Oh what fun!

We had some visitors for 5 days.  Our household doubled in size.  It was great.  Chris' sister Amy, her husband Larry, and their 2 kids Aidan (almost 6) and Lily (3) came to visit.  It was so much fun and all the kids had a blast.  And so did we.

We did a whole lot of playing.  And dinosaurs.  And played games.  And ate a lot.  And read a lot of books.  The kids picked ice cream over bath time.  And we had ice cream two nights in a row.  We celebrated Valentine's Day.  Had Starbucks a couple times.  We went to The Nature & Science Museum.  We played at the park.  We flew kites in the cold, windy weather.  Watched a lot of Olympics.  Saw Shaun White and all his greatness.  Analyzed curling.  We played Wii.  Just the adults.  No kids.  Larry & Amy got to see how good at bowling I am.  But how terribly bad I am at all other games.  We had so much fun.

It was wonderful to see all the kids playing together.  It was a sleepover for 5 nights.  It was quite comical with 3 kids sleeping in the same room, all all the floor in Connor's room cuddled together.  It was so cute.  It took a lot for me not to run in there with my camera, but I found the will power to stop myself.  However, that only lasted two nights.  But my kids have never slept so good for those 5 nights.  Wow.  I was impressed.  It was wonderful.  We will see how the next few nights go.  I have high hopes now.  And they have continued to sleep good.  We could not be more thrilled.

I took a lot of pictures.  Here are only a tiny fraction of them.

The kids had so much fun playing together...

 

  

  

  

 

Science Museum...

 

  

  

  

  

Flying Kites...
 

  

 

Valentine's Day...

  

  

 

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An end to the fun with Daddy!

Well, I guess all the fun has to end sometime. Today is Chris' last day at home with us, as tomorrow he has to go back to work :( I am not quite sure if Chris is looking forward to it or not. But I am pretty sure he didn't get sick of staying home, which is usually the case on long weekends & this was 13 days straight. We are very thankful to have him home, but also very thankful he has a job to go back to :) Connor LOVED having him home to play & so did I. Although we didn't get as much done around the house as we had hoped, it was still wonderful. Today we are scrambling to get the rest of the Christmas decorations back to the basement for storage and the house back to 'normal' again.

I finally found some fabric to make a quilt for Connor's bed, so we will see when I find the time to make it-I am excited to start it. We did get our new camera & so far we love it. It is so easy to use, but has tons of settings to play around with. However, we are still waiting for our new memory card, so we can only take a few pictures at a time, which is hard to do. We made it to church this morning and Connor was really good-he generally has a hard time sitting still for an hour striaght, but we have learned to pack special treats, books, and an activity (today it was stickers). This proved very useful today, as Chris was quite worried about having to peel all the stickers off the pews after church, but all made it to the sticker book :) And we got Starbucks after church, but I was sad to hear they were all out of Egg Nog, but Chris still got his Peppermint Mocha.

However, I am very excited about all the new shows that start this week...Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Bachelor, Grey's Anatomy, and Private Practice. So exciting! Hopefully all that excitment will get me through a rough day tomorrow with Connor-he is not going to be happy that daddy is not here to play.

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