She'll Be Coming Down the Mountain When She Comes...

I have been bothering my Mom to come down to visit for a while now, and she did! My Dad decided to take one last trip to Colorado this weekend, so my mom came down while he did that. She came down Wednesday afternoon just in time for She, Daisy and I to catch GCC vs. Scottsdale. GCC lost, but it was so fun to watch good volleyball. Also brought back a lot of memories, I do miss playing at that level, but I am glad to be where I am. Anyway Thursday brought my sister Heidi's Fall Swap Party. If you don't know what that is, its a party where you bring a basket full of fall stuff and then play white elephant. We spent the day baking, cleaning and also got to eat Barros Pizza. Its the best. I am pretty sure I ate away all the past weeks of eating healthy, oh well. Friday was a laid back day. I had an eye appointment in the morning. I finally after two years of needing new glasses went and got a new prescription and fitted for contacts. My vision was worse than I thought. Just a side note: A few weeks ago I put up a backsplash in my kitchen. Its raised wallpaper that I painted. I have been on the fence of whether or not I liked it. My sister said it looked really good, but I felt like it looked like a strip of paint above my counter. Anyway the first day I had my contacts in I looked at it and realized that I haven't been able to see the grooves of the wallpaper. I like it now that I can actually see it : ). Friday night Bode got to come over and have a sleep over at my house with Grandma and Boo. He is a very creative kid, he made a castle out of paper. I was impressed with his imagination. On Saturday we drove over to Mesa to hit up some Goodwills, they are so much better on the east side of the valley. The ones near my house are not great. I found some 200 hundred dollar jeans for 15 bucks, but they were one size too small... so close. My mom left this morning and is still on the road. I am so glad she came. It was nice to not have an empty house.

 Thanks for coming down Mom!

Finch and Boo actually didn't do that bad. We like Boo.

And Bode, he found some Vampire teeth in the basket I got at the fall swap.