My brother, Bryce and his wife, Lisa and little girl Sophie came and visited us! It was fun to see them. The kids were so excited and immediately attacked Sophie and Bryce. Sophie was probably overwhelmed the first little bit, but by the end before they left, she followed them around the house. Elisabeth was happy to share her toys, and since it was a girl who wanted to play with them she was just fine with it.
Here are the kids saying bye.
Hugs.
Kisses... They weren't able to stay to long because they had to head off to Bryce's internship. It took longer for them because of road closures due to snow (who would of thought in May?) so hopefully they were able to get their key. We were really happy they came to visit and talk with them.
A couple weeks before that, Mark's parents and brother came to visit. The kids were excited for this as well. They keep wanting to see Grandma and Grandpa, but our visits to them have been cancelled for one reason or the other.
We went to this lava hike thing. It was really fun. It was a little nerve racking for me because there were cracks all over and the kids are daring, but it was fun.
They then treated us to lunch. This is the icecream we got. Yum. 15 scoops. Its called the hungry heifer. It was cheeper then getting cones for everyone.
I did enjoy it... the whole thing(hee hee)
I had quite the tummy ache afterwards. :0). We were so happy they came to visit. Now we just have to make it down to see everyone down there. Unfortunately my doctor says no traveling until after the baby's born. I have less than 6 weeks and can't leave an hour from home. So I miss 2 sibbling weddings :(. It may be a good thing not to travel though as last night I was having slightyly harder contractions. Maybe I'll actually have the baby early, but who knows. I however would prefer not to have a baby in the NICU.
So thanks for all the visits, which helped with my sanity after this LONG LONG winter, and hopefully we'll get to see more family later!
So Mark was waiting for a meeting the a week or so ago and decided he would climb the tree. As you can see below, Alex copied him. We had Mark's family here last Memorial Day weekend. Mark and Jon and Joseph climbed the tree again and made it to the top. We didn't do it with anyone else here, since these are the lighter of the boys. The other guys, I'm sure could do it, but our tree may not have looked as nice after.
Here is Grandma with Brigham, showing her something.
Lissie playing on the tramp with Grandpa. And that's all we got for pictures. Yes we were lame in taking pictures. We did have a blast however. Most everyone came up Saturday (except Mark's parents the night before0. We went to Big Juds, where my brother in law ate the whole hamburger and 1/8th. We went to the cave, we played games, outside, had lots of good food and enjoyed lots of company, celebrated a birthday etc. Danny and Haley were the only ones unable to attend for obvious reasons. We were so glad everyone came to visit us and hang out with us. The kids enjoyed playing immensely with their cousins and I think the only times they were apart was when we were sleeping. Thanks for all who came.
The next adventure we have done over the last few weeks is the garden. We rented a rotatiller and made our plot. We then found out our neighbors had one and we used theirs, which was better, and finished the job.
We planted corn, radishes, beets, and lettuce.
Then watered.
Yesterday we went and got a bunch of starters to go in our garden. Alex and Brigham digging holes.
Lissie following suit.
Just like Dad. We are excited- we have lots of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, peppers and for the kids sake, tried one watermelon ;0). We are excited and hope to have some fruits from all of this.
