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My parents invited us over for Sunday dinner yesterday so we made our way out to Freakin Eagle Mountain, which even without traffic felt like a long drive. I realized I hadn't been out there since Father's Day in June, that's crazy!


This is what we saw as soon as we got out of the car. It was funny to us because 1. now that Robyn and Jared have moved out my dad has reclaimed the 3rd garage space for his beloved tractor and 2. the cat looked like he could not be more content.


The next funny thing was this note written by my dad which was hung so high up on the door that any smaller person (i.e., my mom) wouldn't have even noticed it. It says "P.U. Manure" which is funny for the P.U. itself, but really means pick up manure. Parental quirks can be enjoyable.


As soon as we entered the house we saw my mom carrying a plate of peanut butter and cheese crackers for Andrew. This is one of his diet staples (he's incredibly picky, we don't really know how he survives).


Whitney brought her creepy white tiger (those eyes, seriously!) since she would be staying the night.


The porch table was all set for dinner, we love eating out there!


This new post-it note of my mom's just cracked me up. They recently got rid of their normal
phone service for a new, cheaper plan (they just use their cell phones) but need to have a house phone for when babysitters are there. Doesn't it feel like we're going backwards on phone call pricing sometimes?

Freshly baked rolls are always a happy sight to see!

After a long, relaxing dinner and conversation time we went outside to see my mom and the kids feed the chickens (what the?) and hunt for eggs. It's so crazy that my parents now have 6 chickens!


They let them roam the yard, but that means the chickens hide their eggs from them. Landon and Whitney helped with the search, but they still only found 1 egg!

No one who has ever known my dad would have imagined he would have 2 goats, 6 chickens and 2 cats! Granted, he's not hanging out, petting any of them, but still.

One of the cats was rubbing all over me while I stood on the deck taking pictures. I love the feel of a cat's tongue licking my feet, who knew?


I was quite taken with these flowers growing on the deck (I don't know what they're called) and had a little photo shoot with them.


I love taking picture of flowers from down low, it's such a cool perspective to me.

We didn't leave until after it was dark outside (which was surprising to me because I didn't think we'd stay so late) and when I backed out of the driveway I went the opposite direction of home. I just wanted to drive around the neighborhood a bit and pass by Amie's house just because. As we drove by Amie's we saw them sitting in lawn chairs in the driveway, so of course we had to back-up and go visit. Landon was thrilled to have some time to play with James, and they immediately took off as if they'd had an agenda all along. Amie stood at my car window talking to Randy and I and ended up causing me to laugh so hard I peed! If you're ever around her, ask her to tell you the story of Jessica's blind cat.

**Do you like the feel of a cat's tongue?
Are you ever taken with the flowers?
Have you ever hunted for real eggs?
Do your parents have quirks?
Do you think the tiger's eyes are creepy?**

Comment Window Tidbit: I have been out of cotton balls for almost 2 weeks! I use them every day to remove mascara from under my eyes, so this has been a pain. How hard is it to go buy cotton balls?? Apparently too hard. I even went to Target the other day with those in mind, but still managed to forget them!