Ray and Warren

We've enjoyed visits from family this summer - some for 2 hours, some for 2 days, some for 2 weeks.  No matter the length, we love seeing family.  Ray and Warren, Alex's aunt and uncle, stayed with us for 2 weeks - we hope you enjoyed your time here!  Thanks for making the trek all the way from Florida.  Ray and Warren are great with tech support, so they fixed most of our computers and gadgets.  They even set up wireless for us, which we hadn't bothered to do yet.  And (perhaps unfortunately)  :) they got the Leap Frog video game working again, and the boys are hooked to that.  At least I have a new motivator for chores, as they will be earning time on the game.  Warren also introduced Nathan to on-line chess and played several games with him, coaching him on strategy.  I thought the boys might run them off, especially since the boys don't understand personal space, but I guess they didn't mind too much having them constantly looking over their shoulder or playing with toys in their room.  I did take the boys on some extra outings for the good of all...

Ray & Warren did some of their own exploring, we took them to the beach a couple of times, and they took us out to eat at a yummy pizza place and a great Italian place downtown.  Alex did a few little trips with them as well.  We also enjoyed homemade dinner on our anniversary, the house special, "Ray's Rotel-Roni" (okay, I made up the name...) but it was a very tasty spaghetti with pepperoni and Rotel.  (They also didn't know it was our anniversary, but it worked out nice to have them make dinner that night.)  Thanks!  We hope you enjoyed our "bed-and-make-your-own-breakfast" with little critters running around.  ;)

(thanks for taking our picture Ray!)

on our 11th anniversary