our US trip

In October we headed back to the US to see our families. Our kids were absolutly wonderful on both of the plane rides. I am grateful that flying doesn't bother them at all. Auburn was SO excited to have her own seat and meal. Coming back we had some pretty bad jet lag. Conley, my super sleeper, decided that he wanted to go to bed at 2am for about four days, and Simon had to jump on a plane to Italy the day after we returned (we didn't know that was going to happen). It all made for an exciting return.
The pictures are in the wrong order. I always accidentally do this, sorry. Just so you know, we started in DC with my family, drove to New York to meet up with Simon's family. Thanks to Brent and Kirsten for letting us crash with you in DC and thanks to Paula for letting all of us share your wonderful studio in New York.

After we spent a day in NY, we drove up to Conneticut to see the leaves with Scott, Sasha and Seth. The leaves were in their peak and it was just beautiful!

Seth took some pictures of us as a family and I will post those later, but here is Auburn with Daddy.

We took in a Red Bulls soccer game. Our friend Rob met up with us at the game.



The Johnson family. Sierra is twice Conley's age and weighs almost 8 lbs less.
It was our first time meeting Sierra. Auburn just followed her around and loved her

and mothered her.
Conley lovin' it!

Auburn, Conley and their cousin Sierra

Seth hooked us up. We were able to go to the 49th floor of this building overlooking Ground Zero. We were the only people on the floor and it was an amazing view of NY.

On our way to New York from DC we stopped in Philly. I had never been there before.
We only had a quick two hours, but managed to see a few things.

In DC we went to see the National Arboretum with my family. Here is Auburn enjoying the fountain.

Simon and I were able to go to the Washington DC temple one morning. It was wonderful!

We headed to the zoo and Auburn loved it, especially the Pandas!

Here are my parents with five of their six grandchildren. It was near to impossible to take a picture with them all looking at the camera. I hope someone else got a better picture than I did.
Auburn had SO much fun with her cousins and still talks about playing with them.

Thanks Mom and Dad and Scott and Sasha for flying out to see us! We didn't get to see everyone, but hopefully we can catch the rest of my siblings the next time out.... or you can come see us!