Jack Ash

Last weekend my brother Jordan and his wife Amanda came to visit with baby Asher. Jack and Asher are the only grandkids on my side and they were born 6 days apart. It's been so fun to have them in the same stage as us through pregnancy and baby things. Granted, Jack and Asher are very different (Asher was nice to his mom in the womb, and he's verrry calm and sleeps great at night), but they are developmentally doing a lot of the same things at the same time. Also, look how cute they are.

I'm still figuring out how to be a good hostess. In other places we've lived (the Caribbean and Atlanta) I'd try to show guests a good time by getting them out to see the sites. Casper doesn't have many "sites," and I'm realizing that when we have guests they've probably come all that way to see us and not so much Casper, so it's ok to relax a bit and spend time together at our home instead of go go go. I feel like we had a pretty good balance of relaxing and getting out with Jordan, Amanda, and Asher. Having babies and working around their nap schedules forces you to slow down a bit anyway.

 ^^Jared uncling Asher.

^^Jordan uncling Jack.

They got into town late Thursday night, and luckily Jared had a 3-day weekend so we were able to spend a lot of time all together. On Friday morning we relaxed and Jared planted some more cute plants my parents sent up for us. After the babies had their morning naps, we took off for an "outdoorsy" day seeing the waterfall and Lake McKenzie (a little pond near our home that smells a little weird but is pretty). 

At McKenzie Lake we took turns floating around on our inflatable raft and then we headed home and had some dinner. Jordan and Amanda sent us out for a little date night while they stayed home and got the babies to sleep and hung out. We are so so so grateful to them! This was our first date together since we moved to Casper nearly 4 months ago.

^^The view from our mailbox, which we checked before heading out on our date. We hit up the mall massage chairs, walked around the lighting section at Menards, got frozen yogurt, and had a nice drive together.  

On Saturday we hit up the thrift stores, Target, and this cute lil' soda/shake shop downtown. The chocolate soda and shake were mediocre, but my old-fashioned cream soda float and Jared's oreo shake were SO good.

Back at home we napped, the boys played with Asher's super cool toys, and we had a baby photoshoot.

I'm just now realizing that there are, like, no pictures of me or Amanda from this weekend. I guess we were always the ones behind the cameras. One day we will have to train our babies to take pictures so we can be in the shot sometimes!

We finished off the evening with a walk, then we picked up some pizza from Bar Nunn's local bar and had a game night after the boys went to sleep. Jared demolished everyone in our last round playing Ticket to Ride. He's the rudest.

And that was our fun weekend with family! Probably the last family we'll see until Thanksgiving, which is only 2 months away now. We love these guys and are grateful they came all that way to see lil' ol' us in our lil' ol' house. Next time we move hopefully we'll have a basement or upstairs where guests can enjoy a little more privacy and babies can nap in a quieter area, but for now we're just so grateful to be where we are and have what we have. And to have such wonderful family in our life. We are the luckiest.