taylor party

Last weekend we went down to the Portland/Vancouver WA area to be with lots of Austin's relatives on the Taylor side of the family.

Austin's cousin Jessica got married at the Portland LDS temple -- we're very excited for her and Cody. (Thanks to Breanna for this photo we stole from your blog -- we need to get a full set later)

We also got to see Austin's cousin Megan and her cute little daughter Olive. (another Breanna photo)

We were very excited to see Austin's Grandma Carole -- we miss being close to her and Lori and the rest of our family in Utah.

Brooklyn isn't sure about this impromptu family photo.

But we can coax cuteness out of her most of the time.

Breanna was very excited to see her niece and nephew -- Bennett is a cute little guy. (Yep, another Breanna photo)

It was great to see Breanna... and Jenna and Bennett... and we're going to round it out by going to see Austin's parents and Braden next weekend. And then Laura's family comes to visit us a couple weeks after that. We're doing pretty good at getting family time in for having moved away from everyone! (Yet another Breanna photo)

The day after the wedding (and the reception, which was extremely cute) we visited Megan and Rusty and Austin's aunt Jen showed Brooklyn the chickens in the backyard.

Olive was super cute with Brooklyn.

We had a great visit and really really enjoyed seeing everyone. We were so glad we lived close enough to spend some time with immediate and extended family for the weekend.