Well,
this is the visual history of our week at Gessels. Greg ended up
taking 3 days off, i believe due to the fact that Christian got him
hooked on the "Kill the Beasties" game online. if i put everyother
picture the one on the end of Christian and Greg, that sums up their
week. We did make it out to the Hyatt to see Don on Tuesday evening
and brought pizza, which apparently is NOT on Don's heart diet. We ate
without him. I herded kids while the rest played a board
game...someone else can identify it and rank it's enjoyability.
Wednesday we mainly hung out at home, and Sarah and I went to the
Relief Society birthday dinner,
very yummy pulled pork and veggies. Sarah did a batch of pulled pork
and got to take home the leftovers, which we also enjoyed later.
Thursday
was supposed to be the Kid's museum, but both Caroline and Luke crashed
because of all the late nights we have let them stay up. Of course
they've been up bright and early by 7:30 most days. More games while
the kids slept...I continued to quilt and watch Psych and Poirot, as
well as some episodes of "Biggest Loser" watched while Sarah was on the
eliptical bike, and "Clean House" which consisted of digging out
people's houses that didn't know how to throw anything away and wouldn't
put anything away what they used. No comments from the Peanut
Gallery"...my house does NOT look like anything on that
show!!! Sarah and I also washed and bleached the little girl clothes I
brought (2 boxes worth) which Sarah later picked through and kept
about 1/2. The rest came home again to be further re-cycled in the
future....doll clothes if nothing else.
BYW,
I found all of the cabbage patch dolls that I made, including Oatie
just before I left for Texas. Everyone can put their dibs. I guess I
better send pictures...to follow.
Sarah told us their favorite take out places...so we had Mexican beef fajitas
on Thursday and Houston BBQ on Friday....YUUUUMMMMMY!! Thanks, Dad
Friday,
Sarah and the kids went with Dad and me to the Children's museum. It's
kind of pricey ($9) but sooooo many things to do, so worth the expense I
would say. Randy was very interested in many
things, and kept wandering off. Randy had to haul Luke away when we
left 3 hours later, he really wanted to stay.
I
had brought Sarah's Christmas presents, as well as Luke and Greg's
birthday presents (not to mention Sarah and Caroline's birthday
presents) because I didn't know when we would see them again. I made up
Star Wars bags from fabric Sarah had purchased....very cooool!
We left about 7 on Saturday morning
(Christian did NOT want to go that early) because of school work still
waiting for Randy, and another blizzard coming our way, starting Saturday afternoon
in the mid-west.. It started raining about 1/2 way through Oklahoma,
and snowing about 2 hours from home in Missouri. Neal called to ask
where we were, and he already had 1/2 an inch and it had barely started
to snow on our trip. When I called Neal this morning, church optional
for us...we had 4 inches and Neal had about 10". I doubt we have school
tomorrow, because I understand the plowing is not going very fast. It
is wet, heavy snow. I'm glad we got home when we did...but what a great
vacation in Texas land, thanks to the wonderful, friendly, hospitable
Gessels!
Love to all,
MOM
