Heading to Utah

Although the summer is winding down and school will be starting next week, I am finally going on vacation. Robert, Adam and Matt have gone on trips this summer but not me. I haven't gone anywhere for the past six months. That's a long time when you live in the middle of nowhere. We're leaving on our trip tomorrow. We're driving up to Cheyenne to see my folks and for Grandpa to do a bit of (free) dentalwork on the boys. Saturday morning we'll leave for Utah, specifically Snowbird. Adam and Matt are quite excited. Matt's been counting down the days, and every morning tells me how many days are left 'til we leave. This will be Gavin's first roadtrip. Hopefully, he'll sleep a lot. He's nearly 3 months old (next Tuesday). He's starting to play with toys--trying to grab them. Last night he laughed for the first time. Adam and Matt were jumping off the couch and Gavin thought that was quite funny. Since the boys will be missing the first two days of school, we went down there this morning to find out who their teachers are. Adam's second grade teacher will be Ms. Nelson. This reminds me of one of my favorite childhood books, "Miss Nelson Is Missing" , in which a 2nd grade teacher named Miss Nelson turns up "missing" because of the naughty behavior of her students. Matt's teacher is Mrs. Lightner. She and I are friends from PTO and her daughter was in Adam's class last year. I think she'll be a good fit with Matt. Today is being spent doing laundry, packing up food, cleaning the house, and hopefully not forgetting anything. It will be so nice to get out of town and see lots of family---and mountains.