Visit from the Torres Family

January 13th - January 15th

Friday, January 13th, the Torres family came for a visit. They encountered some Friday the 13th luck with their minivan - it stalled 2 stop signs from our house. Thankfully, they crept along and made it to the house. Charles and Matt took it to Auto Zone , and LeAnna, Patrick, William and I stayed at the house. Patrick was hungry for Pop-Tarts, and when he said that he was hungry - he was hungry! He ate the first package and then asked for another. When he had eaten it, he wanted more, so a quick trip to Kroger later, and we were in business! Charles and Matt got back home just in time for a little play time and for Charles to read Patrick a bedtime book (or 2).

The next morning, Charles and Matt took the minivan in for tests, and Patrick and I had the best time playing!

We invented a new game...Monkey Moves!

where we each threw a monkey to each other at the same time...

while making the monkeys perform tricks in the air!

I pulled out our Smurf figures, and we also imagined a whole Smurf village! It was lots of fun!!

Charles and Matt got back and brought donuts for breakfast! After breakfast and a little photo-op, we played hide and seek with Patrick.

We then headed to the Memphis Children's Museum. We had a great time watching Patrick shop

at Kroger...

Charles helped with the check out part...

He put all the lessons he learned from helping me through our Kroger's self-checkout line to good use!

While Patrick was busy shopping, William had found a place to perform!

We found him dancing on the Orpheum stage and having the best time!

We all were his audience for a while...

We then moved to the rock climbing wall...

Patrick scaled all the way to the top in NO time!

Charles helped William get in some wall climbing...

The boys had a blast with the rock climbing wall!

While Matt, Charles and Patrick took in more fun things in the Children's Museum, LeAnna, William and I went to the toddler area so that William could play...

We watched future b-ball stars...

while William had the best time with the bus! He loved driving it and sliding down the slide on its side.

It was time to leave the museum, but before we left, Patrick played with the bean bag toss...

He did great! Charles decided to take a turn too!

That evening, after watching the Saints game, Matt, Charles and Patrick headed to the park to play a little tennis.

The next morning, Patrick and I played some more Smurf village...

When I started singing La la la la la la la la la la laaa, Patrick told me I sung the song wrong. He then sung the movie version of La la la la la la Sing a happy song and made me sing it that way too.

We had a great time playing and using our imaginations!

We had such a fun visit - despite the minivan ordeal! Thankfully, the Torres family made it home without any problems.