Pretty hair, pretty dress, pretty smile
First baseball practice! Maxwell is playing t-ball.
He's got these red parts on his skin. Not sure what is going on with him.
Look how his whole arm is red... The rash is getting better but now there's this going on.
We went to get his haircut and for the first time I let him do it alone and I stayed in the seats by the door. He did great, of course.
So, months ago we had planned to go to Vegas (along with Brittany's family) to celebrate Marriann's 60th birthday with a party. Well, then Dad and Marriann's relationship was struggling and they decided to separate and were going to get a divorce. So, we were uninvited from the party. We still had tickets to Vegas so decided to go anyway and just have a little Nelson reunion and spend time with Dad who was down.
I had the two kids and Peter got to sit by himself.
We made it to dad's and Emmalyn was super excited about Sheba. Sheba is getting old so she wasn't as keen on being petted as she used to be but she was still very sweet. Emmalyn just loves dogs.
Dad had the pool and hot tub all heated. The kids were in heaven.
One of the perks of going was that we were able to go to Aaron (AJ's son)'s birthday party. Heather had a cool glow in the dark theme and did a waffle/breakfast bar.
Playing in the backyard
Emmalyn wasn't afraid of AJ's big dog - Loki
4 boy cousins all on the piano at the same time
Maxwell, Tyler, Hayden, and Aaron
We went across the street to the temple grounds to take some Nelson family pictures. AJ was the photographer. We also did some just of our family. Still not sure how they turned out because we've never seen them...
Luckily we grabbed a couple of the kids with our phone.
Love my kids
All the Nelson cousins, from top: Tyler, Hunter, Arron, Maxwell, Hayden, Kaitlyn, Emmalyn, and Hayden
It's fun to see all the cousins interact
more swimming
Peter was only able to stay the weekend and then he had to go home to go to work on Monday. I was going to work with some people on my team in Vegas so I was staying an extra couple nights without him (I think it's the first time that I've been with the kids while he's been away).
When he was going through security at the airport, the people in front of him in line stole his wallet/cell phone/etc while he was waiting to get through the metal detector. It ended up being this big ordeal and luckily the couple was stopped by the TSA because of liquids in their bags or they wold have been gone. Anyway, long story but Peter was able to use the "find my phone" feature on his apple watch and heard his phone pinging back from the ladies' purse. She said it was a mistake and that she grabbed his stuff thinking it was her boyfriend's... At this point TSA was involved. They looked through the camera footage and determined it wasn't an accident and that they meant to steal his stuff. Peter decided to press charges and so because of all the time that took, he missed his flight. Luckily he was able to get on another flight much later that night that was a red eye but still got him home in time for work. It was crazy. So grateful that he was able to get his stuff back!! (TIP for Travelers: put your valuables in your bags that are going through the scanner when possible. Don't leave your phone and wallet, etc just lying open in the bins and for sure keep your eye on your stuff if you get separated from it.)
Grandpa and Emmalyn reading books before bed
Emmalyn slept in the pack n play (She's getting too big for it but it worked) and I slept with Maxwell. Such a sweet boy.
Cuddling with his momma
This is the little area at the airport that they took Peter to when they were showing him the security footage.
The next day while I was working, the kids were with Dad and Brittany. I talked my employee into going to Capprioti's. They have a sandwich called "the bobbie" which is like thanksgiving dinner in sandwich form. I love it. They used to have a location in Dallas but it shut down.
The kids went over to Kimberly's house that day to play and were also going to sleep there that night so that Kimberly could watch them in the morning when I had to work.
the two girl cousins - Emmalyn and Kaitlyn
AJ and Aaron came over to hang out a little more
Maxwell loves his cousins
Big kids both sleeping in beds at Aunt Kimi's. I was nervous leaving them even though I knew they'd be okay.
It's hard to get them to go to bed at the same time in the same room because Emmalyn wants to talk and make noise and not go to sleep and Maxwell gets super frustrated with her.
Working on his muscles the next morning (while I worked)
Playing games
I met up with the kids after work and we headed to the airport
I felt like super mom - I handled it all on my own from returning the rental car and dealing with the shuttle to getting through security. We had 1 big suitcase, 1 bag for the plane, and 2 huge car seats - whew!
Selfie on the shuttle bus for daddy
Maxwell helped out as a big brother by holding Emmalyn's hand across streets and as we walked because both my hands were full with dragging our luggage.
Big brother and little sister
On the plane!
We made it home! I was so happy to see Peter at the airport. I prefer not to be a single parent.
