The joys of parenthood...

Some of you may not know this, but Dallin, Jackson and I made a long roadtrip down to Las Vegas this week for a press conference about Dallin's brother, Steven. To read about the conference or watch the press conference, go here. We're so grateful that the conference went well. Hopefully we will be able to get some results and information. We left for Vegas on Thursday at noon and left Vegas at 6:00 Friday night. That means that we drove almost 20 hours in two days. We were in Vegas for less than 24 hours. I was a little nervous about how Jackson would travel. He has been a great traveller in the past, so I had high hopes. He was great. He was either sleeping or content and looking around. Oh how we love him. However, Saturday morning he decided to get revenge on mom for all of the time he spent in his car seat. We spent the night in Bountiful on Friday and, after 4 hours of sleep, got up and made the last hour of the drive so Dallin could get back for his orchestra rehearsal. After Dallin left, I fed Jackson again and he decided to spit up all over me. Then, when I was playing with him on my lap, he decided to fill his diaper to overflowing. That was a major blow out. So, when I was finally done cleaning up his legs and hands and diaper mess, I decided to give him a bath. I didn't want to put a new diaper on him just to take it off, so I was holding my little naked baby while I was getting his bath ready when he decided he wasn't finished going to the bathroom and that mom's lap was the best place to finish up. As I felt this lovely warmth spreading down my legs and all over my lap, I just had to laugh. What a morning! And to think that Jackson did all of this by 9:30 in the morning. This is one of the joys of parenthood that people don't usually tell you about. :-)
But times like these make it all worth it. We sure love our little guy!

This one is the tired little boy after the morning's adventures.

PS. It was also Dallin's birthday this last week. What a wonderful man! I sure love him. For his birthday, we went to Macaroni Grill in Vegas with his family. It was a lot of fun. I also really enjoyed seeing Dallin get embarrassed when they sang to him. It was great.