Our Trip To NH

Thanks for everyone's prayers for our recent trip to NH. This was Elijah's first flight, so we weren't sure what was going to happen! He slept the entire 2 hour trip to the airport, so that was a good start to the day. When we were going through security, I had a water bottle in his diaper bag for his bottles, and security wouldn't let me take it through. They were very snotty about having water for his bottle and their only solution was to mix the bottles up in front of them - how silly! The bottles only last for an hour once you mix them up, and why would it be safer for me to mix the bottles in front of them with the same water bottle they wouldn't let me take through?! Crazy! So, we ended up mixing up a bottle in the terminal with tap water, and of course Elijah through it all up! I ended up going to Starbucks and getting a warm bottle of water from the back (since you aren't "supposed" to mix a bottle with cold water) and it cost me $2.50!! Oh well. I ended up nursing him from then on out, and didn't even bother with the bottles. I nursed him on the plane each time we took off (we had connecting flights), and he promptly fell asleep and slept each flight and woke up when we were landing. Praise the Lord!!

When we got to NH, we thought we were getting a mid-size SUV for our rental car (I had an Entertainment discount and an additional coupon, so it ended up being cheaper than a car). Well, thy only had full-size and large SUV's left, so we ended up getting a Jeep Commander for the same price! Vince was hoping he didn't like it too much, because then he would want to buy his own (yeah right - not at $40,000!!). Thankfully, it was a smooth ride, but definitely not the SUV for us!! I forgot to get a picture of our Jeep, but this is a picture on the Jeep website of what we had for the week:



The rest of the trip was great. We had a wonderful time with my family and my friends. Everyone loved seeing Elijah (of course) and it was nice to get away and spend time in my hometown. It was really hard being away from my family before we had Elijah, and it's even harder now that he's here. We treasure the time we have with our family and can't wait to see everyone again! I put a slide show below of the highlights of our trip! Enjoy!