Family of Friends Visit

Our friends, the Lintons, came for a quick visit. Our kids had been counting down to this Friday afternoon for a couple weeks. Their kids spent the night while Todd and Chalon (parents)went to the U2 concert. Isaac and Denali started with Little Big Planet, but left to make cookies. (The next morning Denali helped Isaac make a cake too for the ward Halloween party/cub scout fundraiser.)



Makenna and Torrey disapeared to the guest room and played school. They had books and whiteboards and big imaginations.

Elias was a charming little boy who minded amazingly well, was already potty trained and played mostly with me.












Jessica and Whitney took over the Playstation and split their time creating silly characters and riding the skateboard in the game.

We went to the park for a couple hours too where they played pirates first before Isaac taught everyone Steal the Flag.

I wish I had a picture of their sleeping arrangements. They toyed with the idea of sleeping on the balcony, but we didn't have enough mattresses to make it soft enough. (Matt had our futon at the home trade show.) And they didn't want to split up into different bedrooms. So we gathered all the pillows and blankets in the house except for the ones on MY bed and piled them up on the living room floor. Isaac squeezed himself into the tiny pop up tent next to all the girls. Well, Elias was there too, of course, curled up next to Torrey.

The kids all had a grand time. The only complaint was too little time. They have always got on remarkably well, and that much sure hasn't changed.