The Iowa Trip

We had a great trip to Iowa, including a stop in St.Louis to visit Janet, Eric and Teagan (of which there are no photos???). We had a week of fun with Ken's family, including opening for Ken's show (also no photos) and a baby shower for Violet (also no photos...any body help me out here??? Steff?). There were many get together's with family and friends and we loved it all! At my folk's place we spent time with my brother's family, including the newest nephew, Chase. There are photos in this slide show of Violet with Chase...he weighs all of 5 lbs 12 oz. and Ken calls him the helium baby. It was fun to get to meet a niece or nephew after only one week...normally we don't get to see them until they are 3 months old or so. On the way back to Nville, Violet decided she no longer wanted to ride in the car seat and cried about 5 of the 12 hours it took us to travel our normal 8.5 hour trip. Sigh...she is not totally traumatized and now is ok in the car again. After 2 weeks at home, Violet is finally going down for naps and nite -nite with only a few minutes of whimpers or crying and is doing really well with it all. Ahhhhh....now if we can only get to sleeping through the night!!!
Enjoy!