Thursday

Curtis took Thursday off from work so that we could go to the temple with Dad, Mom, and Grandma. It's the first time they have ever been to the Columbia River Temple. We did the 9:15 session and then walked around the grounds afterwards. We love the waterfall fountain they have at this temple. Afterwards, we drove down the road to eat at The Olive Garden (our first time to this location) and then next door to Costco to pick up our dinner for later that night, street tacos. Curtis challenged me to order something other than fettucine alfredo at the Olive Garden, because that's what I used to get every time we went. We haven't eaten there in several years, but I took him up on the challenge and ordered cheese ravioli this time. It was good too, but I do still like fettucine alfredo. This Olive Garden seemed bigger and nicer than the one in Boise or Nampa, but maybe I just don't remember them. It was a little busy for lunch but much quieter and nicer than Red Robin. I could actually hear our conversation, lol.

The front entrance.

After the kids got home from school, we went on a walk to the park by the library, which is about 1 mile from our house. Grandma stayed at the house to rest since that would be too far for her. It had rained and was really windy the first two days of their visit but on Thursday it was beautiful and warm. They even had the splash pad on, and the girls got good and wet. They had asked permission to get wet first since they were in their clothes, and I told them it was fine, but they would be walking home wet.

Milo got to go with us too. We had decided to put the animals out in the garage and keep them out of the house while grandparents were here because Dad has bad allergies. They were so confused as to why we wouldn't let them in. Milo would even come and sit by the sliding door while it was raining. He had a kennel right there he could lay in or the garage but he chose to get wet. They were pretty happy when we let them back in on Friday morning right before the grandparents left. We had to show them the tricks/commands that Milo could do.

Taking a rest after some running.

This is before she got soaked.

Curtis wore Milo out good. He kept throwing or kicking his rubber orange ball and Milo would run after it. We kept him on a long leash while doing that, just in case we needed to chase after him. Fortunately, we did not need to do that.

We walked back and ate dinner. Then we finished off the night by watching a classic, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". This is the first time the girls watched the entire movie and apparently Laverne as well. They all loved it! It was basically a Friday for the kids because they did not have school last Friday so that was our movie night. We had also bought some treats to eat when we were at Costco. 

Friday morning the grandparents packed up to go home. They had to be back to work the early shift in the temple on Saturday. It was so great to have them here for a few days! Last time it was a real quick overnight trip. This was their first time meeting Milo also and going to our temple.