When Hayden Came to Town

My room still isn't clean, but I'm blogging anyway.

Hayden and Sunny came to town last month and we had so much fun! The first thing we did was celebrate his 4th birthday at a circus. The kids got to ride an elephant. Doesn't Nat look like she's just conquered the world? All the kids had a great time. We got to see a bear balancing act, lion tamers, jugglers and a motorcycle act gone wrong. A clown picked me to be part of his magic act and I've never been more shocked. Somehow he found a coin in my hair and Natalee thought it was hysterical.

We went back to Grandma's house where we had dinner and had pleanty of carnival games for the kids to play.

MarKey made Hayden the most darling train cake, and we were all happy that she didn't actually put sawdust on it.

Natalee got to sleep over at Grandma's house for a few nights. She loved that, but loved that Hayden was there so she had a playmate. Then they made something in the kitchen that was apparently a triumph.

Hayden and Sunny were even able to come to our house to stay over night. I forgot my camera, but we rode the Frontrunner train and went out for ice cream. We also climbed all over some pretty big engines, but Sunny won't send me those pictures. Sunny called it the "Frontloader" and every time I've seen it since (which has been no less than 100 times) I chuckle a little to myself.

Natalee felt so big getting to read bedtime stories to Hayden. He tried to read them too, but was just making stuff up and being silly. She told me later that she didn't correct him since he's just little and doesn't understand.

Courtney came up the day before Valentines and then on Valentines we had another huge party at Mom's house. We all made each other candy letters and had one of Mom's Mystery Dinners. Then we had a dance party, which I wish I had video of. We found out that MarKey and Courtney have been supressing feelings for each other for some time and were finally able to get it out when they penned their candy letters. Here is Nat's, which was from Dallas.

We had such a good time while they were here and it never seems long enough.

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