While Josh was gone, Damian and I visited mutual friends and Damian's family. Our first stop was to our kids first babysitter, Kristy Yamaguchi Swendson. How I love that girl! She just had her first baby and we enjoyed meeting little Andrew and getting to know Kristy's hubby, Rob better. Emma even spent the night and went to mutual with Kristy's ward.
And Rob had a video game system that the kids loved. The boy on the right of Ben is Josh's friend, Drake.
We visited Drake's aunt that used to live in Central Point. She just had a baby girl and we loved our visit to the Kolpaks.
We got to spend a lot of time with my brother Paul's kids, Matthew and Ariana. They have been a highlight of the trip so far. I do love those little cuties. Matthew is a year younger than Ben, but they play very nicely together. Matthew has lots of funny sayings and speaks with such seriousness, he reminds me of Marcus Idiart.
We went to Chuck-E-Cheese's with Matthew and Ari and is was fun. They had never been before with their daddy and loved it.
My neice, Ariana LOVES Nina and Nina adores her. They have had a lot of fun being together.
Oh, did you see that Rachel got braces? Isn't she so cute? I love this girl.
One morning we went to the Oquirrh (pronounced ochre) Mountain Temple in West Jordan. It hasn't been dedicated yet, so the public is welcome to tour it. What a beautiful building, with a quiet, peaceful spirit. The kids loved it and were surprised at how much larger it is than our little temple near our home in Oregon.
That evening, we visited Matt Vranes older sister, Beka and her family. Beka and Damian were best friends in High School. I love that woman. And her family. She has 4 cute kids and a very nice husband that cooks a mean BBQ. Her oldest boy is pulling a face on the couch back, her little button is in the light green shirt to the right of Nina.
This little man ate 3 hamburgers in a ROW!! I took a picture of him DEVOURING his last one. What a hoot!
This brand new baby was much adored and pawed. Emma and I couldn't get enough of his sweetness.
We visited Damian's cousins before our trip south for the 4th of July. What a fun visit that was. Some of the cousins were visiting from Texas (even though they're moving to the East Coast, soon) and some live near Provo. Each of the kids met a playmate and have been begging me to bring them all back to Provo to play, ASAP. Especially Josh and Tanner.
Josh and Tanner are bosom buddies. Tanner is Josh's Diana Berry and Josh is his Anne Shirley, apparently. Who knew? Now we just need them to move to Oregon so they can play together all the time.
