A blast from the past

Back in my babysitting days I LOVED to babysit for the Howell family. He was my bishop and they had Ben, Jenny, Andy, and Aly. I think I even started to babysit for them when I was 8 years old (just for short periods of time when my mom was home 2 houses away). Well now 25 years later Aly came to visit me! Her family still lives 2 houses away from my parents. She is soooooooooo darn cute and it was so fun to get to know her as an adult. She just needed a get away before she goes back to school and soon she will go on her mission. I can't wait to see where she will go...maybe FLORIDA! We would be so lucky!

So we had a great time. We went on the Winter Park boat tour, the beach, to Rock Springs to ride the tubes down the river, miniature golfing, and to my friends pool. She also got to go to institute (a religion class for the single adults), the singles ward, and to Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure with one of the single adults that she met here. Oh and we can't forget the So You Think You Can Dance party that we had to watch the finale. Morgan, Kim's husband, was even in town for that and then got to go to the beach with us the next day. My kids were so sad to see Aly leave, as was I! Last night Emma cried and also said it wasn't fair that she didn't get to spend yesterday with her (that's when Aly went to Universal). She definitely made a great impact on my kids.

Thanks Aly for a FUN time!

This is the cool crab that the kids caught at the beach!

Gavin fell asleep in my arms at the beach and so we made this little tent and he had quite the relaxing nap! I was jealous!