our trip home to meet our lillian girl

 We finally made it to utah! we got there on benson's birthday! we had to do a little more celebrating!

 Jon and em were so nice and came to the hogle zoo with us! we had a great time and great weather!!

Sawyer woke up with a bloody nose... it always seems to happen when we got back to utah! that altitude is a little hard on the kids!

we had the best week in utah! our favorite part was meeting our lillian lady! we love her and the boys are obsessed with her. She sure is beautiful and the boys love kissing her.

so we got on our flight from utah. and we had to stay in a holding pattern because are lay over in detroit was experiencing some weather. so we did that for about an hour... well and hour later they said we still couldn't land and we were running out of fuel so they had to take us to the nearest airport which was fort wayne indiana. its a very small airport and not equipped to handle a bowing 757. so we sat on the run way for about 4 hours while they tried to figure out how to move the plane and get us off. The boys were very hungry and very tired and everyone was so hot. The AC wasnt working. and some of the people on the plane were very rude. 'we were finally able to get off with the scariest make shift stair case. I had to fight with them to get my stroller off the plane so i could have it since i was flying with two kids alone. by the time they got it an hour later... we got inside the airport to find the only source of food had closed for the night... so almost 8 hours later we were stuck in the fort wayne airport with no hope off getting home... they had to send a flight crew from detroit when he weather was better because our pilots had exceeded their hours. so they said the soonest we could leave was midnight, but we would have to go back to detroit and stay the night there because the connecting flights to kentucky were all done and wouldn't happen until the next day. well, my darling mama helped us out like she always does and helped us find a shuttle and hotel and we ordered pizza and the boys and i slept in our clothes and got up the next morning in the same clothes and rode the shuttle back to the airport where we stood in line for two hours. my boys were amazing for those two hours. by the time they printed my ticket and we were going through security an announcement came over the intercom to say that the flight to detroit was delayed... well that meant i would miss the only connecting flight back to kentucky. AWESOME... well i wasn't about to spend the night in detroit with no clothes so the boys and i rented a car... thankfully they had two carseats and we drove the almost 6 hours home. We were so excited to cross the bridge into kentucky!! and get home. we were exhausted. it was a terrible terrible way to come home, but we are so thankful for my mom, and for getting home safely.

 

 Happy Birthday to the cutest, sweetest,  most hilarious lovable two year old in the whole world! he makes our life so happy and he melts our hearts and makes them explode everyday. He is loved by everyone, but he is a little shy and afraid of people but once he warms up to you he is your very best friend He loves his brother and his dad the most. He loves to drive the razor and his scooters... thanks to sunshine their little scooters are the best! He loves to be outside and play at the park. Balls are his favorite toy in the world. He always has to have one. He loves to sing and dance. We love you so much Benson. More than we could ever say. You are such a special little boy and our life is so much better because you are apart of our family.

We don't really do very big fun birthday parties, but i always try to do something to make them feel special an one thing we do is decorate their door. It's their favorite thing to wake up to.

Benson loved eating his day old bread from jimmy johns... it is huge. Morgan made sawyer this awesome mask... i thought i would try it on and i think it's quite becoming.  we made awesome derby hats and made horses in honor of the kentucky derby. The boys loved riding around on their horses.

We had to say goodbye to sawyers two best friends. He has loved his friends and they have meant so much to him and our family. we love these boys like they are our own. It was very sad watching them say goodbye. Sawyer was 18 months old when we moved here and these boys have spent the last three years together and have been best buddies. We have loved our time with these darling boys and feel so sad that they had to move, but so happy and excited for their new adventure.