John & Becky Bunting

As John mentioned, we took a week and went to Idaho to visit my family.  There were many people in Utah and Idaho I would have loved to visit, but the trip was so sudden we didn’t have time to plan anything, and it was the first time many of my family met Kevin, so we stuck with family.  Usually when we go, someone is out of town or my brother in Oregon isn’t able to come visit, but on this trip, we saw every one of my brothers, sisters, in-laws, nieces, and my one nephew.  My grandma was visiting from Kansas, and we also saw some aunts and uncles and met Tanner too!  I am so glad Kevin got to meet them all.  His little cousins were so cute, Kaci, Kayletta, and Oakley gave him lots of kisses and Abby kept telling me he is so cute.

So, what did we do while we were there?  Here is a rundown of the activities.  I hope I actually post this and it doesn’t end up in my draft folder with a bunch of my other writings!  (3 weeks later I think I’m actually going to publish this!)

Kevin had his first plane ride Monday morning, he slept the entire trip.

My sister McKenzie picked us up at the airport in Utah.

My mom and dad and Grandma were flying in from Texas at the same time so my Aunt Cindy was there to pick them up.

Four generations meet at the airport.

We had a fun little reunion, where Kevin met his grandpa Kevin.  I am so happy that I had a little boy and I could name him after my dad.  (Wow, Dad, you look really blond!)

After the airport McKenzie took us to Cafe Rio and to see Lindsay and Brian’s new house!  Eva has grown so much!  She just kept saying “Baby, baby!” and sometimes, “Kevin”.  Lindsay drove us to my mom and dad’s house that night.

Grandpa introduced Kevin to tinkertoys.

Jeff and Megan and their girls showed up on Tuesday.  Jeff is in trouble, his girls love babies.  I think they are going to have a few more.

Kierra was a great helper and held Kevin for me a lot during the trip.

My brother Zach and his girls also came over on Tuesday.  We went down to the river to ride the jet skis, and Kevin tried on his turtle swim trunks, but we didn’t let him get in the water.

Grandma promptly took him home while we rode.  John and I rode around for a while, then I took one ride with my dad and he threw me off!  I love playing the river more than the ocean, because I can see the other side and I know it’s not that deep and there are not weird animals.  I guess it just depends where you grow up.

My brothers tried to teach me to ride the stand up ski, I never stood up, but I did get on my knees.  John did a pretty good job, but I only got videos of when he crashed!

After playing on the river we had a birthday dinner for my dad.  It seemed like there was a celebration every day that week.  My dad’s bday on Sunday, my brother’s anniversary on Tuesday, my sister-in-law’s  birthday on Wednesday, my mother-in-law’s birthday on Thursday, my aunt’s birthday on Friday, and my brother-in-law’s birthday on Saturday.  I hope I didn’t forget somebody’s birthday on Monday!

On Wednesday we went to town and John got his hair cut at The Barber Center.  My dad told us that is where the real men get their hair cut.  He’s never had his hair cut there though!  His mom used to cut it and now his daughter does!  (Summer, do you remember when I wanted to go to town and you laughed and told me were already in town?  I still think that was so funny.)

Wednesday night we hurried to dig some potatoes for dinner before the storm.  The lightning was beautiful!

Kevin had a little accident Wednesday night.  (he’ll kill me for this later).  He has since graduated into size 1 diapers.  I kept trying them on him but they seemed way too big.  Now he seems to fit in them okay.  My little guy is growing up!

My brother Josh came on Wednesday night with his family.  His baby Sage was born a couple weeks after Kevin and she’s beautiful, we especially love her chins!

Kevin’s favorite oldest aunt Marcy came Wednesday night too!  He was tired, but said hello before he went to bed.

This is Kevin with his only boy cousin, Colton.  Colton is 8 years old and they have 10 girl cousins!  (Well, 4 of them are Colton’s little sisters.)

Kevin’s cousin Oakley was teaching Kevin about his body parts.

Grandpa had baby duty Friday morning, but I think he fell asleep on the job!

Kevin’s cousins put him in this bouncer toy and came to get me and my camera.

I hope he’s not allergic to cats like his daddy!

We stopped at mom’s work so Kevin could say goodbye to grandma on our way out of town on Friday.

We went to Marcy’s house to spend Friday night.  She cooked us a great dinner and took us to the fair to see her entries.  Marcy thought Kevin was worth one of those big fancy ribbons.

Here is Kevin on the way to the fair.  His eyes always get big when he sees the camera flash.

Here’s the city folk at the fair.  We wanted our picture with the winning cow but apparently we didn’t want to get too close!  (That doesn’t look like a happy California cow.)

Kevin was pretty worn out after the week in Idaho.

He hated to say goodbye to Great Grandma Knoeppel, or “Old Grandma” as my niece dubbed her.

We had an early flight home on Saturday so Daddy and Kevin were pretty tired.  But, we got to sit in first class!  What a treat!

We had so much fun and loved seeing everyone.  Thanks to everyone for hosting us and driving us around.  We miss you already!  We love you all!