Mom & Lea Visit

Mom and Lea were able to come visit on their way to my mom's house in Utah from Lea's house in St. Louis. They stayed for 6 days, I can't tell you how happy I was that they were here! We went to a baseball game (Rockes vs. Giants), very fitting to be playing San Francisco that night! We all had so much fun, and it was heaven for Jake to have 3 playmates all week long!

Early morning cartoons

Jake was going to watch a movie and Taylor joined him, too cute
Mom with the 2 kids

We had a dance party - it took the older kids longer to warm up but if you see these two below, Jake and Taylor, they didn't hold back. It was hilarious!

We made our own pizzas one night for dinner and the kids really enjoyed helping

We went to the Nature & Science Museum to this new exhibit called Expedition Health. It has some really neat things in there, you can see yourself and what you'd look like at the age of 70, it checks your wing span, stride, and all sorts of things. We all loved it.

Here's what Lea Mason and Lea would like at the age of 70. The one on the left is them at 70 and the one on the right is for Lea, adding obesity and for Mason, adding UV damage. It was too funny!

My sweet Cooper is getting so big! This is such a cute outfit my mom got him and it even has a cute golfers hat that's too big, but I wish it fit him to complete the whole outfit.

At the Rockies Game

Sam had work in Boulder so he was able to come and stay for a few days. We weren't sure what we wanted for dinner on Saturday

night. We ended up getting wedge salads from Carino's, the best wedge salad! And we got buffalo wings with Henry

Weinhart's rootbeer, our favorite! And the kids had pizza. Quite the combination but it was oh sooo good! This is

Wesley and Sam trying the nuclear wings - super hot! THe rest of us stuck to the mild. That evening we played 'Battle of the Sexes' - guys against girls. It was hilarious - we got the good old gut laughs from it, we were cracking up.

We let the kids play with water balloons. We got an apple out for Mason to bob for. It was funny - he did it though!

Cooper's usual way he lays on the floor - on his side.

We had tri-tip for dinner, I'd say it's my favorite thing Wesley grills, it tastes sooo good! Here are the kids

enjoying the food

I'm only posting this picture of the cookies because I was so proud. Most people that know me know that I'm not one to brag about my baking. I hate to bake; I never bake. My idea of dessert is buying a box of ice cream bars at the store. But my mom wanted cookies so I delivered. This was her recipe and every time I've ever made this recipe, they've turned out awful! Don't ask me why, they've always had this weird taste to them, every single time. But I'm gonna toot my own horn and tell you that these cookies were AMAZING - well, maybe not amazing but they were really good. I felt so proud that my dessert actually turned out! Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Cookies. And we watched "Hello Dolly" while eating them - one of my favorites!

Lita and Cooper

Jake and Taylor quickly became best friends. They were doing everything together. I wish I'd gotten this on video but they wer

Side note: I don't go to garage sales very often, almost never. I never see the gems like other people do. But my goodness, the best people to go garage sale-ing with is my mom and sister, Lea. I have not clue how many stops we made, but they knew what they were doing and came out with some great stuff.

Another note: When it comes to bargaining, it's one of my favorite things, I learned it really well in Madagascar. But I realized that I can only bargain with people that do it on a regular basis, like for a living. When I went to New York, I didn't hesitate bargaining for things when we went shopping. But for garage sales, it's not easy for me since the people doing the garage sales aren't doing it regularly. Ok - so that doesn't stop my sister, Lea. I swear, at each place, I couldn't believe her bargaining! She was so good

at it that I thought the people would pay her to take their stuff - she was amazing!

Example:

I saw something I wanted so I went to the lady and asked how much.

Lady: 75 cents

Me: (Looking through my wallet for exact change)

Lea(whispering to me) Don't pay 75 cents for that

Me: Uh, ok, help me

Lea (to the lady) Here's a quater

Lady: I said 75 cents

Lea: Okay here's another dime with that quarter

Lady (Laughing) okay fine

You had to be there but it was hilarious how these types of things went on that morning. Too funny!

So when there was something I wanted, I'd tell Lea and she'd take care of it for me. It was the most fun, I wish I could go to more garage sales with these 2.

It was a great visit, went by way too fast and I wish they hadn't left. Now I just can't wait for the next set of visitors... any takers?