Spring Break Part 1 - Hanging Out

Hello loyal blog followers (all seven of you:).  Sorry we have been silent all this last week, but we were just so busy busy busy.  We were lucky enough to have my family (my mom, sister, and niece and nephews) come out to Idaho and visit us for their spring break.  There is plenty to write about, so I will probably have to break up the week into multiple posts, but I will try to get you all caught up.

Mitchell gave his typical "deer in the headlights" look when my family arrived (I think he was trying to figure out who they all were), but it did not take long for him to warm up to them.  Of course, how could he not?  Our niece, Farah, took it upon herself to feed him all the time, run into his room when she heard him yelling, picked him up when he started whining, and really was just at his beck and call.  And our nephews, Connor and Bodie, became pros at making Mitchell laugh; he just thought they were hilarious.  And of course, Grandma and Aunt Tanya just doted all over him and commented multiple times on what a great baby he is.  We all are really going to miss them and hope they can come out and visit us again soon:)


Mitchell did not lack in the food department.  Everyone was on hand to feed this hungry boy:

Mitchell bonding with Grandma.

I think Farah fed him the most.  Let's just say that Mitchell loved "hanging out" with Farah;)

Mitchell tried ice cream for the 1st time and loved it!!  Mmmm!!

And many, many, many video games were played:

Connor and Bodie were extra excited to play games with their Uncle Chris.  They view him as the guru of video games, so they were excited to learn from him and of course, to try and beat him.  Smash Brothers was their game of choice.

And of course, Mitchell wanted to get in on the action and hang with the boys.

And more games were played on tablets and smart phones.  Bodie and Mitchell became great tablet buddies.

Connor and Farah were showing us all how it is done, playing Just Dance 2014.

We also went shopping and had fun just hanging out around the house:

Bodie met a friend at the mall; he was so excited to "hold" her hand.

Connor and Bodie hanging out in our front yard.  The first thing Bodie did when he arrived at our house was run to this tree and started climbing it.  Haha, I guess boys will be boys:)

Just hanging out, getting ready to watch some movies.  Chris was determined to turn my family into sci-fi junkies, so we watched both of the newer Star Trek movies and a few Star Wars movies while they were here.  The scary thing is that his plan might have worked; my family loved the movies and were asking a bunch of "behind the scenes" storyline questions.  Congratulations Chris, you now have some more fellow Trekkie friends;)