{"id":11822,"date":"2017-06-12T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=11822"},"modified":"2017-06-11T22:12:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T03:12:30","slug":"kylene-and-justins-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=11822","title":{"rendered":"Kylene and Justin’s Visit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kylene and Justin flew up for a wedding last weekend and we had the delight of getting them for a visit for a few days. \u00a0The kids had been eagerly counting down the days until their visit with great anticipation. \u00a0We picked them up from the airport on Thursday afternoon and did a little shopping (Target and Costco!) and then made supper and enjoyed catching up. \u00a0I honestly can’t remember much about that evening anymore… it’s a blur.<\/p>\n

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On Friday they decided to take the big kids on a special adventure: \u00a0rock climbing. \u00a0The kids had never been to an indoor rock climbing wall before, but they have both taken a vested interest in climbing trees so it seemed like a good fit. \u00a0In fact, after we had discussed it for a little bit on Thursday evening, Josiah suddenly came in crying with scrapes on his arms and legs… he fell out of the tree. \u00a0We were a little concerned that he might not be interested in going climbing anymore after getting hurt, but he bounced right back without hesitation. \u00a0And let me tell you, they had SUCH a good time.<\/p>\n

See that tiny person near the top? \u00a0Yup, that’s Chloe!<\/p>\n

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Here are a few more pictures of them on the wall. \u00a0They both said this was their favorite part of the weekend when I asked them later. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Later that evening we had a picnic in the basement (Pizza!) and watched “Kubo and the two strings” (per K & J suggestion) and it was very good. \u00a0The kids have since then asked to watch it again and I admit I did enjoy it more the second time since I was able to notice more details. \u00a0The kids enjoyed it equally, both times. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09 \u00a0After the kids went to bed Kylene needed to get a few more steps in so we went for a quick evening walk and discovered a pond just around the corner from our house that I never knew was there.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday morning we enjoyed sitting around and just being lazy and the kids really wanted to play some video games with Justin so we enjoyed playing some Mario Kart together. \u00a0Then before we knew it, it was time for them to get ready to get all spiffed up and head out to Sara’s Wedding for the afternoon\/evening.<\/p>\n

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Now, what will probably strike you most about this last picture is how Kylene and Justin are all fancy and the kids are in swimming suits… again… which is what brings me to the final memory of their trip.<\/p>\n

Our air conditioner broke while they were here.<\/p>\n

And it was hot. \u00a0Albeit not as hot as it was in South Carolina where they had just come from, but it was still hot. \u00a0Much too hot for comfort. \u00a0And our house doesn’t have the luxury of having any full sized trees near it to help buffer the hot sun rays beating down. \u00a0So… I will admit that poor Kylene and Justin had to listen to Tim and I complain an awful lot about how uncomfortably hot we were. \u00a0We did try and keep fans in the windows and the shades drawn–and luckily we had them sleeping in the basement so they were probably the most comfortable, but I still felt terrible. \u00a0It’s always a bummer when something big happens when you have visitors. So, hopefully that didn’t ruin their trip… \u00a0it sure didn’t affect the kids at all! \u00a0They were happy to stay in the sprinklers all day!<\/p>\n

We have replaced our old air conditioner and have been enjoying the house being ridiculously cold for the past few days. \u00a0Hehe!<\/p>\n

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Kylene and Justin flew up for a wedding last weekend and we had the delight of getting them for a visit for a few days. \u00a0The kids had been eagerly counting down the days until their visit with great anticipation. \u00a0We picked them up from the airport on Thursday afternoon and did a little shopping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11832,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11822\/revisions\/11832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}