alamosa! welcome home

last weekend we drove 14hrs to alamosa CO to welcome spence's brother justin home from a mission.

i have got to be the worst camera person in the world, because i got very very few pictures.  in fact none of spence and his family, his brother or half the fun stuff the kids did.  

we did try to take family photos and the twins wanted nothing to do with holding still or being told where to sit.(i realized later that it was probably because they were starving, oops) but i am hoping that one of the family pictures turned out... 

 besides the family pic fiasco the weekend was great.  the girls had a wonderful time playing in grandpa todd and grandma debbies huge back yard.  the weather was a refreshing 85 and sunny.  there are now 6 mortensen grand babies, and the kids play really well together.

 grandpa todd wrestled with the kids for hours...honestly i don't know who is the real kid, them or him.

 ty and ash blessed their new baby cache as well.  it was nice to be able to be there for cashe's special day too.  the men look pretty good as well.  Justin is no longer the little 14yr boy i remember first meeting.  his is tall and so handsome! the girls kept running up to him thinking he was spence.

 and our last day there, tenley finally realized there was a little baby, this is kristy and bretts boy miles.

tenley wanted to hold him and kept asking to hold baby miles.  it was really cute until he got a little fussy and needed to be burped she didn't want to let him go, and signed and said, 'stop crying'. 

she has heard me use those words before.

 Q got in on the action, but it was ms tenley who really loved the baby.

on the way home in the car and the following day she kept holding everything like a baby, even pizza, and saying, "sshh baby miles, ssshh"

 i guess she is ready to be a big sister some day.

 the trip was great. even the long 14hr drive wasn't too bad.  we borrowed a dvd player and the girls watched up and bambi about 5times each.

the funniest part of the trip was that we all shared one room.  the girls haven't shared a room since they were about 9months old because they would wake each other up.

so at bedtime i would lay them in their separate pack n plays and say good night and lay down with them. the girls would then start singing to each other, happy birthday justin, the alphabet, counting. it took about 45min each night for them to finally fall asleep but it was so 

cute to hear them talking to each other.

and each morning the first thing they would do is ask for sister, of course waking everyone up, but it was only one weekend and it was so cute. 

we had a great time with spence's family, we are really hoping that they can come visit for thanksgiving.  and really hoping that justin enjoy's his time being home.

we missed him a lot while he was gone.