Visitors!

This last week has been full of visitors! First we had Lauren and Logan for one night. They are so cute with our kids! We went to Herriman Days and all the kids went on a ton of rides and had dinner. Then we came home and put our kids to bed and left Lauren and Logan as babysitters while Shaun and I went to see the new Pirates of the Carribean movie.

The next day we had Christian and Grace come visit for three days. We played lots of games, stayed up late watching movies, visited the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point, visited the Zoo, had a fire one night .... it was so great to have them here and spend some time with them! I wish I would have gotten some more pictures, I totally forgot to bring the camera to the museum.

Here"s Tana and Arianna ......

lookin at the monkeys

there's half of an elephant behind us!

Lila loved the baby elephant

They had Zoorasic Park going on at the zoo. Lots of mechanical dinosaurs. Isaak loved them more than the animals. :)

I think that gorilla just gave birth to Isaak!

watch out, it's hot on your bare legs!

we love giraffes!

horsey, horsey

yes, we have fires when it's still light out. We're goofy

Christian and Grace built at least 50 sand castles in our sand pit. You can also see part of my garden, all my plants are getting really big! I've already had some strawberries, the tomotoes are green on the vine, and my peas are flowering. We've been eating chard and lettuce for at least a month now, and my squash is just coming in!

Then minutes after losing Christian and Grace to Kim, we had Angela, Brady, Miriam, Sam, Charlotta, and Tristan come to stay! I WISH I would have taken more pictures when they were here. We only got them for 24 hours, but we wasted no time playing in the sandbox, playing games, watching movies and laughing! I love having them here! Then we had Sam's baptism which was AMAZING, (of course I forgot to bring the camera AGAIN!) and a family party afterwards...... and then we were done. I came home, cleaned the house from top to bottom and fell into bed. The next morning I was so sad that it was just us again, we had so much fun having everyone over!

There's 5 months in between these two, but Lila kept calling Tristan "The Baby" and mothered him all day. So cute together!

Our crazy weekend

I think, given the chance, I would have skipped last week entirely. I think we just had one fiasco after the next. First, Lila was teething and was miserable all week. Then I had Bunko at my house and had to clean and make a huge meal for everyone, then Isaak got sick, then Lila put my phone and mp3 playing in a cup of water (I salvaged the mp3 player, but need to get a new phone) then Isaak started throwing up, then on Saturday morning he seemed fine so I stopped giving him Tylenol and he had another Febrile seizure. This is his third in the last two years and we're very educated on what to do, but it's still scary! Poor Shaun, this was his first time witnessing it and he DID NOT LIKE IT AT ALL! This one lasted about 3 min, much longer than his previous ones, so we called the paramedics. They checked him over and he was just fine, didn't even need to visit the hospital and was back to normal within hours. I'm so glad that he will grow out of these in a few years. It just really hit home for me and Shaun that we HAVE to keep giving him Tylenol for a few days even after we think he's better to be on the safe side. Poor Montana from next door was so worried about Isaak when she saw the fire trucks in front of our house. That night Tana and Abbie and some of their cousins that Isaak regularly sees stopped by the house and gave him the cutest get well notes. He's so lucky to have such cute friends! Then to top off this wonderful weekend, they rest of us got sick, too! At least all of this happened this week, though, because next week we're having visitors! Christian and Grace are coming for a couple days and then Angela and family are coming. We're so excited!

HaHA!

Isaak came home from Montana's house the other day looking like this! The picture doesn't really do it justice, his lipstick wasn't in the line of his lips, and I don't think I've ever seen such a garish shade of blush. He kept laughing and said, "Tana painted my face!" Just one of the hazards of having a 6 yr old girl as your best friend!