Kayla, Kenzie & Burton visit...

While Ben, Tucker, Papa and Kathryn and Grandma were all in Vegas. Kayla and her babies came to visit. And I got them all to myself! :) For a bit, anyway. I sent this picture to all of them asking if they were jealous. All the grandparents were, for sure! :)

I could love on this sweet boy all day. He is the cutest thing ever!

He may not have enjoyed it as much as I did! :)

Taylor also loved loved loved baby Burton. She still talks about him almost every day. Poor child may have been a little smothered. :)

Even when he was sleeping, he was just too cute not to take pictures of!

Jackson wasn't sure about this other baby invading his territory...

But how can you not just love that little face. He is the best baby ever!

Lots of lovin' on these girlies. They for sure have a love/hate relationship. They play really well together, until they don't and then they REALLY don't. And Kenzie seems to be the boss and tries to boss Taylor and be mean to her, and it hurts her feelings, so then Taylor doesn't want to play with Kenzie and that hurts Kenzie's feelings. It was a vicious cycle! :) These girls!

Lots of just hanging out at our house:

One of the rare moments of happiness with these two. Making play-dough animals...

Hanging out at Papa's house. We knew it was probably going to be one of the last times before him and Kathryn moved into their new house. We sure will miss this awesome fall leaf wallpaper! :) ha ha

We will also miss this awesome pineapple wallpaper. :(  Sad day. ha ha

Of course, we had to fit in a Rancho Viejo trip in. John was about to be leaving on his mission, so I'm glad we all got to get together before he left. Kathryn and Papa were, of course already home and with us, but we got a pic of just us kids. John's girlfriend, Courntey came too.

And this boy reminded me, once again, why I don't bring my kids to restaurants anymore.  :)

Kayla was also here on John's actual farewell day, so we were all able to go together.  Kenzie wanted to hold Uncle Ben's hand during the meeting, which I thought was super cute! :) ha ha

We had a cousin slumber party on Kenzies last night here, and I had to get a shot of our perfect dinner food for a cousin slumber party. :)

Something happened and Kenzies feelings were hurt, so I was having a little chat with her in our office. Her face was too cute...

Luckily, after chatting for a bit, it quickly changed back into her cute smile! :) I love this girl, even though she is the absolutely craziest girl I've ever known! :)

And the morning they flew out, we went to breakfast with Papa, Kathryn and all of the Croskrey's. We were quite the scene. Between Tucker spilling his water and breaking the cup, and Kenzie running around everywhere, we were like a circus. I did catch this cute pic of Papa and Kenzie though! :) They were here for three whole weeks, and still, it didn't feel like enough! Hopefully we'll make a trip to San Antonio this summer happen for sure! :)

The beginnings of February...

So...I may have done this...

Or, I guess, Meg did it! I love it! It's more me than the long curls.

Superbowl Sunday! Woo-Woo! I somehow forgot to take a picture of the spread, but you know with these two, it was good!!!

I did, however take a picture of my sink after. Totally worth it. Although the game sucked at the very end. BOO! :(

We call this guy the anti-helper. Worst helper in the history of ever! Like Tucker always says, 'I'll go discracto the distructo.' and it is SOOO very true. I don't know what I would do without Tucker distracting him most of the time.

Here are just a few examples of his shenanigans and our daily adventures with Jackson:

Always into everything, and wants everything, and that's why we love him!!! :)

He even has to do arts and crafts with us:

Taylor's beautiful rainbow:

I love my days hanging with these two.

It's amazing to me how fast a room can go from clean to this:

But I wouldn't have it any other way. I love my kids' imagination and enthusiasm for playing and pretend.

Tucker in Vegas...

The day after Ben left for Orlando, this lucky dog got to go to Las Vegas with Papa and Kathryn for the weekend. Keyton was getting baptized, and since Grandma, and Grandpa and Kathryn were all going down there, this guy got invited to go with! He flew down with Papa and Kathryn and flew home with Grandma. I was glad that he got some special one on one time with his grandparents and with his cousins. It's always nice for the oldest kids to get some special treatment every now and then.

Dropping them off at the airport:

Just a picture that Kathryn sent me from the airplane, silly boy:

I'm grateful for family who takes care of my baby boy when I'm not there, and I'm grateful that I can trust Tucker to be a good, big boy (even though he's super silly) he's a good boy and will obey and have fun and is confident enough to go and have fun even without me and Ben.

Of course, the main reason, Keyton's Baptism:

The Campbell Family:

The cute baptism boy with his cute daddy:

My silly boy with Papa and Kathryn:

Another fun thing they got to do while in Vegas, was a color run for Keyton's school. Kelli told me to pack him some white clothes so that he could do Keyton's fun run with him at school that was a color run. They ran a mile or so and got colors sprayed on them. I think they had a pretty good time! :) That's something that's totally right up Tucker's alley!

Even though it was february, they totally got to play at the park which made Taylor totally jealous:

(these are all pictures that I got from Grandma when they got home)

Our cute Campbell cousins:

Of course they got plenty of electronic time in, I heard:

Cute little gagey:

And the ring leader (I'm sure) of the electronic time:

I got these two from Kelli. Tucker loves to run around in his undies. Not sure where he gets that from! ;)

Papa and Kathryn took him to the Hoover Dam one afternoon, just him. I'm glad he got that time with Papa and Kathryn. 

AND, on Ben's way home from Orlando, he had a layover in Las Vegas. And, actually, his flight got cancelled, so he stayed the night there. Tucker was still there with Papa and Kathryn, so he met up with them for dinner that night. Ben had them pose in front of this awesome sign. Typical. The boys were going to stay with him at his hotel, but they had early church the next day so they just did dinner. And Ben flew home the next day. Tucker and grandma flew home just a few days later.

I meant to get  a picture with grandma and Tucker at the airport coming home, but it didn't happen. What a lucky boy to have such wonderful grandparents and cousins who love him so much!!!