The Hardens!

My Aunt Faye and Uncle Mike came to visit and they brought their delightful granddaughter Kaycee with them for her graduation gift. She got to meet over 30 cousins for the first time. She is so sweet and fun! We had tons of fun keeping her entertained.

Tim, Sara, Freddy and Drew went and played laser tag with her on her second day here.

Day #3 Sara and I got to join Gram, Papa, Mike, Faye and Kaycee when they saw The Little Mermaid at the Hale Theater. It was SOOO good! The costumes were amazing and the Broadway version has lots more songs than the movie. The story is a little different too. We loved it!

Sara and Kaycee sitting on Ariel's rocks.

Gram and Papa

Uncle Mike and Aunt Faye

Just before bows, you can see some of the costumes. Hale Theater is in the round, so the audience surrounds the stage.

After the show we got pictures with the cast.

Here are the girls with King Triton

Ursula 

Sebastian and Flounder

And of course Ariel and Prince Eric

It was a great show and a lot of fun being together. After the show we brought Kaycee home with us to spend the night. We kept her up too late talking and being silly. 

After we all slept in, the next morning, we played some games and then took her out for Thai food, at The Royal Jasmine,  and shopping with Sara, Laney and I. It was her first Thai food and she loved it. 

She and Sara had massaman curry and Laney and I had red curry.

Saturday night, Dandi's family came and spent the night and we had Brandon, Lilly, KenaDee and Makaila over to see Tim. We had the biggest family prayer that night.  I had everyone stay in place for a picture afterward because it was so awesome!

Mike, Faye and Kaycee joined all the Ely gang at church for Josh's homecoming talk and Tim's farewell talk. We had a lot of Alger family and tons of friends there as well.  The place was packed!

After church we had all the family over for dinner. We had homemade mac and cheese and ribs with lots of yummy side dishes. It was wonderful to visit with everyone together.

 I was so busy visiting I forgot to get pictures. We did get a few before the Hardens left since we would not be seeing them again before they went home to Georgia.

A monsoon storm was rolling in and it was super windy. 

Sam and Jessi would only give me poses like this.

This is when the twins left for Tucson with the Wrights.

KenaDee, Brandon and Lilly

Giving Tim lots of love before he leaves!

Gavin, Jessi and I got to sing and play the piano together, a rare, but wonderful thing!

It was such an awesome week with the Hardens. Kaycee, Aunt Faye and Uncle Mike are the sweetest and we felt so blessed to have so much time with them. I hope they come again soon!