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The Loopers Arrived!

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For better or worse, these were all the "nice" photos we took during their week stay. Good thing I wrote down ideas for each day so that I don't have to recollect what actually happened...

Friday - Arrival. Gammi takes us grocery shopping and we get some pizza for dinner

Saturday - Gammi made a Thanksgiving craft with Lexi then goes to the movies with Troy while PopPop comes to play. Gammi took Lexi to the toy store too and came back with something mom wouldn't approve of all because "Lexi wouldn't leave without it." It was returned. Lexi played at their hotel riding her bike up & down the halls. We had french toast & bacon for dinner.

Sunday - Church *extra hands* and the family came over for chicken tortilla soup & FHE

Monday - We tried out the new Orem mall play area while I went to run a couple errands. I was way disappointed at the indoor area! Totally not kid proof! Although the bathrooms were appreciated. Unfortunately, I also had to spend $100 to fix our Dyson. We had lasagna with the Smiths and then Lexi slept over at the hotel.

Tuesday - Lexi went to breakfast with Gammi for her birthday while mom had her doc apt. We then took a trip up to the puppy barn. Rand arrives that afternoon and I brought some pork & veggies to their hotel that night while Lexi got to meet the twins for the first time! (and me of course). The cupcakes from Cravings cupcakes were a great treat!

Wednesday - We had lunch with Cassidy at Zupas. BOY was that dramatic with Dallin spilling Gamma's soup and Lexi throwing a fit. Gammi took Troy shopping while we napped and we met up for dinner at Station 22 where Mr Smith finally got to meet the twins.

Thursday - Family photos. The cold had to hit the night before so we tried to make things quick but my family certainly put the torture in family photos. Mr Smith even made me cry. I don't want to talk about it. Lexi just decided to be emotional and Dallin was just hungry & tired by the time we finally made it to the spot. I wish we could have had more time up there, but whatever, it was freezing any way. Thanksgiving dinner happened to be AMAZING. Mom & Troy made some great side dishes and the turkey came out SO juicy.

Friday - We take Dallin to the ER for Croup at 1AM. I send texts out to Rand that I'm sure just made them panic and in the end, they decided to take off early in hopes that they could get back in time before their girls developed any issues. We WERE going to take more photos of the kids, put up the Christmas tree together, watch Gilmore Girls while sipping hot chocolate...but all good things come to an end I suppose. I hated that it was a sucky ending. The girls never got Croup, but they still came down with troublesome colds. No SLC lights this year. And we forgot to take Dad to Sodalicious.


  




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