Hangin' with the Fam…

We Mesan's went to spend some time with our Piman relatives in the beautiful Gila Valley. Nothing tribal about us. The cotton is growing, the hay has been cut and it is a pleasure to go take in the countryside and enjoy looking at the crops all neat in their rows. Farmland has a beauty all its own. Robert, Grumpy and I had lots of fun driving around the countryside, eating here and there, playing with the kids at the park in Thatcher and so on. Well, the kids played while we watched. Jade, Jeff and Robert went to see Tropic Thunder and said it was a bust. I don't think they even want to buy the DVD for their collections. We ate at Tony's Kitchen for lunch on Saturday and I of course had to get my favorite there, Grecko Fettucini. It is really good. Basically, fettucini with green chiles and mushrooms added. Yum. We went to dinner at Golden Corral with Heber and Kay, Jeff, Jade and the boys. We sat down before we went through the line there too! We are just rebels I guess. (check out my blog for the birthday bash story.) We went back there for breakfast the next day and had a really good time. The boys love to eat there because they can serve themselves exactly what they want. We ended up at the Thatcher play park again after breakfast and I'm kicking myself that I didn't get my camera out. That was the best. The boys played on the equipment and ended up racing each other to the water fountains and back. I guess the water fountains weren't working so they got pretty thirsty. One time Jeff got them all started racing for the building and after they were halfway across the field, he took off running after them. It was so fun to watch them all running, laughing and no one really winning. He kept grabbing them and putting them on the ground on the way back so he could win. We got cleaned up and went to church with them later on. It was a nice sacrament meeting and I love to visit with other ward members. Nice people are everywhere. Good weekend times. Thanks to Heber and Kay for spending their Saturday night with us and to Heber for dinner. Thanks to Susan and Don for letting us crash at their house overnight. Thanks to Robert for coming with us and making our weekend even more fun. Thanks to Jeff for letting us steal Jade and Aden away Sunday so we could get some things done here. A huge thanks to Jade for doing my hair while she was here. She and I went shopping for beauty stuff and I look much better now. She is so good to keep us all looking our best. Quite the rainstorm on the way home from taking Jade and Aden to meet Jeff in Miami to give them back. I was pretty white-knuckled for a while in those very wet, stormy mountain passes. Glad for the rain though. Rain is good. Great time guys. Love you all.