Hello Utah (and Colorado)!

One of the things that had been stressing me out about moving was driving in a car for 24 hours with a baby that breastfeeds every 2ish hours, and gets hot in his car seat which leads him to scream his head off.  So we decided that I would just fly with that little cutie and go visit grandma and grandpa in Colorado before heading over to Utah.  

Nathan was a champ during the flights!  We flew from Killeen to Dallas and then Dallas to Denver.  He slept through the both flights.  He woke up during our layover in Dallas to eat, and then went right back to sleep again until we landed in Denver.  The only time he cried was when I took the picture in the middle.  I took him into the bathroom in Denver to change his diaper and he was all smiles, flirting with all the women that stopped to admire him.

Nathan got to meet his Faria family and his Shaver family all within the span of maybe 3 days.  He was quite smiley and chatty with everyone.  It was a lot of fun to have so much family around! 

Top row, left to right: Grandma Gena, Grandpa Steve, Great Aunt Marianne, and 1st cousin once removed Brittney (we're shortening that to Aunt Brittney . . .)
Middle Right: Grandpa Steve, Aunt Alli, and Grandma Gena
Bottom row: Great Grandma Helen, Aunt Alli, Aunt Marianne and Brittney, Grandma Gena and Grandpa Steve

Top row: Aunt Brooke and Uncle Daniel, Aunt Jessica, Aunt Emily, Grandpa Shaver
Bottom Row: Uncle Andrew, Aunt Emily and Cousin Ivy (she was not a big fan of baby Nathan at first, or of her mom holding baby Nathan.  There may or may not have been a pinch . . .), Uncle Daniel, and Aunt Bree

Cousin Cohen is 11 months old.  He is Daniel and Brooke's little guy.  He is such a cute, curious, fun little boy!  I'm so excited for him and Nathan to be able to grow up with each other.  Cohen is very talkative and very expressive.  After hanging around Cohen for the first time Nathan started experimenting with different sounds and cries.  It was really cute.

Top row of pictures:  -I pulled out my camera to take a picture of Nathan and Cohen and Cohen grinned up at me and said, "Cheese!"

-Cohen had a concerned look on his face when he heard Nathan crying in his car seat.  He seemed like he wasn't quite sure what to think of that.

-Cohen has slowly started warming up to Nathan and will inspect his hands

-Nathan trying to fight Cohen

Middle row: Cohen telling Nathan fighting isn't nice ;)

Bottom row: Aunt Emily, Cousin Ivy and Cousin Nathan, Grandma and Grandpa Shaver were in grandbaby heaven.  They were only missing Cheyenne who couldn't make it out because she was still in school.

Not pictured is Cousin Emma, Uncle Chris and Aunt Christina.  Nathan met them via Skype while we were in Colorado but we didn't get a picture unfortunately.