Coming Home

Yesterday we headed up to Grandma Jensen's. Julie did my hair and Rick went out to lunch with some old buddies from high school. Here is a picture that Tom took with his cell phone: Eric Snell (on the left), Rick and Curtis and Tom Coldin (on the right).

This afternoon our family (well the kids didn't do much except for Janika) helped work in Grandma and Grandpa's yard for a few hours. All of the family were meeting there that night to have a "work-in-the-yard" party but we were leaving (back to the condo) right when most of the others were just arriving. Rick was hoping to make it back in time to swim with the kids but right when he arrived another rain storm swept through and so they closed the pool again. At least Rick and I were able to sneak away later that night for a little hot-tubbing without the kids. When we got back, the younger kids were in bed and the rest of us watched a Disney Movie. We often had a difficult time this week pulling our cable-deprived children away from the Disney Channel!

Today (Saturday) we packed up and headed home. The kids were great on the ride and it seemed much faster than on the way there. Unfortunately we accidentally left Jenna's little hook-on high chair at the condo. We will have to live without it until we come back up next month. Another "Father's Day Flee" come and gone...until next year!!

We were anxious to check out our new carpet when we got home. We had hired a friend of ours to install it (upstairs and all of the staircases) while we were out of town. We were a little disappointed with it at first because it seemed really thin and lot less cushy than the sample we had picked out. Several days later, however, Rick brought home a new vacuum since ours was broken. After vacuuming it, it looks and feels a lot better. It makes us really want to re-carpet the whole house now !