Indy Trip

We went to Indy last week to see family and meet Baby Drew!
Get ready for a long one...I'm banging it out all at once because Nathan is ASLEEP!

Plane ride out. Nathan chillin' and snackin' in his own seat. Thank you Lord that he ended up with his own seat!

So he really wasn't this relaxed all of the way to Indy. But we made it!

Aunt Courtney picked us up at the airport. And she won Nathan over with a football.


Stopped by the hospital to see Nana. Nathan "pounding it" with his Aunt Court.


Home to see Nicole before she had to go in for work. Nathan found some toys. This was daddy's rocking horse I believe.


Back to the hospital that night to have dinner with the family since Matt's mom and Nicole were working.


Playing with Nana on Thursday morning.


Grandpa & Grandma J arrive that afternoon. Nathan gave Grandma J exactly what she wanted!


Wearing Grandpa J's hat :)


Thursday evening we went to our good friends, Adam & Jessie's, home for dinner. Here's Jessie with Myla, the newest addition to their family! She is already 6 months old. Aren't her cheeks the best?


Nathan & Noah. Noah is their oldest daughter of three girls. She is 5 already and Nathan loved her...he also loved this Barbie vehicle! (Maybe it's not Barbie, but something girlie!)


Noah making Nathan laugh while Matt changed his diaper. They were cracking me up. Noah was so good with Nathan.


Adam and Jocelyn, their second little girl. She put several dress up outfits on while we were there! It was cute. Girls are so different than boys! :)


Jessie was so sweet and got Nathan some toys. These balloons were one of them. He's never had one before but he absolutely loved it! In fact, we took them back to the Witts and he played with them all week.


Sweet friend.


The boys.


Friday morning we went with the girls for breakfast and to see their house in downtown Indy.


At Hoaglin's Cafe. Their food was great!


Mark & Rosie came down on Friday too. Nathan was sleeping when they arrived so Courtney went up to get him when he woke up. The Grandma's were jealous of the way he was laying his head on Courtney's shoulder and would not get up or go to anyone! She claims it's because she gave him a football before trying to touch him :) So Uncle Mark had the same idea and gave him a glow in the dark football. As you can see, Nathan snatched it and then nestled right back into Courtney. ha ha!


Meeting cousin Drew!!!


Dennis & Carrie, cousin's of Matt's mom, came late Friday afternoon to visit from South Bend, IN. They brought their grandson, Joshua. He is so cute! Here's Nathan & Joshua sharing Mom Witt's lap.


Dennis spinning the boys on the office chair.


Grandma in Heaven.


Dennis & Joshua :)


Dennis feeding Joshua ICE CREAM!


Nathan warming right up to his Aunt Rosie!


This kid is unbelievable...giving everyone want they want :)

The football must have worked! ha ha.



Joshua was so cute and content.


Dennis & Carrie with their first grandson.


There's Drew! Aunt Nicole and her nephew.

He was having a rough day with acid reflux, but was feeling much better by the end of our stay. Poor guy has not had an easy first few months, but has been doing a lot better!

Dad & Uncle. Boy, you guys look similar!


Saturday Matt and I went up to Marion to see some great friends of ours, Mike & Latrese Moffitt. I became friends with Latrese in college and had the pleasure of babysitting their kids too. Well, their oldest, Michael, is now a SENIOR in high school. At 6' 7" he's a shoe in for basketball :) So we went to one of his games. I think he won this tip, what do you think?




The Moffitts. Michael Jr, Latrese, Janae & Mike.


We went out for Mexican after the game. (They did win by the way, by quite a bit actually.)






Back at the Witts.


Sunday after church. Mommy and her handsome little man!


Matt & Mark went on a cruise in the convertible.


Sunday night we watched the movie, Cars, as a family. Nathan hung in for a few minutes, but after that was getting up and playing and then coming back to feed us pretzels :) Here he is while he is still into it.

Well, kind of into it. He's "honking" Papa's nose here!

It was a really good movie!


For some reason, he thought it was hilarious when Aunt Courtney threw a red ball into the air and caught it.


Getting time with my new nephew, Baby Drew!


Monday...Nathan with his Aunt & Uncle. I love this pic.


Mark said he was going to win Nathan over by the end of our stay, and that he did! All of Monday Nathan wanted his Uncle Mark. He kept going over to him wanting Mark to hold him!




Playing with the cool tool bench that Nana got him. He loves that thing...we brought it home with us. The screwdrivers are still his favorite! I think he has 6 of them now!


Nathan and Drew got matching shirts from Nana. Photo shoot!


These two are too cute.


Nathan just had to sit in Drew's bumbo seat.


Practicing catching.


He caught it!




Needed his Uncle Mark again.


Nathan bowling with the family!


Dads and their boys.








Drew!


More time with Aunt Sonya.




Grandkids & Great Grandkids!




Hey, what do you think you're doing taking a picture of me in my diaper?


Drew's new Valentine's Day sleeper!




Family shot!


Tuesday before flying back home. Playing with Grandma J at the tool bench.




Drawing with Papa.


Nathan loved playing with his Grandpa J. They were buddies.


So, we weren't exactly looking forward to our plane flight home. But God knew what we needed that night... When we went to check in the ladies assisting us said the plane was only half-full (apparently Valentine's night is a good day to fly!) and that we could take the car seat on with us for Nathan. We didn't pay for a ticket for him, he was a lap child, but we knew we would have a seat for him because so few people would be on the plane. We were really unsure of what to do because we had never done that before. Plus, he was screaming on the way to the airport, IN a car seat, so we didn't know if it would go well on the plane. Ultimately, we decided to give it a try. So here we are getting ready to take off. So far, so good.

Food always helps :)

Sleepy!

The flight attendant was making fun of me for taking so many pictures of Nathan before take off...even later when we were in the air and I went back to the bathroom! I forgot ALL electronic devices needing to be turned off included cameras! :) He was really nice though, all of Southwest's staff seems to be.

WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!

This is what he did ALL of the way home. Matt and I were so happy, we could hardly believe it. We even got a little shut eye as well! This is the kid that refuses to sleep on planes no matter how tired he is. The car seat did the trick. He did wake up crying a little a few times towards the end, but I was able to soothe him and calm him down so that he went back to sleep. Thank you, Lord, for a good trip back home!

At the Denver airport. Stop in the family restroom...those things are great. Nathan dressed for bed and ready for the shuttle ride to our car and then trip to home sweet home.


But first, we pick up our luggage.


And now, he is awake! Good timing. And good to be caught up on pictures.