We got home on Wednesday from the Tree House, enjoyed my parents company most of the day on Thursday... by the way-that was super nice of them to add 230 miles to their trip just to come see our house and eat at Buns Over Texas with us. Sorry the groundhogs were such a disaster. Friday we packed up again and headed out to Arizona to hang out with Jeff's best friend, his wife and little girl. 
Twistan loved Brynlee. Loved her. She liked him pretty good, too... she called him "Baby" and was constantly talking about him. She just barely turned 2 and was surprisingly patient. He crawled over one morning and pulled himself up on her clothes, instead of shoving him off she just yelled at him, "No, Baby! Noooo!" It was pretty cute.
Of course, in true Ben and Julia fashion we weren't bored a bit. I don't have any photos, but we went out New Year's Eve to a block party with 100,000 of our closest friends. We watched BMX demonstrations, ate tons of chips, ate way too much burger and fries, ate cookies and ice cream and watched the chip drop into the dip. It was pretty fun. Tristan also had his first non-family babysitter. Holly was a darling 12 year old and did fantastic with him and Brynnlee. We went swimming, we went to eat at crazy restaurants, and we went country dancing at San Tan Flats.
We also dragged poor Julia hiking. She's almost 7 months pregnant with their little boy, and was the nicest host ever.
I'm totally bummed I didn't take more pictures of us all together! It just seemed like we did non stop activities the whole 5 days we were there. We saw the new Sherlock Holmes, we watched football, ate fresh citrus off trees.. enjoyed the park, and then every night we harassed each other playing Settlers or other games. I don't think I have laughed that hard for that long since I don't know when. At one point I think we all cried we laughed so hard. We were super sad to leave, and Ben talked us into staying one more day. We're glad we did. They're a blast.
Tristan was not pleased to be in a backpack hiking again. He would have rather sat in the dirt and ate rocks. Little bugger. I have to add that after we drove 5 hours to Garner, we thought we'd try driving at night so as to avoid a screeching baby who wants out of his car seat. It was so much better. The drive to Arizona is 12 hours-so we left at about 4 in the afternoon both days and had so much less baby to listen to. The only bummer is driving through the dark when you hit pretty places like Cloudcroft, New Mexico. We almost ran over an elk there on the way home. But definitely it's easier to drive at night with a baby... although it's always that last hour at 5am that's killer!
Twistan loved Brynlee. Loved her. She liked him pretty good, too... she called him "Baby" and was constantly talking about him. She just barely turned 2 and was surprisingly patient. He crawled over one morning and pulled himself up on her clothes, instead of shoving him off she just yelled at him, "No, Baby! Noooo!" It was pretty cute.
Of course, in true Ben and Julia fashion we weren't bored a bit. I don't have any photos, but we went out New Year's Eve to a block party with 100,000 of our closest friends. We watched BMX demonstrations, ate tons of chips, ate way too much burger and fries, ate cookies and ice cream and watched the chip drop into the dip. It was pretty fun. Tristan also had his first non-family babysitter. Holly was a darling 12 year old and did fantastic with him and Brynnlee. We went swimming, we went to eat at crazy restaurants, and we went country dancing at San Tan Flats.
We also dragged poor Julia hiking. She's almost 7 months pregnant with their little boy, and was the nicest host ever.
I'm totally bummed I didn't take more pictures of us all together! It just seemed like we did non stop activities the whole 5 days we were there. We saw the new Sherlock Holmes, we watched football, ate fresh citrus off trees.. enjoyed the park, and then every night we harassed each other playing Settlers or other games. I don't think I have laughed that hard for that long since I don't know when. At one point I think we all cried we laughed so hard. We were super sad to leave, and Ben talked us into staying one more day. We're glad we did. They're a blast.
Tristan was not pleased to be in a backpack hiking again. He would have rather sat in the dirt and ate rocks. Little bugger. I have to add that after we drove 5 hours to Garner, we thought we'd try driving at night so as to avoid a screeching baby who wants out of his car seat. It was so much better. The drive to Arizona is 12 hours-so we left at about 4 in the afternoon both days and had so much less baby to listen to. The only bummer is driving through the dark when you hit pretty places like Cloudcroft, New Mexico. We almost ran over an elk there on the way home. But definitely it's easier to drive at night with a baby... although it's always that last hour at 5am that's killer!
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