Highlights from Houston

We had a great visit in Houston - watched the little ones for a couple days of the visit while CJ and Sara took a break. The temperature was in the low 80's every day. Quite a contrast to what we found when we returned to Utah. The pickup had 6 inches of ice on it - the foot of snow that had fallen while we were gone had partially melted, compacted and then refroze to form a nice 6 inch layer of ice on everything. (Dave and Emily, thanks for clearing our walks and driveway - they were great).

I think some of you have never seen Sara and CJ's home. She has shown you pictures of the inside on the blog. Here is a picture of the outside. It really is a lovely home and they have done a great job decorating.

Sara took us to look at some model homes in their development while we were there. Some in the $300,000 range were super-nice, about 5000 sq ft and would be $1 million plus in Draper.

And here is Charlie is his brand new Jedi Knight outfit -specifically ObeWanKinobe - that Grandma made for him while we were there.

And some more of Mom and Sara's handiwork in painting and putting a border up in Charlies room (Sara wanted the two tone paint and a chair rail, but I couldn't haul my compressor, nail gun, and miter saw to Houston on the plane. We could have rented them, but Sara decided a border would be fine. She went out and found this one - should look familiar to you, Emily!! Looks great in Charlie's room too.

And I could show a picture of the additional electrical outlet I installed in Sara's master bathroom, but you have probably all seen an electrical outlet before!

And finally, the day we left (yesterday) we went to Passmore Elementary School in Alvin, TX and took a McDonald's lunch and had lunch with Hannah - she is in a bilingual program there.

As you can see, a good time was had by all. We thank Sara and CJ for their great hospitality.

We were also fortunate to have Janet and Holly over for Pizza on Monday evening. Steven was in Amsterdam so we decided we would have to excuse him - just a little bit too much of a commute - but we had a great visit with Janet and Holly and we thank them for driving about an hour each way to come and visit with us.