Seth's home!

I'm so excited!  Seth's back in UT!  I've missed you so much!  I didn't have a camera on me besides my phone... which is too bad cause we saw some really neat things on the way... but here's a short synopsis of our weekend.  Friday morning, my mom and Janelle took my kids and Jer took me to the airport to fly to Baltimore, MD.  The plane was delayed because the SINK, of all things, overflowed.  Sethie picked me up and we headed to Inner Harbor to see the Barnes and Noble (which is an incredible awesome building... especially the escalators) and to eat at the Hard Rock Cafe.  I had no idea that Fort McHenry was made of dirt either!  (You know... the fort from the National Anthem.)  There were ships and "dragons" (paddle boats) in the harbor... and it so happened to be the weekend for Comicon... so we saw hundreds of people dressed to the gills in the 103 degree weather... anything from Anime and video game costumes to Strawberry Shortcake and just plan fantastical... like dragons.  Then we visited with Seth's friends Carmen and Efrain.  (Love them!  I wish they were closer!) Slept... and Sat we packed and took off.

We drove through Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky (LOVED Kentucky with it's big black barns with red roof tops and secret meadows... even the cicadias singing in the middle of the afternoon!), Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and due to the flooding at the Missouri River we ended up going north and through Iowa (which was also a very pretty detour.... the sun was setting over the prettiest little town, all the windmills, and the flooding itself... all the farms and silo roofs that you could just see over the water.), and finally through Nebraska, Wyoming and into Utah.  It was a blast!  We listened to music... (Seth has thousands of songs and knows all about the bands and their histories), read a book called Soulless (way funny), started to make up a new language... (if you've ever done it before... it's the best when you do it with a linguist!), and read/critiqued one of Seth's stories called 'Dawn of Dust'.  WAY GOOD!  I'd like to see it published.  We drove through a rain storm in WV and one in WY... and everything else in the middle was in the middle of a drought... except the flooding on the river of course.  We got back Monday night.

While we were gone, Mom, Janelle, Jer, Dad, Sharon, and the 5 kids look like they had a blast... Well, except Sharon who caught the cold that we caught a week ago and shared around.  You could tell they'd been well cared for because they didn't even care that I was gone.  (Except Jer at church by himself with the three babies... that's a story you should ask him about.)  When I saw them, Sammy said, "Hi mommy!  Ice Cream..." And went off to eat ice cream.  Ada said, "Hi mommy, I missed you."  Then spent the rest of the night crying over everything because she was so tired and asking for daddy to hold her... (I offered... but when she did sit on my lap she just cried for dad the whole time.) Evelyn gave me a big ole grin and cuddled with me though.  Here are some pictures.... Thanks to everyone that took pictures while I was gone!

This was left from before... aren't they cute with Grandma?

In true Robertson fashion... they made a dam