We had so much fun having our visitor out here :) After a very long drive home from the airport in LA rush hour traffic we finally made it home. I think if you ask her about it, she would say that she was shocked at how many people there are -every where! Even when it's 2 hours before rush hour, some how they are still there! It is definitely an unexplainable mystery that you would have to experience in order to understand. No matter what time you are driving- it's rush hour ;)
Anyways, so the first night we made it home starving and gobbled up our pizza from the box-I was in hungry pregnant lady mode.....hmmm I think I've always been in that mode! And then I pretty much questioned her on child birth and babies, ya know, how do you pop out 6 kids kinda thing. It was really nice to have someone to question since I don't really have an 'experienced' friends out here.
Saturday was snowboarding and skiing day. Mom's first glide down the mountain was life threatening but not to her-only innocent by standing snowboarders. She took off, after 30 years of not skiing, without the ability to stop and took an unsuspecting snowboarder out at the the knees. Now this is one of the moments you wish you had the camera out for! Overall, it was a fun day and Debbie did great! I think she only fell 4-5 times which is really nothing!! Here are some shots from the day:
Sunday was church, learning to make a pan of lasagna from the expert, visit form Aunt Wendy and Ashley, church at John MacArthur's church and then Inn and Out for dinner. We were excited to be able to see Aunt Wendy and Ashley for lunch and treat them to a home cooked meal after their trip across the country to San Diego- Shawn is now pitching for the Padres-his first game was last night and he did really well. We are hoping to get down there to watch him pitch this season :) We attempted to go to the poppy fields here-they are normally COVERED in bright orange poppy flowers but it was still a field of brown :( Church that night was great as usual and dinner was also-Papa Walters INSISTED that we go to In and Out at least once while Debbie was here-He loves that place and wanted to make sure that Debbie could try it too.
Monday and Tuesday- Yosmite trip! Yosmite was completely different this time around, tons of water flowing every where. We couldn't even get close to one water fall because it was flowing so much that we were getting soaked-this is the same waterfall that we hiked up to and walked behind in August :) Lil Debbie did the whole hike with us, all the way to the top of Vernal Falls which is very challenging and an accomplishment!....but not without falling in the snow, hitting herself with a stick and a small child with a stick also-also moments that are camera worthy! I loved watching her laugh so hard at herself- I honestly couldn't help her out of the snow for a minute because I was laughing so hard! Ah, I just appreciate it because I have so many of these klutzy moments of my own!!
I wish that we took pictures of what we were actually hiking up so that everyone could see it but at that point you are just trying to get to the top so you don't think about it. The pictures are a little smaller and if you click them you can see them much better.
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I know that people always cringe at the thought of in-laws but fortunately that is not the case at all for me (or Nate) I can honestly say that I wish Debbie would have been able to stay longer! At least one more day so that we could just relax-we packed her trip full of places to go :) I hope you enjoyed the pictures! Baby shot soon to follow!
TURN OFF SONGS AT BOTTOM FIRST!
Here are some videos also: Debbie skiing, falling the snow and Nate chasing a bear (that bear stopped and looked at him!)
Listen to Nate (Slow down! then I come by and say Oh geez this looks dangerous!)
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