Visitors

This last week we had a few visitors and we loved all of the company! Last Sunday Doranda and her family came by for a couple nights after her husband's brother's wedding in Salt Lake. It was nice to be able to catch up with them. We did a walk on Sunday and played a few games. Then on Monday we did a hike while Julia and Ethan were in school. It was the same hike that we have done a few times before just behind our house. When Julia and Ethan came home the kids all played for a little while and then we had a major family home evening. It was all of the regular things, but we also had a couple left over pinatas from Ethan's party that we never got to, a game of soccer in the basement, and a game of Ammon (one person has a sword and a sheep in the corner and everyone else tries to touch the sheep without getting whacked by the sword; if they get whacked, they have to start over at the back of the room; if someone gets to the sheep, then a new person gets to be Ammon). That night after the kids went to bed Doranda, Bob, Rebecca, and I played 13 skadoo (I just tried to look up how to spell that online, but I couldn't find any reference to the game, so I must be way off), and Doranda wiped us all out. They left early the next morning before anyone else was up. Julia had left a note for them on the door though.

Talitha and David (and Lucy) stopped by on Wednesday on their way to camping at Lava Hot Springs. They were in the area from Wednesday until this morning. I feel really bad for them because it was rainy the entire time they were here. And then today, right after they left, the weather was great. On Wednesday they just stopped by to say hi. We were going to go to their campsite on Thursday night, but it was just too rainy and wet. On Friday afternoon Nathanael and his family came and we got to do a few games with them and the kids watched a movie at night. And then on Saturday Talitha and David came back over to our house and Caleb came down from Rexburg (he forgot to bring Amery with him though). We had originally planned for all of us to go to the campsite on Saturday, but again it was just too rainy. So we played a few games (the boys won at Trivial Pursuit, but I think it took us 2 hours to get through it) at our house, roasted some hotdogs over David's portable grill, and then took advantage of a break in the rain in the afternoon to go to the park. We loved having everyone over and hope that they had a fun time. 

Just a couple weeks ago I was telling Rebecca that I think we have done more trips and had more visitors in the 5 months we have been in Pocatello than in our entire 5 years in Alaska. Now, with this most recent week that is definitely true.