Family in Town

Mr. Hunt and I love when we get to spend time with family, even if its for a short two days. Its like our tank was running low and we got a little juice back. We feel rejuvenated or something. It wasn't until we moved this far from our family that we realized how much family time really is the best....sad but true.

Anyway, Michael and Rachel came to visit for Friday and Saturday this past weekend. It was short but fun.

They came in Thursday night but Mr. Hunt had to work the next day so we just said hi, showed them around the house and hit the hay.

The next day we hung around the house, Rachel and I walked to get some pastries for breakfast, and we waited for Mr. Hunt to come home. He was able to break away and eat lunch with us which was nice. We tried a new place called Habana which was yummy.

Then we took them to Freddies for happy hour and dinner (Mr. Hunt and I go there every Friday). Mr. Hunt and Michael played a game of washers and Rachel, Jane, and I caught up on life.

Friday night after we put Jane to sleep, we played some wii. We haven't got the wii out in forever so it was fun to do something different.

Saturday morning, Mr. Hunt and Michael went to shoot guns while Rachel and I played with Jane and went to the grocery store to get ready for the evening festivities.

The one and only request that Michael and Rachel had for when they came was to go to the Salt Lick which is a yummy BBQ restaurant here. They have an average of 2000 people who eat there on Saturdays so its busy all day, but there is an outdoor area where you can sit and listen to live music and you also bring your own beer and snacks for while you wait.

Michael made a little art on the table we were sitting at. This is all of our initials.

Jane is at a fun age where she can sit up and look around and take everything in. She was more interested in Uncle Michael's beer than her sippy cup.

Such a  beautiful little girl

While packing the cooler with beer, sodas, and snacks, I totally forgot Jane's nipple for her bottle. Bad bad mommy. Hey, at least I remembered the bottle. Good thing she drinks out of a sippy cup. We just poured the formula in the sippy.

Jane loves her Uncle Mike and Aunt Rach.

We hardly have any family pictures.  Here are a few.

We had a few drinks and snacks and enjoyed ourselves before we ate.

The BBQ was delicious as always and Jane ate blueberries and apples for her dinner.

She liked it as much as we liked our BBQ. By the way....this girl will NOT wear a bib! As soon as I put one on, she pulls it off. Guess I need to get the ones with snaps so that she can't pull them off as easy.

She was SO tired when we got back into the car. 

I had a few extra marshmallows from the last time I made smores in the backyard and I knew that Rachel also enjoys smores, but we weren't too excited about starting a whole fire in the backyard once we got home from the Salt Lick, so we went to Pinterest and made a recipe that I had pinned. 

Only problem was that our oven doesnt have the top broilers to toast the marshmallows, so Rachel tediously toasted them with a lighter. It was good, but would have been better if we made a few adjustments. 

They had to leave early the next morning so we just played Wii again that evening once Jane went to sleep. 

The next day, Mr. Hunt and I just relaxed and cleaned up the house. Jane is officially ALL OVER THE PLACE! She doesn't sit still anymore. Here she is trying to go play with Hannah. She is also growing like a weed. I asked Mr. Hunt to bring me a onsie from her room and he brought out this one that I swear fit her like a week ago. I couldn't even snap it at the bottom, but I didn't feel like going to get another. 

The dogs were super tired too.

Once again, we really enjoyed our time with them. Sometimes though, it makes us more home sick to spend time with family for such a short time and know that it may be awhile before we see them again. I cannot wait until we can live closer again.....whenever that might be.

Love,
Jennifer