Shannon's Spring break visit

Shannon and Mima and Buddy arrived at 1am Friday morning after driving for about 13 hours. She wanted to miss the snow storm coming in. Brian was going to come, but his grandmother passed away the previous weekend and he flew out Friday morning to attend her funeral in Bremerton.

I went to work as usual on Friday. Fred, Shannon and the kids came to see me at work at lunch time on Friday. Unfortunately all my favorite people except one or two weren't at work so I couldn't introduce them to many people. 

We took the kids to Del Taco for dinner and to the indoor play area.

Saturday the RV Sales place was having an open house. They had bounce houses, face painting, balloon animals, drawings and FREE food. So we went!

After the RV show, we went to the cheap theater to see Moana.

Sunday was church. Then we visited the Daly's. I took the kids back to the house while Shannon and Fred visited a little longer. The kids played outside with the cars.

I took Monday off work. We took them to the new park in town. It has the only rail train in St. George. It was pretty cute.

After naps, we took the kids to the Washington Rec Center to the pool. I took pictures and read my book.

Tuesday morning they were loaded in the car by 7:15 am and headed home. 

It was a really nice visit. It went by really quickly.

The best moment was when Mima said to me "I love you Grandma".

It was so sweet and not prompted by Shannon. She just said it on her own.

Evan's Blessing Day

Evan's Blessing Day arrived  and we all met for a wonderful breakfast made by Jess's Dad.

 Jess knows how to make everything beautiful and festive. 

Evan wore the blessing outfit that Jess's brother JT wore. Evan has his middle name ~ Thomas ~

 Getting dressed.....

 I'm thinking this Mom is mighty happy and glowing today!

 Here we are after Sacrament meeting is over. 

 Jess's family here.

 I like all the pictures of us with Evan so you get to look at them too. 

It was why we went. 

  Here is all of our family.

 All the men in our family. 

 My babies all grown up. 

 I'm a munchkin. 

 Corinne and Shannon wanted to get the house cleaned up for Jess and Scott before we left.

The three of us ~ it's our love language.

 Here are a few pictures of the lodge we stayed at. It had three bedrooms. The girls shared a room, my dad had his own room and we got the master room downstairs. It was really nice!

 Time to go back to reality.

 It seemed like we had this trip on the calendar forever. It was so exciting to anticipate going to meet Evan along with the added joy of having Corinne and Shannon come too.

I don't think anything could have made the trip any better (other than lasting longer).

Scott and Jess are such wonderful partners in parenting. Evan is so blessed to have them. 

He is such a darling and sweet natured little boy. 

I'm so excited to see how he grows and develops his personality. 

So much in those eyes. I can just see it!!!

Evan's Blessing Day #3

Our third day was packed full of activities!!

Jess made appointments at the Nail Salon. 

Corinne and Shannon and Nancy (Jess's mom) and Alyssa (Jess's youngest sister).

Jess and I got pedicures. It worked out just right for us to have time to talk and enjoy being together.

Here we are on the way out the door to go home - Evan came along too!

Next activity was our Texas BBQ at the Miller's. 

They are very good friends of Scott and Jess's.

 I would say a surrogate Mom and Dad and wonderful friends.

I didn't post pictures of all of the food - there was a lot, but you get the idea. It was delicious. The best steak I've ever had. I'm not a big on steak, but it was heavenly. 

 Scott was pretty excited about it. He is really immersing himself in the Texas lifestyle. They both are actually. It is exciting to watch them blossom where they have planted themselves. 

We lounged around for quite a while to let our food settle and enjoy Evan.

 I think there was still some snacking after dinner because there was all manner of M&M varieties in the house and these two are eating. Fred and Shannon were not at the house before we ate. We had a car rental issue so this was definitely after dinner. hmmmm 

We played games after dinner. Heads Up

 Splendor the board game - This is Nancy, Pernell (Jess's Dad) and Julie Miller playing with Corinne.

 Ticket To Ride - Fred, Alyssa and Rick Miller playing.

and Evan again.......

 Here's the group!!!

By evening we made the decision to take the boat tour of the Riverwalk.

I think this will be one of the my all time favorite pictures of Scott & Jess.

They are so happy!! 

It's beautiful along the river. So many lights and the way the buildings and waterway go together. 

We will want to go again and again on our return trips to San Antonio!!

 After Scott & Jess headed home with Evan, we wandered to the Alamo.

I mean wandered......

 Picture of taking pictures.................

Another wonderful day.

Thank you Scott & Jess for all the planning and preparing for us!!

It was a big long day for them. Learning to navigate with a baby. They did GREAT!