time with family is the greatest!

we recently took a 10 day vacation to utah to visit russ's family and some of our friends. it was so nice to spend a lot of time with russ's sister and her daughter, who is our kids' only cousin! it's so fun now that eliza is 2 because she can really interact with all of us, and she remembers who we all are. melinda and paul recently got a new swingset installed in their backyard, so we spent a lot of time playing back there. their yard backs on to a creek, which makes it so peaceful and cool! we really appreciate all the effort that melinda made to spend as much time with us as possible.