Welcomings

We made our last trip to Vegas until the baby comes.  Its so weird to think that.  Only a few short 9 weeks until the due date.  As you know most Vegas trips are not just us loafing around, but more of a crazy pack everything in type of trip.  And this one was just that.  But there were lots of photos... :)

The drive down wasn't too bad.  Didn't have to stop as frequently as I imagined it'd be by this point.  Anyways, we drove down Friday morning.  Once in Vegas and the car unloaded we didn't have much time to just do nothing.  My mom was doing everything to get her house ready for the baby shower.  Kyle of course wasn't going to stick around for this.  He took a TV and the wii over to the Hansens to prepare for his guy night.  Guests finally arrived.  There were a lot of relatives and friends who came.  It was great to see them since on our normal trips we don't get to see much other than our immediate families.
Well Wendy was the photographer so I'll share some of the pictures.

Audrey & Katy before the guests arrive

Katy & Wendy

Grandma Thompson and Aunt Kaye

 Left: Momma Hansen and Aunt Georganne Right: Aunt Jana, who just won the Scattergories game

Present Time...Left: The first little outift Right: A blanket that my Aunt June crocheted.  It's very thick and soft

 A soft blanket play thing 

Left: Grandma LeBaron was able to make it Right: Kim seems so happy about her picture being taken

Left: A blanket my Grandma Thompson crocheted.  I have a matching one she had made all us grandkids from when I was a lot younger.  Right: GO REBELS!!! 

 Left: My cousin once removed, Piper, found the giraffe in one of my bags and loved it so much.  It was sad to take it away from her.  Right: Amy brought little Michael.  He was such a good behaved baby.

  It was a great baby shower and so fun to see everyone.  There were a LOT more photos, but I thought I'd spare ya'll saying there's a lot more to our weekend.
The next morning we got to go pick Tyler up from the airport.  He was back from his mission to Argentina!

Audrey had made a sign for him at home

Just chilling and waiting

He's HOME!  Mom and Pop Hansen were so happy to see him.

PS the guy's face in the back is great.  There's like 3 photos he's in.

 Talking about how scruffy he was...he had been travelling since Tuesday non stop, and now it was Saturday

Haven't seen each other in 3 years 

Typical missionary shoe....holes, dirt, and just busted up everywhere

The almost complete Hansens...just missing Trevor

After the airport we had one of the foods that Tyler requested....Little Caesars pizza.  We got to hang out with the Hansens and hear Tyler's stories until my family called.  My brother and his family had now arrived in from Texas.  We hadn't seen them since last April when they moved out to Texas.  So we hurried over.  When we arrived little Jane was asleep, and everyone else was playing games.  So we joined in and just played Dominion and Carcassone.

Sunday was Tyler's talk.  He hadn't even been home for 24 hours.  He did a great job though.  We stayed a little at the Hansens, and then went over to join my family again.  In the evening though we joined Kyle's cousins to celebrate Preston's birthday and Tyler's homecoming.  

Kyle teasing Jane with the alligator puppet.  She would run to mom or dad, and do fake little cries of distress.  It was pretty funny.

Mid action shot of Preston blowing out the candles in one breath

Interesting photo from the night

Since the Hansens either had to work or go to school on Monday, except for Tyler we hadn't planned anything really.  There were a few errands, but they were done quickly.  

On Tuesday it was time to go back home.  My family actually drove up too.  There was something they were going to do in Provo, along with visit with my sister who goes to BYU.  It was a long drive back up, but we made good time.  In Provo, we all went out to dinner at Tucano's.  Here...we stuffed our bellies full.  That grilled pineapple is so good.

Kyle...eagerly awaiting all the food

Taking a family picture inside of it...all together for a while, and for a while to come

Another family picture...but with stuffed and bulging stomachs

After dinner we went back to my parent's motel room.  Melynn had fun playing with Jane and the rest of us really didn't do much.  We couldn't stay long, and soon had to finish the rest of our journey home.

Such a great weekend.  Thanks to all those that I saw at the baby shower!