Trip Back Home!

This past week we traveled back home. We saw my family in Iowa, got Olivia baptized, and saw Aaron's family in Kansas. Olivia took her first plane ride and did pretty well. It was a direct flight from LA to Des Moines...so it was great not to have to get on and off the plane a few times, but it might have been a nice break instead of 3 straight hours. It was so nice to see everyone and have them meet Olivia. Aiden was a hoot, seemed to remember everyone, and wasn't shy AT ALL! We first stayed in Iowa for a couple days, then went to Kansas for a couple days, and then back up to Iowa to fly out of Des Moines.

We met my college roommate, Angie and her daughter Payton for lunch. What a sweetie!
(also met our friend Aaron Groves, Aaron wrestled with him in college, there for lunch too, but didn't get a pic, he had quite the beard growing too!!)

Hiding in the pillows with Grandpa!

Love this pic, her hair keeps growing:)

Aiden's second cousin, Karigan....she was great with Aiden and played football! He loved it!

Cousin Emma desperately wanted to hold baby Olivia:)

Aunt Sarah with Emma and Aiden....Aiden can be difficult these days to take a picture, he and Emma had fun together:) (unfortunately we were minus Ethan this night, he got sick the first part of our trip so we had to wait til the end to see him and didn't get a lot of time to hang out!)

Aunt Kenzie putting Olivia to sleep:) I miss all the helping hands!

Olivia getting baptized, she did great, never cried when the water was poured on her head:)
This was the same church where Aiden was baptized...the gown was Aaron's sister Molly's!

Aaron's cousin Mike was a godparent (and drove up from Kansas) and my sister Sarah stood in for Aaron's sister Sarah because she couldn't make it, thanks!

Aiden said he didn't want that water poured on his head!! lol

Great-Grandma "GG" Rossiter after Olivia's baptism.

Aunt Toshia with Olivia in her pretty gown:)

Aiden's second cousin, Jonathon came over to celebrate Olivia's baptism.

Aiden had a great time tackling all the cousins!

Aiden's second cousin Kylar and Aunt Meg, what a happy baby!

Aunt Michelle getting all bundled up to take Aiden out to play in the snow!

They made a snowman, the snow wasn't very sticky so they made a little one, Aiden did not want to come inside!

In Kansas with Aaron's family: Aiden's Uncle Jake playing toys with Aiden. Aiden followed Jake around the whole time, he was good playmate!

Aunt Molly with the kiddos, she is getting into baby-sitting, so she took great care of the kids:) Wish we lived closer!!

Grandma P with her grandchildren!

Godmother, Aunt Sarah meeting Olivia (and a good smile from Aiden!).

Aaron with his dad and sister, Elizabeth.

We went to go eat lunch with Elizabeth one day at school, Aiden was a little shy, but was a fireball once we got home and Elizabeth played basketball with him!

Back up to Iowa-Olivia's first basketball game, Aunt Kenzie was playing and this is Aunt Meggie holding her, pretty in purple:)

Aiden and cousin Ethan playing game boys or whatever they are called! Aiden just thought he was pretty cool cause he was like Ethan:)

On the carousel at the mall with Grandpa.

And then with Grandma, he was spoiled!

One last picture with Sarah and the kids:)

Loved tackling Ethan!

Aiden adored Ethan, wished we were closer and missing everyone already!!