Glendale to Eagle

On August 12th, Iva, Charlie and I headed to Eagle for a Shaver Family Reunion. (Shawn was in his second week of his first year of medical school so there was no time to play for him. He stayed home and studied.)

We flew from Phoenix to Boise. It was a direct flight a little under two hours so we thought no problem and decided to fly right around bedtime so the kids would either sleep or at least be a little more calm on the plane. 

We had no problem going through security and making it to the gate. We got here plenty early (2 hours) and weren't assigned a gate yet. We were just told it would be in concourse d. So we just hung out and found a spot for Iva to watch TV and the airplanes. 

On our way to the airport, the weather was less than ideal, but I didn't think much of it. 

Well, our less than ideal weather lead to a four hour delay. Luckily, the babies were troopers. They definitely had better attitudes than me. So we spent six hours in concourse d killing time. We found a family bathroom that had a separate room with a little bed, shower and huge cupboards in it. We may or may not have spent a lot of time in there. I was hoping we could get Charlie to fall asleep in there if there wasn't so much going on. Welp, no luck there. Neither baby slept in the airport or on the airplane. 

After cleaning the airport, pole dancing, and crawling everywhere, we finally made it on the plane. It felt so good to get on the plane and just sit. Iva had her own seat and Charlie was my lap baby. It was pretty easy once we were on the plane. Iva played the iPad the whole time and Charlie just cuddled. We didn't even open up our carry on- except for Twizzlers. Yep, we ate a whole (little) package of Twizzlers at 1 in the morning. 

We planned our flight so we would get into Boise at pretty much the same time as the Sookhoos. Well, after they had delays, a near missed connecting flight, a sprint through the airport, and who knows what else, they still beat us to the airport. Grampie picked them up and took them home while Grammie waited for us. We made it to Eagle and in bed around 3 am. Such a great start to "everything is awesome" week.