we love visitors

**Warning** there is no such thing as too many pictures for me, but some of you may not agree!

We were blessed to have the Chapmans (Dan's parents) and some Wells (Dan's sister and her 2 girls) come stay with us recently.  They drove in a day later than originally planned because of a storm threat.  But we sure kept them busy as soon as we could!

First stop; The Children's Museum:

Tom and Nina took care of the babies for us while Ann and I tried to whip our girls through all the MANY MANY things there were to do!  We all had such a wonderful time.  Sophie's favorite thing, hands-down, was dressing up like a squirrel and carrying around her acorn, couldn't get enough of that.  I think Elise was most into the painting she really COATED her paper well, with LOTS of paint!  Tessa liked it best whenever her mommy held her, and Melody... not sure maybe the bird's nest? HA! :)

 

 

 

Whew!  We were all tired after all that playing, so we went home for lunch and naps.  That afternoon ALL of the girls drove over to Target to buy Nina some socks... I know she needs A LOT of moral support! j/k  We decided to check out the clearance baby girl section (for the record, her idea, NOT mine) and then she had a "grandma moment."  I love those. :)  We found the cutest little cotton print jackets and little colorful outfits for the girls.  I've my eyes on the jackets for about a month coveting them every time I was there and was SO SO SO excited to see they were on finally on clearance!  Anyway, they're wearing them in the top picture, are they not the CUTEST?!?!!

That evening we went to Pasquini's.

It's being remodeled, notice the plywood behind us.  But the food was still sensational and the older girls sure loved the dough drums Dan made them while we were waiting for our food!  I also wanted to point out the picture of Tessa hugging Dan.  This is no fluke, or lucky shot.  Tessa is a great hugger!  We love it, especially Daddy.

Next stop; the Denver Art Museum.

On our way in we saw this cow, and that's when my camera battery died... Ann was kind enough to let me use her camera in the museum (and then forget her camera at my house so I could caiphe the pictures).  Thanks Ann!  The museum was SUPER cool, they have all kinds of art from all over the world and I think they do a magnificent job displaying it.  They also had all sorts of activities for kids and families (some of which I didn't read about until we had left the museum) including art activites, bingo, and imagination games.  Sophie really liked the red room with the foxes, she still talks about it.  The best news of all is that it was FREE and it is free the first Saturday of every month!  I play to go again next month and see some more, there was a floor we missed and another complete building we didn't get to.

   

That night we had a BBQ with our good friends the Lawrences, we were excited for them to meet the Chapmans!  Afterwards the men went to the priesthood session and the ladies and babies stayed home and frosted sugar cookies.  All of the fancy ones are Kim's, she rocks; Ann and I stuck to frosting and either immediately eating or a quick sprinkling!  Once the guys got home we played some Buzz Word and then TALKED... FOREVER!!  It happens to us with the Lawrences all the time, we lose track of time discussing gospel topics, but Tom just perpetuated the situation.  Thank you so much for putting up with all our questions Tom! :)

Sophie was in heaven having Elise around.  Everything is funner with your cousin!!  Now whenever Sophie does something she remembers Elise doing here she reminds me that "Elise do it too!" 

 

I am so glad that the Chapmans (and Wells... minus Brian, we'll get you next time!) made the long drive out to see us.  It really means a lot!  I love having visitors, who's next?