Day 1

The day that I left started out great.
I got to the airport a couple hours early, but the wait wasn't bad, as I had a book I wanted to read and knew I had to have it finished before I returned or it would be 3 weeks before I could pick it up again.
So, I'm loungin' in the airport and I get called up to the desk station I was flying out of. The said my seat was broken on the plane and they would have to change my seat. No biggie.
They also needed flexible people to change their flights because they over booked-WHAT? I still can't figure out why this happens, but it does.
I had to be in SLC by a certain time because that was when my family was picking me up and heading to my nephew's hockey game.
Not so flexible-my body either!
Then they made a last minute plea to anyone who could fly non-stop to SLC (my original flight had a layover in Atlanta) arriving 2 hours earlier than what my flight was scheduled to.
You should have seen me sprint to the desk while knocking over every kid and elderly person in my way...not really but nothing like this ever happens to me and I was anxious to snag up the deal.
I'm never able to take the offers of a better flight, PLUS $300.00 flying voucher for a future flight so I was so pumped when I got this one. Oh YeAh BaBy!
A couple extra hours of waiting, no problem, I have a book to finish.
I arrived without incident and was greeted by the whole fam-damily. I loved it. It was so good to see all of them, or a small fraction of them, but still a lot.
We headed to my nephew's (Mason) hockey game.
We decided to make a poster for him because cheering obnoxiously loud for him wouldn't be enough. This family is all about mad cheering for our team especially when one of our own is playing!

My brother's kids with my lil sis, Mikkel.

My mom and I taking pictures of each other. Too bad I don't have her picture to put with this one, that would have been fun.

My other brother and his family. Look at Mason, he is only 6 months older than Keion but a hundred times bigger. He is over 5'10 and in the 7th grade. When I told him to stay away from the ladies he said, "I can't help it they are all over me!", I don't doubt it for a second.

The rest of us.

SO, after the hockey game we were all gathered around chatting before we took off in our different directions.

All of a sudden there was a loud bang and a lady from the concession stand was calling us over to Hannah (my nieces friend who was with us) who was passed out on the hard tile floor.

Know one knew how she got there but she was out cold. After she came to, she said her nose hurt but couldn't really move and seemed to still be out of it.

They called the ambulance to come and get her and take her to be checked in the ER.

Where was Kylan when we needed him?

We figured out that she was hit in the nose by my niece's head and that is what originally knocked her out and she fell straight back and hit her head on the floor- probably knocking her out even more.

We were in SLC and Hannah's parents live in I.F., Idaho and would take them a little over 4 hours to meet us at the hospital. We were thinking we would have to wait for them to get there before we could head to St.George that was several hours away.

NOT FUN.

As it turns out, all of her tests came back negative and she was fine to go. She called and begged her mom to let her continue on with us and so we were off.

Here are a couple pictures right before check out. She was feelin' perky no thanks to the nurse she had a crush on!

Check out her favorite jacket the EMT's cut off of her.

AND this is not all. My younger sister Karrie Jo called us to tell us she was having her baby. She was being induced 2 weeks early because her amniotic fluid was too low. Everyone is doing well and hopefully someone will send me a picture soon (hint hint) and I will tell you all about Beckham's adventure in coming into this world. It wasn't easy.

2:45 we pulled into Adrew and Kandyce's driveway and the official first day of my vacation came to an end.