Visitors!

Ready for the blog with 100 pictures? This year I have had some really fun visitors. I usually blog about such important events, but my blogging skills were seriously lacking this year. I did blog about Barb and Jessie's visit, but that was it. So here's the rest...

Marie, Adelyn, & Avery came in October for a few days and we had such a great time! 

 After a long flight the girls were pretty excited to go to a park. They looked so funny in those swings. 

Everyone teased us for going to the beach in October, but guess what?! It was warm and pretty empty. Also, the girls loved it. 

Not Pictured: The Lifeguard these girls were staring at. 

Love their little suits. 

Eating was interesting. Strangely I don't have 2 highchairs floating around my house so we pulled out a sheet that served as our picnic blanket for every meal. 

There was some of this. 

...and some of this. We had a fancy picnic of Mac 'N Cheese at the park. 

Smiles on both girls. Sort of. 

 Most of the time we just hung out and played with these angels. 

 Visiting my work. Yes, Marie was holding food in front of the camera so the girls would smile. 

 While the girls were asleep we watched Music Man & Oklahoma, had a fun little spa night (Thanks to Uncle Dennis for babysitting), and just talked. 

 Morning babies are the cutest. Every morning I tried to get a fun picture of them with their sleepy eyes and cute pajamas. This is one of the better ones...

 My car has never looked so good!

 It was so fun to take them to church and play Show N Tell. 

 This was the last picture we took Sunday. The poor girls were so worn out. Thanks Marie for coming with your girls and thanks Tia for letting me borrow your family!

 My mom came a couple of times over the year and we did some fun things: 

 We went to The Tonight Show. 

 My cousin who works at NBC got us tickets and my Mom had so much fun saying, "Hi, we're on the VIP list." It was pretty awesome. 

 We went to a Hollywood Bowl Concert with John Williams. I love soundtracks and I was in paradise. He was the cutest old man and it was such a good show. We did some other fun things, but I didn't take pictures. Thanks Mom for all the fun visits. Craig came this last time, but it appears my picture taking skills ran off with my blogging skills. 

Rewinding quite a bit to July - The Roach brothers (friends from high school) came to visit me and they brought Jessie. 

 We went to the Conan Show. 

 Then we wandered around LA. 

While they were here we went to a YSA Conference. It was awesome. 

 Late night pictures. By the way - let the record show Jess and I beat them in a Chicken Fight. 

 Nate and Andrew left, but Jessie stayed for a few weeks! It was so much fun. She came to work with me and everything. One highlight was going to So You Think You Can Dance. We've been watching that show for years and it was so fun to be there. 

 While we were in line for 5 hours we talked, made friends, and Jessie did my hair. 

 We may have just showed up to the taping without tickets. Then Jessie made new best friends, like she always does, and these boys gave us their extra tickets. (The one on the right was Waldo on Little Rascals &  Derek Boyd on Full House) They also gave us a paper with all the rules on it. You're not allowed to wear flip flops, backpacks or jeans. We had all 3. After a trip to Goodwill we were ready to go into the taping. 

 We also went to a Dodger game. They played horribly but it was still fun to go. We also watched fun movies, had frisbee nights, talked until late at night, and played many rounds of Gin Runny. After all those rounds I think I'm the reigning champion. Right Jess? 

It is so fun living close to Sara. I've loved going to her house and they're always so nice to host me. Last month Sara drove all the way with her 3 kids for a night and it was so fun. 

 They met me at work and then we came home. We had dinner, read a few stories, played a few games, and visited with Kings. 

They liked the pots in my house. 

Thanks to all the fun visitors this year and thanks to all those who made it to the end of this post. Here's to better blogging next year!