We had a lovely surprise two weeks ago. Lainey's brother Nathan decided to take a long layover in Phoenix on his way home to Boston. His "layover" lasted a week and we were very happy to have him. He was a wonderful guest - neat, helpful, low-maintenance and appreciative of my cooking :)
Nathan knows a lot about pretty much everything and he enjoys plants and gardens. He was very helpful in giving us ideas for our garden and helped clean it up, plant new seeds, and collect some grape vines to root in our yard. He is also a computer whiz and spent many late nights doing some fix-ups on our computers AND he set up an old laptop in our kitchen for me to use as my recipe/calendar/radio computer. I am loving it!!! Nathan happily tolerated the girls early risings and was a wonderful babysitter. Curly and Lou loved having an in house "tickle monster" and in spite of their dinner time protests that they didn't want to "sit by a boy" were very sad when it was time for him to leave.
Nathan has the same talent for taking photos as my mom does and he managed to capture many great shots of our prosaic daily life. . .
After picking him up, we visited the Mesa temple and each took a turn doing some temple work.
Curly playing with Bubba.
Lou getting ready to peel a "temple" orange that Nathan picked
On Saturday we drove to the mountain 3 miles from our house and took a hike and picnic lunch.
At the park - Curly's "sand" angel
Bread making day - Lou tried to be helpful by taking the loaves out of the oven right after I put them in... resulting in some mis-shapen bread.
Our garden has been pretty pitiful, but we managed to produce some very healthy looking sugar snap peas. YUM!
Nathan took on the task of official Bubba carrier. It was very nice to have a
safe set of hands always willing to hold her.
Curly and Lou helping make cookies.
Curly and Lou playing the "plano." We have been teaching Curly until she started lessons this month and so far she is doing great!
Thank your for coming to visit Nathan!!! You are welcome any time!
She has the cutest toes and has discovered her hands and is often clasping them in contemplation of some grand event.
And she only has eyes for this fuzzy bear mobile. Diaper changing time is happy time for Bubba. The moment you plop her on the change table she sees that bear and starts smiling and talking.
