Secrets/Denver/Our FIRST Visitors!!

I have been pretty good about posting often- before 2 weeks ago. Then I heard a really big Secret and I was afraid I was going to let it out so I couldn't blog for a little bit. But now the secret is out so.... I'm Back :)

We headed down to Denver for the weekend a couple weeks ago. Josh had the urgency to go to the temple and he was wanting to play with his brother. Since they are both in Denver, we killed two birds with one stone. They are so great to watch our kids for us while we go through a session and then we play for the rest of the weekend. My kids always enjoy going down to play with cousins and also their dog Roxy.





Unfortunately, I only took pictures of the kids sledding and forgot the camera the rest of the time.

Due to our "Secret" we were able to have some visitors this past week. It took a big event to get them out here but we are grateful they were able to come and spend the week with us. We had quite the week and it was good to have my parents and sister Ali and her kids come. The beginning of the week we had weather in the high 60s so we had the kids play outside pretty much all day. It was pretty awesome. My sister also brought her 2 month old. He is the sweetest little thing and he and I got to do a lot of cuddling. It was fun having little ones in the house again. I don't realize how much less my kids need now that they are getting older. But for all those who are thinking I might want another one- you couldn't be more wrong:). My sisters are welcome any (and I mean any) time they want with their cute little babies but it is sooooooooooooooooooooooo nice to give them back at night. :) :).












This is Maddie and Callie at the end of the week. They were so exhausted and slept like this for quite a while.


My dad was a big help and watched the kids a lot so us girls could go shopping. The kids enjoyed playing monster with Grandpa (except the times I am pretty sure they almost wet themselves. I had to make sure they would go to the bathroom before grandpa scared them-after those times they always ended the game on Grandpas team)


Action shot of Courtney running from grandpa

I am pretty sure I did no housework for the whole week. My mom took care of it all and told me to take advantage of having her there. Thanks mom :)

The reason that my family came out this past week is because we had a few changes made in our ward and Josh was asked to be the Bishop. My dad took the week off so that he could come out and ordain Josh a High Priest since Josh's parents are on a mission in Austria. We are very grateful for them making that effort and we missed having Gene and Jill there.
Josh is going to do great.
Hopefully I can follow in his footsteps...

And now to start a whole new routine. :)