In mid October, my brother and his family thought it was finally time for a visit up to SLC. In the Before Times, as we sometimes like to call the pre-covid days, Peter and Sheri were up here practically every other month for a visit, and we went there multiple times a year. But these days it had been months and months since they had been here. In June their girls came up to celebrate Emma's birthday, and of course my girls and I went down in August, but nothing like the regular time together. We were excited to see them for a few days.
The weekend started off with good fun - Romney's cello teacher had gotten a new puppy and we were puppy sitting for the afternoon. This puppy is the tiniest little thing ever. It's half chihuahua and half yorkie terrier - so small. And so cute. Her time with us overlapped with the arrival of Peter and company.
Isn't she so cute? Of course, in true puppy fashion, she is much less cute when she's having a moment of biting frenzy and is trying to chew your fingers off.
The reason Peter and Sheri were coming north was because her family was having a little reunion of sorts in Heber. That was supposed to be Friday night. And we had sad news - our sister-in-law Tonja's mother passed away that week and we were heading to the funeral in Vernal on Saturday. So we really didn't have a ton of time together. But then their family reunion dinner got cancelled and suddenly we had more time together than we thought. I was sorry that her family wasn't getting together but wasn't so sorry that we had more time.
Our first order of business, after returning the puppy, was to have Halloween movie night. We pulled the Luv Sac into the living room and gathered around to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas. This movie has only taken 30 years to grow on me but finally it has. I really love it.
Troy had the very lucky job of snuggling up with the littles on the sac to watch the show. So cute. I wish they would stop growing up.
Friday of course entailed a trip to the zoo - do I even need to type that anymore?
The other thing that Sheri did was book us time in an escape room at the spur of the moment. I have never done an escape room - they always sound sort of alarming and stressful to me. Plus this was happening at a haunted house and was supposedly a zombie-themed room so I immediately did not want to participate. Chase was excited to go though and invited a friend. We got Emma and Cara to agree to babysit Iva and Sam (also did not feel great about this, just knowing Emma's tendency to slightly overreact to problems but Sheri assured me it would be fine). I confess to being extremely nervous. I hate going to haunted houses.
So guess what. It was completely fun. We had a rather big group and it was a little chaotic as were were all in this little tiny room all rushing around solving puzzles, or trying to. We didn't make much headway for about a half hour, but we ended up completing all the puzzles and escaping the room in just under the 1 hour time limit. And there were no zombie actors coming in and scaring us, for which we have Covid to thank. We were supposed to have zombies in a cage in the corner but nope! So that was a little anticlimactic. But we really had fun!
Then on the way home Chase and his buddy Brandon got a flat tire and Troy had to go rescue them and it took forever. Super hero dad. They would have been so toasted without him. Eventually everyone made it home and we enjoyed a dinner from Zao and watching a very bizarre movie that was Sheri's recommendation. It was called Scared Stiff and was a very old movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. Had no idea that those two were once a comic pair. Seemed weird to me! It was pretty funny, though I'm not sure if we laughed more with the movie or at it.
In the meantime we captured this beautiful sight:
Oh how we love cousins.
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