Stillman's Family Visits!

Last weekend my brother's family finally got to come see our house and hang out with us for the weekend. They rolled in to town Friday around 4:45pm. The adults had plans to attend the 5:30 session at the temple so they had just enough time to change their clothes and we were off to the temple while the kids stayed at the house to play. Thankfully, it's only about a 14 minute drive. We got there in plenty of time. After the session we had to pick up some pizza and drop it off to the kids and then the adults went out to dinner after changing our clothes. We went to Bob's Burgers & Brew. It was a nice sit down restaurant but I can't believe we paid $19 for a burger meal. It was good but the prices of food these days is ridiculous!

The kids were swimming when we got back. We hung out for awhile and then had to figure out where everyone was sleeping. Michelle ended up using Garrett's bed while Stillman and Bridger slept on their inflatable queen size mattress down in the boy's room also. Nobody used Jack's bed because they were afraid Keaton would fall off the bed with no bed rail up there. Jayden and Alex used the couches upstairs. Garrett slept on the big couch downstairs while Jack slept on a cot in the family room along with Keaton on a twin size inflatable mattress.

Hanging out. Keaton made friends with Sage.

Cousins playing Minecraft.

Saturday morning we all slept in until around 9am or so and then Curtis and I got to work making a big breakfast of waffles, scrambled eggs, bacon and fruit. Curtis used the smoker to cook the bacon and it was delicious! After breakfast Stillman brought up the idea of going to play disc golf since he brought his set. Everyone except Garrett went to a park in Finley, which is next to Kennewick, to play disc golf. It was fun but it heated up quickly and with the size of our group we only did 5 holes.

Bridger was taking his turn while everyone else cheered him on.

This was at the 4th hole. The little kids were done playing after this one.

We were all so hot and tired by the time we left and knew that it was time to swim when we got back!

Our new basketball hoop for the pool came on Thursday, just in time to play it with the Nortons!

Charlotte used the inflatable hammock as a saddle for the dolphin.

Throw Throw Burrito Extreme version. Technically, the game wasn't meant for the pool. The cards that came with it were water resistant but not water proof but Jack really wanted to try playing it anyway. They only played one round. After that, the burritos just played in the pool with the kids.

Charlotte showing us her dives. 

She improved quite a bit just from earlier in the day.

After swimming, I found this group all having screen time, either on phones or on the tv (videogame). The world we live in now.

Later we ate banana splits/ice cream sundaes. Garrett had really wanted some earlier in the week but I made him wait until we could have them with the Nortons. It was a hit!

Stillman's family stayed with us for church the next day and even went to classes with us. After church they got some lunch and then packed up to head back home. It was a fun weekend and I'm so glad they were finally able to come. Even though our house wasn't finished, we made it work.