El Paso Bound - June 2016 trip

We planned to start our summer with a nice long trip to El Paso to visit with our family and friends there. Since Gigi and Capi were in town for Spring Sing, they offered to give us a ride home with them... We had to take them up on it!!! But we also really wanted to have our car there since we would be staying over two weeks! So poor Barrett took one for the team and offered to let us fly with my parents, and he drove the car down all by himself the next day!
So after the boys' Spring Sing, we headed home for naps, packed up the car, and as soon as everyone woke up, we headed to the airport so we could be in El Paso for dinner!

And guess who made the trip this time (now that we have a yard at Capi and Gigi's new house)... Bella!!! She has been flying in their planes many times, but I do think she enjoyed the jet this time around!! Haha! 
Guy in the airport gave the boys little wood planes to put tougher... this took 3 minutes to put together, and even less time to break them! But sweet (and every minute of entertainment counts on a plane)!! 

Me and my girl!
Bella happy to be joining us! 
LJ played on my phone for a while! 
Ellie was very busy snacking, drinking milk, visiting everyone, and playing in plane! Southwest will be a rude reality for her when she has to stay seated!! 



Bella took a good nap! 
Then she went lap- bouncing!! 


Got home, ate, and got the monkeys to bed... Ellie went right to sleep in her tent in my closet, but the boys did not stay in their room very well!! Finally they asked if they could just sleep in my bed, and I gave in out of pure exhaustion!! This is the first time I have slept in bed with both boys all night! I barely slept because I was so worried Evan would fall off the side of the bed, but they slept pretty hard! SO we finally have a bigger house to come stay with Gigi and Capi in El Paso, and all four of us slept in one room! Memories!!! 


Side story.... We spent about 30 minutes of the flight learning about and practicing making slow-motion videos on my phone. The kids all loved doing this... these are not great videos, but for anyone interested, here we are having fun with slow-motion! 
LJ was trying to talk slow to film, so first I had to show him how you did things fast and then it recorded them slow... Then they got it, and all three kids made this video together! (this is one of many, but it's the shortest I did! This is a 12 second video in reality!!!) 



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