Surprise!

I thought the title might get some of you here...no baby yet ;) But we did have a GREAT surprise on Sunday Dec 28th E's family showed up at our door! They live 22 hours away. I knew for a week that they were coming, and thank heavens because to say I've slacked lately in all departments is an understatement! But E was entirely surprised and was just laughing, it was great! They stayed with us through New Year's day, and here are some of the events!

They came with more gifts than we had for ourselves on Christmas Day! Including this bounce house for Sawyer, which he of course loves, and quickly learned to stand back and toss the balls in himself.
On Monday we toured E's school and showed them where all the magic happens. We played some ping pong, foosball, pool and Ms. PacMan in the rec room. They surprisingly didn't want to go to the anatomy lab and see all the dead bodies. Then we ate at the most happening place in town, Ruby Tuesday. That evening we played games...I think, we played a lot of Catch Phrase and Outburst!

Tuesday we headed out to Nauvoo, 2 hours away, and Sawyer was quite entertained with his Nana! The last time they saw us, or Sawyer, he was 6 weeks old, so it was great for them to get to see our little growing guy!Three Ernesto's! (Sawyer is actually E. Sawyer) E with his sister Laura.
Ernesto Sr. and Patrick, Laura's husband.Sawyer enjoying a candy during lunch in Nauvoo.E, Mom, Dad and LauraE and his papa.

New Year's Eve we bummed around, playing games, watching movies...there isn't too much to do around here. Oh and of course we went to WalMart. We celebrated the New Year in style with hats, food, dancing...it was great!

Thank you so much for coming to visit us! We love you and miss you already. We were sad not to see E's sister Celi and her husband and kids, hopefully it won't be long. Being Panamanians and Floridians, they were very excited for cold and snow...we didn't deliver on the snow, but it was cold!