A Welcome Visit from Relatives

Last week, we received a visit from my aunt and uncle from Texas and my cousin and her family from Los Angeles came for a visit. It was wonderful to see them. I hadn't seen Lisa in about ten years and I had never met her two adorable girls. We were able to take them to some fun places the few days they were here. On Friday, we took them to Silver Lake up Big Cottonwood Canyon:

My aunt Ying Yee with Caleb. It was an unseasonably chilly day.

Caleb, Hayden and Emma

My uncle Hawk with my mom and dad (Caleb is under the towel. Did I mention that it was unseasonably chilly?)

Mom, Emma, Andrew, Hunter, Aunt Ying Yee, and Rachel

Lisa, Hunter, Hayden, Ed, Andrew and Rachel.

We had a yummy dinner made by my aunt and my mom while the kids had a good time together.
One of the benefits of having older girls around is they can teach the younger ones the finer art of dress-ups.

On Saturday, we took everyone to the Little Sahara Sand Dunes. A good time was had by all (even if we were all encrusted with sand and our teeth were crunchy afterward)

We tried to slide down the dunes on big sheets of cardboard. Um, yeah, it didn't work.

The kids found a really deep hole (about 5 feet deep) that someone had dug. By the time we done, the hole was about 2 feet deep.


Sisters.

Sisters wandering the desert and no where near a shopping mall.
I had about a pound of sand in each cuff of my pants.

Here is a picture of Caleb being dramatic. He told me he was pretending he had been wandering the desert for weeks and he had run out of water. Then he fell over and rolled down the hill to his "death". What a ham!

It was a really nice visit from the Jows and the Lees. Please come again soon and let's not wait another ten years.