Holiday visit with some Stansbury friends!!

There was no way we were going to be in Utah and not spend at least a morsel of time with a few of our good friends in Stansbury! The kids and I drove down from Logan on the 29th. We gave Fode, Mel and baby Mae a ride to the airport and then headed west to our old home sweet home! The weather was bad, the roads were bad, and there had been freeway closures earlier. So the normally 15 minute drive from the airport took us 90 minutes! But we prevailed and finally arrived at the Grgich's!! Wahoo! We hugged and the kids were bouncing off the walls, and Amy cried! It was so good to see them and so FUN to play with the kids a little bit. We spent the night there. It was way too short, but grateful we got to spend some tie together! Can't wait til they get their buns up here to WA for a vacation

We gave the kids these adorable monster PJ's!

The kids stayed up watching kid movies and Amy and I talked til we dropped.

The next morning I dropped Logan off at Wyatt and Ezra's house and Ellie off at Anna's house. I have no pictures to show for it but they were in heaven! Ellie got to see a couple other girls while she was playing with Anna, and she cried when we left! Logan brought Wyatt and Ez Christmas gifts that he was so excite about...fleece pillows with their favorite football teams fabric. We also got to visit with Connie and Devun for just a short time, but it was great to see them!

After I dropped the kids off, I was off to Rose's house for brunch with a few of the neighborhood bunch. So So, soooo very good to spend time with these ladies who will always be so dear to me. I didn't get to spend nearly enough time with anyone and there are so many others I'd loved to have seen. But I was grateful for these few hours and for the fact that we picked up right where we left off.

Me with two of my kinder-teacher peeps, Amy and Amy.

I even got to see a couple of my kinder kids! Carter is so grown up Reagan is loving spanish dual immersion! 

Then it was off to Arriane's to take off for a late lunch with a few gals. Tiffany J. was also there, but had to go before we took a pic. It was the best seeing these fabulous women, and of course Mandy had us laughing the whole time. We were planning to go to Thai House...I'd been thinking about it for weeks! But it was closed! Totally random! So we tried a new place and it was pretty good.

While I was this their mamas, Ellie got to hang out with Emily and Anika. Fun to get to visit Emily for a little bit even though she was pretty sick. 

Hard to leave Stansbury Park again. We were going to go see our house and meet the new owners, but we ran out of time. Which is a good thing because I realized I am not ready to go there yet. It's too soon Too hard. It felt like I should just pull into the driveway and go inside....like it's still our house. But alas....it's not. But we will always have amazing friends to go visit in Stansbury Park!