I know you've been waiting a long time to read a post about little Anya's trip to Utah. In fact, there were so many things that happened on the trip that we will have to break up the full report into a number of posts. So, like it should be... Family First...One highlight of the trip was having Anya meet Grandma and Grandpa Marler and four of her great-grandparents for the very first time. (We were worried that at least one of them wasn't going to see Anya...and move on with their "life"... but the health concern seem to go away...) Some quick math will show that the average age of Anya's four living great-grandparents is 84 years older than Anya's current age. That means they have lived (on average) 337 times longer than Anya!
In fact, Anya met 4 new uncles, 4 new aunts, 4 new great uncles, 6 new great aunts, approximately 30 cousins (once removed), 6 first cousins on the one side, 4 second cousins, a cute little girl named Phoenix who liked to wear a very scary rabbit mask and her own younger first cousin, little David! (who is no longer "little"... I will probably not call him that anymore...he's going to be bigger than me at the rate he is gaining weight!) Anyway, Anya had a blast punching, jabbing and round house kicking him in her very first boxing match. As you can see in this picture, she was able to knock David right to sleep! Her first KO! She better get her punches in now because David sure will when he wakes up... For more coverage of the boxing match, click here.
Anya loved her Grandma Marler's cooking (indirectly) and Lindy did too! Grandma Marler read lots of books to Anya and a little bird told me she is sending a book for Easter. Oh boy! An Easter surprise!
Uncle Wes was excited to meet yet another niece that will make him play Barbie's in a couple of years... Sorry Wes...
Aunt Kari was glad to get away from work and spend the whole day with Anya. Hopefully we didn't scare her off from future motherhood.
That's all for today but come back soon as we have a number of stories about our trip to share including the Buick, the Salmon Fest, No-longer-Little David, the hand, the flight home, CKB, and much, much more!
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