Tuesday, September 15, 2009
First Day of School!!!!!
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The Weary Travellers
Our next visitors.......hailing all the way from Wellington, New Zealand!!! Yes, my sister and her boyfriend Rob (native of New Zealand, aka Kiwi) made the 13hour flight from Auckland to LA, spent 3 hours in LAX, 2 hour flight to Denver, 3 hour layover, and 2 hour flight to Madison. They left Wellington around 5pm on friday their time, travelled for 24 hours straight, but got in to Madison at midnight on friday. Great for gaining some time, but on their way home, they lost an entire Monday (left on Sunday and arrived on Tuesday!)
We had such a great time as a family and miss Linds and Rob so much. But we are thankful for the time we had with them and can't wait to visit them in New Zealand. Wyatt keeps asking when we can go, but I've tried to explain how long the trip is (not to mention the cost) and he certainly doesn't get it. Matt and I are thinking a trip with no kids would be great--and during our summer, their winter--so we could do some skiing!! But that will have to wait awhile. Until then, Skype and email will have to do!
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Adventures of the Sullivans and Sorensens
The week after we got back from Stormy Lake, Matt started work and we also had our first 'non-relative' visitors come to see us. Jen Sullivan is one of my best friends from when we lived in Des Moines and we hadn't seen each other for over a year and a half. Now that we are in the cities, it's only a 3 hour trip for us to see each other and we were long overdue. Jen and Ryan and their kids Elle (6 weeks younger than Sadie) and Wheaton (4 mos. old) came to visit us for the weekend and we had quite the adventures!
One other quick story.......on Saturday night we put the kids to bed so we could enjoy some time talking. After about 15 minutes, Ryan went upstairs to check and make sure Elle was okay. He was up there for a bit and then came back downstairs with a half-eaten jar of children's vitamins, exclaiming, "Elle was sitting in her bed eating these. Do you know how full this was?"
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