Our Adventure in Farmington!

Brian and Chelsea were planning on coming to Gallup first on Christmas afternoon, and changed it to a couple of days later because they were having friends come through Farmington to stay with them.  It turned out that their friends decided to go through later on in the week, but by the time Brian and Chelsea were ready to come to Gallup, Eli had a bad cold, and Susan had a pukey stomach bug.  By the time the sickies weren't sick anymore, the big snows and freezing temperatures came.  So we didn't get to see them at all during the holidays.

So the dad had a great idea that we could go to Farmington this weekend, take all the Christmas gifts, and watch the boys while Brian and Chelsea went to Monticello to do an endowment session in the temple there.  And that's just what we did!

As soon as I got home from school on Friday, we loaded up the sleigh and headed to Farmington.

We got this cute little tent at IKEA for Peter for Christmas!

Some of the pictures I took, and some, Chelea took.  If it's a really good picture, she took it.

 

We had whole-wheat pancake mix wrapped up in David decorated paper.  It's now dound its way into our game!

On Saturday morning, Brian and Chelsea took off for Monticello.  We took off on a little adventure of our own!

I went over to the United Blood Services place, which is really close to Brian's and Chelsea's house, to donate blood.  While I was doing that, the grandad and the grandboys went and got a few things that we needed from Smith's, which was right across the street.  I bribed the boys, that if they were good helpers for Grandad, I would share my snacks with them when they came back to get me.  As you can see, they have their snacks.  Clearly they were good helpers!

David loves doing puzzles.  He's pretty doggone good at it!

The grandad gave haircuts to the boys.  I put Pete the Cat on my Kindle, and David hardly moved a muscle.

This one, on the other hand, needed Grandma to hold him the entire time.  That's why the only pictures are AFTER, and not during the haircut.

Amy and Cody got Superhero cookie cutters for their family.  David was one excited boy!

Brian and Chelsea at the temple in Monticello

We took stuff with us to Farmington to make Curry Chicken Pot Pie to celebrate National Curry Day.  As it turns out, Brian and Chelsea made Chicken Divan (which has curry in it) for us to eat for lunch.  We decided to eat peanut butter sandwiches for lunch, and then we all had a delicious Chickan Divan dinner when they got home.  (We left the stuff for the pot pie there so they could hae tasty, delicious pot pie some other time.)

It was great to finally get to see them, since clearly seeing them during the holiday turned out to be a bust!  We love our family!