A few hours after we got back from the shower, Lisa's water broke and little Orrin was born the next morning. Good timing for me and Amy. We got to be the first ones at the hospital to greet him.
I spent the better part of a week helping Lisa with the new baby. Just days after I got home I got appendicitis and had to have an apentectomy. Dumb. Two weeks after that, we took off for New York to go visit Scott and Heather and the girls. SO MUCH FUN!
We visited all the sites around Buffalo including Niagra Falls, Palmyra and the Hill Cumorah Pageant, and Amish country. And no vacation would be complete without visiting the Birthplace of the Grain Elevator. :)
But mostly we just spent a lot of time with Scott and Heather, Rylee and Piper. Rylee was pretty much attached to my hip the whole time. Love those little girls!
When we got home, Tad and Teri and the boys came to visit. We enjoyed having them here. While they were here, Amy's car (Whitey Rodriguez) died. He's been such a loyal friend to her that we decided to have a fiesta for him to celebrate his life.
Teri made a pinata for the fiesta in a miniature likeness of Whitey. (She had a little help from baby Badger) We parked Whitey in the back yard, rolled down his windows and blasted Spanish music.
After the kids took their turns hitting the pinata, Amy got her turn. When she knocked it off it's string, Tad kept throwing it at her until she smacked it enough and it broke open. The kids loved it!
Scott and Heather were visiting her parents in Ogden, so they came down for a day and all the cousins got to be together for a few hours. This is a horrible picture of the kids, but I love it because they are actually all together.
Just a couple weeks ago, we traveled again to Rock Springs and saw little Orrin get blessed. A good way to end the summer.
Just a couple weeks ago, we traveled again to Rock Springs and saw little Orrin get blessed. A good way to end the summer.