Jesse - Brooke - Reese - Roxie - Aniston - Torah

Aniston Bailey Ward was born on Friday, June 15th at 7:29am. She was 6 lbs 12 oz & 19 inches long. She is a beautiful little Girl and we love our new little addition to our family.    I had a scheduled Csection and we had to be at the hospital around 5:30am in the morning. We were actually on time. (With my csection with Roxie we were about an hour late) They got me all prep and ready to go to the OR to get little Aniston out. The Csection went really well and before I knew it she was here and I was in the recovery room. We were excited to see who she looked like more...Reese or Roxie? (She looks alot like Reese) We had still not decided on a name and it was Jesse's job to pick out a name. So the day before he changed his mind on the name we had been telling everyone it was going to be....Tynlee. So on our way to the hospital he was kinda leaning towards Stella. Well then when I got back to my hospital room he came in with her and I asked him what her name ...

Sunday morning was when were were leaving. We had to have our luggage ready to be picked up by 6:30am and have breakfast before we left at 7:00am on the shuttle to the airport. We arrived at the airport and made our way through security and then waited for our 10:45am flight. It was a 9.5 hour plane ride to Washington D.C. and let me tell you it was a long one! I couldn't sleep at all on the plane so that made it terrible long. Jesse on the other hand slept like a baby most of the flight! We made it into Washington D.C at 3:00pm and waited for our next flight to SLC which was at 7:00pm. The flight from Washington to SLC was about 4.5 hours so not as bad as the first one but once again I couldn't sleep and by this time my behind was so sore from sitting I just couldn't get comfortable. And then there was Jesse again fast asleep for most the flight...haha. We made it into SLC about 10:30 pm, grabbed our luggage, checked into our hotel and went and grabbed the girls from BreA...

This was our last full day in Rome and had few last things we wanted to see that were actually pretty close to our hotel and we needed to pick up a few more souvenirs . I really enjoyed looking for souvenirs for everyone because I just liked walking through all the little shops. We still had not seen the Pantheon so that was going to one of first stops. We headed that direction and it amazed me how many different monuments and buildings you just run across while you are heading to a certain place. We made it to the Pantheon and were able to walk through and take a few photos. We then sat out in the court yard in front of the Pantheon for a bit and just kinda people watched. Then we decided to make our way down to this market place our friends had told up about. We found a little restaurant there and had lunch. In this market place there were artists that had their artwork displayed. We walked around for a bit and then bought a couple paintings that we liked...

Friday we got up and ate a little breakfast and headed on the Metro over to The Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel. We met back up with the tour guide that gave us the tour of Palatine Hill the day before. His name was Colin and is from England. He gave us a tour of the Vatican Museum first. All of the paintings by Michelangelo and Raphael were amazing. Personally I loved Raphael's paintings the best. They weren't the light and pastel colors like most the other paintings. They were bright and bold. After the museum we walked through a court yard to another building that lead us to the Sistine Chapel. When you first walked into the building it was a long hall way of Roman sculptures . They were all amazing to look at and very interesting to hear about some of their stories. As we made our way though all of the hallways of sculptures you finally make it to the Sistine Chapel. You are not allowed to take any photos in there so we don't have any inside. There were...

Thursday we got up and ate some breakfast then headed to the Colosseum for the day. We hopped on the Metro (which was the first Subway/Metro I had ever been on) and once we got off we found a guy advertising a English tour of the Colosseum , Palatine Hill and Roman Forum. So we signed up and went on a hour tour of the Colosseum that was very interesting! I loved to hear about the Colosseum . After our tour we had about an hour to wander around and take some photos. Then we met up with another tour guide that took us to Palatine Hill which was were Rome actually all began. We saw the oldest structure (what is left of it) in Rome on the Palatine Hill. After the tour we walked down past Muesli's Palace and then headed back to the Hotel. Jesse and I had a dinner we were going to with on of the General Partners on the trip. There were about 8 couples at dinner and we had a great time talking with everyone. The restaurant was pretty good and was just a real fun evening. ...

Wednesday we woke up and went down for breakfast. The breakfast was not to bad there at the Hotel. After breakfast we actually went back to our room and slept for a bit. We were both so exhausted and needed some sleep. We went out after our nap and went back to the Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain to see them in the day. We stopped in and shopped in alot of the little shops around those two places which was alot of fun. Then we headed back to the Hotel in time to get ready for our dinner we were going to. We went with the Edward Jones group out to a family run Winery/ Restaurant North of Rome. It was about a 30 minute bus ride. They had closed down the entire restaurant for our group that night and it was so much fun! The food was AMAZING and the people were so much fun. After dinner they had grape stomping for those who wanted to do it. They had guys walking around singing and playing the guitar and accordion which was great entertainment. They had two ladies out actually maki...