The Bear's Visit

This past week, Bear and Bobbie came down to visit with Soph and Lucy! We have been so excited for them to come down! They got in late Friday night, after an unintentional detour through Flagstaff, so we stayed in, had some Cafe Rio takeout and did some catching up! We went and played at the park by our house on Saturday, since we were getting our granite in the kitchen (the guy was supposed to come Thursday before the fam came in, but what can you do?). As you can see from the pictures Sophie was quite determined to get in the pool despite the cold water temperature. The air is warm but the pool temperature hasn't caught up yet. Bear could only take so much begging and the softie finally gave in. He tossed Soph into the pool. It was so cold she could hardly breathe. So he scooped her back up and pulled her out shivering. It was tough to understand through chattering teeth but we were able to make out that, according to her, the water was warm and she wanted to get back in.
On Sunday, we went to Freestone park and had a picnic and fed the ducks. Soph enjoyed the park enough that we made a return trip later in the week to feed the ducks again. Best $1 we ever spent!

We hung out around the house on Monday, and Bobbie and I crafted, since we were getting our sink reconnected after a weekend out of the kitchen, and we watched some 3-D movies. I had to work on Tuesday, so Bear & Bobbie hung out with some of their friends from the U of U, and Andy & I met up with them for dinner at Joe's Farm Grill. So tasty.

On Thursday, we went to the "zoo park." The Phx Zoo is a pretty good one, and Soph seemed to love it!

We went boating on Friday with Addi, Blake & the boys, and Blake's dad. He was nice enough to invite us along for the ride! We went up to Saguaro Lake, which was still pretty cold, but the boys and the kids rode on a tube behind the boat. That's right all you in the frozen north!!! Boating in February! They had a great time until right before we were going to call it a day, the tube caught in the front and submarined under! Max and Jack hung on but Andy had to bail. Needless to say, Jack and Max both tapped out after that and we were done. And Jeff's cat like reflexes caught the sinking with their camera. That is Jack's "is this fun or terrifying?" face.

We also had some intense Canasta tournaments, tried out some new facial techniques I found on pinterest (it will take all the gunk off your skin...but may rip off your face!), watched Soph play around in the pool (well, on a step of the pool--it is still too cold!), and just enjoyed having them down here in AZ! We also spent a lot of time trying to convince them to move down here with us, but I think we'll have to keep working on them!