Mindy's visit

My sister, Mindy, came to visit us this last weekend. It was SO FUN! I just loved having her over. Hanging out and chatting together was so enjoyable. It only gets THAT fun when it's a SISTER. :) It was so sweet of her to use her vacation days at work to fly out and visit us. She is expecting her first baby and it was really fun for me to see her pregnant. She is the most adorable pregnant lady I've ever seen.

Mindy slept in the front room every night. The first morning after she arrived I was up feeding Eliza and heard Benny's feet scamper out of his room and down the hall. Then I heard them stop when he reached the front room. There was a very long pause. Then he came to Eliza's room and slowly opened the door. He stood there and said to me, in a very serious tone, "Mom, come with me." I asked him why, but he kept saying, "Mom, come with me." Finally I said, "What do you want to show me?" and he said, "There's a lady sleeping in our front room." Isn't that funny?! As if some strange woman had come and camped out in our living room during the night! I told him it was Aunt Mindy and he was like, "Ohhhhh..." and then he asked if he could go lay down by her. :) Luckily he wasn't too worried about the new lady sleeping in the house.

The first day she came, we went blueberry picking at a U-pick farm nearby. It was super fun. We only picked for maybe 45 minutes, and we couldhave kept going and going, but we weren't sure what we would do with any more berries! :)
Mindy brought a book for Eliza (her first My Little Pony book), and Lady & the Tramp pop-up book for Benjamin. She read them both to Benny about 25 times, and many other books too. Benjamin was constantly asking her to come into his room with him to play or read him some books. Boy, he enjoyed his weekend with his Aunt Mindy!






Mindy hadn't seen High School Musical yet, and since it is Benjamin's and my favorite, we had her watch it with us one evening. Here's Benny dancing along to the music... in his underwear. :)

On Friday we took Mindy to the park nearby where there is a big water fountain for kids to play in. It was a little windy that day, so we headed to the playscape at the park later on, where Mindy and I both made ourselves sick by spinning around on the tire swing with Benjamin. (Honestly, I thought I would be sick all day after that.)

Benjamin and Eliza both really enjoyed their Aunt Mindy. Aren't these pictures cute that Mindy took of them? Eliza is wearing the little dress that Mindy gave her when she was born. :)