Came and Gone

As I have previously mentioned, Dom and I had some visitors this past week and a half. They are all gone now but the excitement still lingers. It starts off with Kelsey. It was so fun to see her. We had lunch and we did some catching up. She told me about a pretty sweet church that Dom and I actually like and plan on going back to. It was nice to have a friend around again. Next was Brooke. Her visiting was awesome! It was so nice to have a piece of home here and I just love her to bits too. I picked her up Friday around two or something and then took her home to do work. We were having our open "house" party that night and I still needed to make a couple things. I put her right to work and we made the enchiladas. The people started coming over and she got to meet all of Dom's family again. She survived Dom's dad and captured Dom's mom and aunt. They are still talking about how nice and sweet she is.

The party was such a success. We didn't think a lot of people would show and the ones who did would leave half way through but everyone we invited showed up, with food and stayed the whole time. We mingled, ate, mingled again, had cake and coffee and then watched Count of Monte Cristo. Some people hadn't seen it and enjoyed the story. Dom and I were extremely pleased with how it all turned out. Having Brooke there really calmed my nerves. I was pretty much stuck to her all night.

That next day Brooke, Dom and I went to see The Hangover with April up in Auburn. We had seen the previews and thought it looked hilarious and Brooke's friend said that it was so funny and that it wasn't ronchy either so we were stoked to see it. Well, the friend totally lied. There was full on nudity, cursing, and it just wasn't that funny. I was sadly disappointed. After that we all went out to coffee and Brooke and Apey got to catch up. Later we went on a little hike under the Foresthill Bridge and after that we headed home, packed up Brookie and drove her to Davis to drop her off with her posey. It was sad to say goodbye but she said that she wants to come and visit again and that she would stay longer next time so I was satisfied.

That Sunday Katie Newman came over for some coffee with Dom and I and she is just so much fun to talk to that we had a blast seeing how her life is and catching up. She said that we have to go floating down the river over the summer and we are so ready to that, I think we made it a plan but we'll see what happens. She left and headed off to her house and we chilled at home since we missed church. Oopsies.

Next, we had Austin come to the house. He came last Monday and he flew in. Now he is twelve years old and he was flying alone so my mom wanted me to go to the gate to pick him up. In order to do that you need to check in with the ticket counter and get a fake little pass to go through security. The guy who checked me in noticed that my brother and I have different last names and he looked at me skeptically and asked about it. I told him yes we do but that was all. Then he asked if I was going to pick up my boyfriend and me being an optimistic idiot thought that maybe he was hitting on me and said, "No but I am going to take him home to see my husband." I said it with a little bit of attitude as well. It wasn't until I realized that he sent me to the wrong gate, a gate that didn't exist, that he wasn't hitting on me he just thought that I was using the brother excuse to pick up my boyfriend. I felt like such a tard.

The week with Austin went pretty smooth. We watched movies, walked through Auburn, bought a plant, played cards with Dom and read. I felt bad for the little guy cause Dom and I don't have the most exciting lives and I thought that most of the time he was bored out of his mind but he said he had a great time. That Thursday the rest of my family flew in and they brought us an XBOX 360 as a house warming present. Dom and I were so excited because we had been wanting one since it can do so much entertainment wise. If you get this wireless adapter thing then you can play your Netflix, Hulu and other shows through your TV instatly and you can also play your iTunes through your soundsystem. Then we all had dinner and hung out, it was so nice to be around my family again. I had missed them terribly.

The next day Dom got work off and we all went to Sacramento and walked all around. We saw the capitol, the governer's mansion, old town Sac. and pretty much everthing else you can think off. We did so much walking. After that we went home, had a two hour break, rejoined to have dinner at CPK, my fav., and then made dessert at our place. Brownies, ice cream, whipped, cream and chocolate syrup, yum!

Sat. was supposed to be spent hanging out at Rowland's lake but the weather was too cold so we went on the Foresthill trail that we took Brooke on but we went further this time and even went down to the river that the trail runs along and the boys and Dom went swimming. There was this sweet tall rock that they could dive off of. This little hike got us all pretty tired but after this we went up to Dom's parent's house and had dinner. The boys got warn out by Havilah who happens to have the same energy level as Logan and if you know my brother you know that it's an insane amount of energy. We walked down to see the horses and Craig and I helped pick up poop and bring the horses in. This concluded the evening and on the way home my brothers passed out in the back of the car because they were just exhausted.

The next day, yesterday, was Father's day and my parents were leaving at 8am and I wanted to get up and say goodbye to them. I also decided to bring them coffee and doughnuts as a Happy Father's day gift as well as a goodbye. I had to get up real early because I know they do and I didn't want them going to get gross coffee from the lobby before I got there. I showed up around 6:30am, right after their alarm went off. They were surprised and happy to have the Starbuck's coffee. I got to hang out with them as they continued to get ready and then we all went out to breakfast at IHOP. Dom didn't join us because it would have been way to difficult to get him up that early especially when he didn't have to. So he stayed in bed and I brought him breakfast. Anyway, I gave them all huge hugs goodbye and sent them off on their vacation. It was pretty hard to say goodbye but they'll be back. And so concludeds our busy week and a half with family and friends. :)