First Visitors

Last week my mom and Mike drove through here on their way home (North Dakota) from Texas.  So we had our first visitors.  They got here around lunch time, and mom and I took the kids to Target while Mike got the car serviced.

We had coffee (chocolate milk or peppermint hot cocoa if you're one of the people who was 6 or under) 

 

and looked around some.  I'm always so surprised at how Neely picks up right where she left off with "Grannybob".  She had just turned a year old when mom moved.  Then mom visited 6 months later, and again that one night before we moved here.  We do skype fairly often though, and I guess that's enough for her to remember her.

We went home and pretty soon Jess got home from work.  Mom and Mike took us to dinner.  We tried Mexican food again, this one was called Ted's Escondido Cafe or something, and it was REALLY good.  Paige invented the chip taco, and says she'll sell them from a chip taco stand.

 

We got an air mattress for them to sleep on, since Cassie and Alex will be here in a month, and Dad, Trudi, Grama, and Colton a month after that, and the Cassons a month after THAT!  We even have other visits being talked about, just haven't heard dates yet.

The kids got in their pajamas and had a "snowman factory" with Grannybob.  

 

They kept trying to sell us their clay snowmen.  Most were "selling" for free though.  Ha.

There was quite a variety of colors. 

 

Turns out Grannybob is pretty handy with clay.