A visit with Grandma & Grandpa Gould

Friday night David's parents drove out to see us for a few days. We haven't seen them since March of last year. Although we use something called Skype, a way to talk & see each other over the Internet, it is not the same as being together. All afternoon Zhara kept asking if they were still coming, so when Grandpa called to say they were here she was at the door in a second. She went downstairs to greet them & was just so excited they were here. Alyssa was a little nervous, but that went away as soon as Grandma gave her hugs & kisses. Thursday night they stayed at my parents house to make the drive a little more bearable and it was fun for them to see my parents house and pictures of me as I grew up. Saturday morning we woke up & went hiking & showed them all the cactus. I was a little nervous about the rattlesnakes being out and when the Ranger walks past me & said "the rattlesnakes are out, watch your little ones" I held my breath hoping we would not see any & thank goodness we didn't. After the hike we had a BBQ & went swimming. David & Grandpa taught the girls how to play chicken. Alyssa knocked Zhara off a couple of times but Grandpa kept her out of the water. After a nap the girls went to dinner with Aimee & her boyfriend, Glenn while we went out with David's parents. The girls had so much fun because Glenn had a DVD player in his car & they got to go to Dave & Busters. Monday the girls and I took Grandma to Alyssa's dance class & then to the zoo. Grandma took the girls to see the sting rays and Zhara liked touching them, Alyssa just wanted to watch. They had a great time & although we only got to see 1/3 of the zoo in 2 hours we were very tired when we left. Grandpa went to work with David for the day and then we ended the night with ice cream at Cold Stone. Tuesday Grandma got to see Zhara's school and Zhara showed her around the class room. That afternoon we all went to watch Zhara do gymnastics & then some great friends watched the girls so that we could go to the temple. For the Gould's who are reading this you know that no Gould function is complete without a game, so even though it was 1030 when we got back from the temple and after 11 pm when we ate dinner, we played our very favorite game (thank you Dorman family!!!) Ticket to Ride. It was really funny because we were all sooooo tired (we did not go to bed once before midnight the whole time they were here), in fact Bob made some comment and when he asked me what I said I was laughing so hard I think it took me 10 min to get it out. They left on Wed morning and we were all sad to see them go. Zhara gave Grandpa a Tinkerbell valentine card and when he gave her a hug she said "this is so we can be friends forever" As we watched them leave Zhara said "I miss them already. Can we go see them tomorrow?" I hope you enjoy the slide show of a few moments we had with them.