! 

It was such a fun, relaxing trip! It is an absolutely gorgeous place. There is a beautiful mural scene in the temple here right from this river. It is a little heaven on earth!

Tyler spent hours tending to his fryer!

She's probably THE CUTEST.

He for real gives us kisses like this all the time. We LOVE IT.

His first wings...

We were back in South Carolina for two nights. We mowed the lawn, watched a Taylor Swift documentary movie, went to church on Sunday, and headed off to the airport to go to Las Vegas for the summer! This poor little boy was so sick of the car and his stroller and generally the lack of structure in his life. He did great on the plane ride and we were excited to get him home where he could just stretch and not have to travel anywhere. 

We were lucky we had a row all to ourselves on our flights. We ran into a bird on the first flight so we had to wait around and switch planes, but we made it okay. :)

the sneeze progression

The sweet flight attendant brought Jude his very own cup! (cups, because he kept dropping them) He loved it.