Friends Came to Visit!

My bestfriend, Randi and her son, Drake, who I was SOOO excited to meet got to come visit us for a long weekend (they came Friday and flew out Tuesday night). I left my house around 10:20PM to pick them up from the airport and was pulling out of the drive way and saw some antlers in the yard so I stopped and walked out to them, it was a dead deer head in our yard, I about threw up, so I ran inside to tell Ry before I headed to the airport so he would take care of it.

As I got there they were walking out, it was so great to see Randi and Drake was so happy, I couldn't believe he was so happy that late at night, just drunk on sleepiness, he was so dang cute! When we got back home we stayed up pretty late talking and catching up. I only have a couple friends that even when I don't see them for a while, sometimes a long while, we can start right where we left off, and Randi is one of them.

Saturday we had a nice slow, relaxing morning which I think we were both happy to have. Then a little before 11:00AM we headed down to ISU for the Harry Potter Muggle Magic, which was perfect for us because Randi and I both love anything Harry Potter. We were glad we were there early because we were about the fourth group in and we got to move through all the booths at a good pace which was nice with the two littles. They had different rooms with things from Harry Potter that they incorporated with the museum displays, it was very cute. The boys even got to make wands, i'm sure Drake still has gold glitter in his hair from Coop tapping him on the head with his wand. After that we went to visit my parents and then grabbed some art supplies for our Christmas craft. The boys took a long nap and we watched an entire movie together before they woke up! We had El Herradero for dinner, it was delicious as always and the boys were great. We started a movie but were both too tired to finish it, or maybe I was just too tired.

Sunday morning we had pumpkin waffles and buttermilk syrup, my favorite lately, I could probably eat it every single day and not get sick of it. Since we have such late church we hung out all morning and finished our movie. It was only my second Sunday as primary chorister so I didn't feel like I could leave early, so Randi stayed all three hours with me while Ry "went home to make brownies" for dinner at my parents' house since he prides himself on being the dessert king. When Randi and I got home, Ry said he improvised the eggs, since we were out, with cornstarch (something he read online) and the brownies looked like boiling goop. He baked them forever and they looked horrible when they came out, they were sliding all over the pan and by the time we got home from my parents they were set up as hard as concrete, it literally took me a week to clean the pan. We had yummy homemade alfredo at my parents and my family loves Randi and were so excited to be able to hang out with baby Drake.

Monday we did some unsuccessful shopping, there wasn't much we liked, and it is Pocatello. We did our Christmas craft when the boys were napping, we did white canvases with gold glitter, they all turned out SO cute. When the boys woke up from their naps we went out to Swore Farms to play at the pumpkin patch. Coop was in heaven, there were tractors, pumpkins, hay bale mazes, animals, and lots of dirt to play in. My mom met us out there since she hasn't been able to go this year and she loves going there. The boys rode together in a wagon when we walked out to the patch to find some pumpkins. We picked out a few pumpkins to buy and then decided we should head home so we could catch sunset, since it was her last night and we had missed it all the previous nights. Luckily we made it and it was a pretty good one, there weren't many clouds so it didn't have much to reflect off.

Coop was obsessed with Drake, the second he got up from bed, nap or bedtime, he would say "don't like baby Drake sleep" and when Drake fell asleep in the car he would start yelling that over and over again and then starting growling "like a dinosaur" trying to wake him up. He would tell Drake to "come here" or "come on" and had a hard time understand that he couldn't exactly play cars and dinosaurs how Coop wanted him to, he was really sweet with him and we only had a few incidents, like Coop throwing a car at his head or "beeping him" (he pokes and says beep) such an annoying thing he picked up from one of his friends; but really for the most part he was very loving with Drake and it was super sweet to see him cuddle and love him.

Tuesday came too fast, but Randi had to get home because Chad was having back surgery the next day super early in the morning. We let the boys have a chill morning before we threw them in the car for the long haul. On the way down we stopped in Layton and ate at Kneaders, which never ceases to amaze, Coop had to have a ghost cookie with his lunch, and pretty much just licked the frosting off. After our yummy lunch we headed over to Hobby Lobby, my new favorite store, I could have spent hours in there, but that's not really in the cards with a baby and a toddler. Coop hadn't napped yet and on the way to Salt Lake both boys fell asleep so we decided to swing by a cookie shop Randi introduced me to called, Ruby Snap, we got way more cookies than we should have and tasted them all. We sat in the car for a bit at City Creek to let the boys get as much shut eye as possible before we yanked them from their car seats for a little more shopping. We got some fun things at H&M and stopped at a few other stores, we watched the water show and looked at the pretty leaves. Before we left we hit up the Disney store, Coop was in heaven because they had an entire cars section. He picked out a cars figurine set and it entertained him on the way home until he fell asleep. Randi got Drake a new toy for the plane ride home and I think both boys were very happy with their new toys. We got to the airport and said our goodbyes, I kissed cute Drakes face. We had a great time and Coop definitely had "baby Drake" withdrawals. 

I called Ry on my way home to have Coop's bed converted to a toddler bed because for about a week now he has been saying "don't like Cooper's bed" we think it's because he say his friend's big boy bed. Anyway, we were a little nervous to see how it went but he was SO excited and had a perfect transition.

On our way to the Muggle Magic with our two little Harry Potters, Coop giving Drake lots of love and waiting at the platform 9 3/4.

The singing lady asking for the secret password, the mermaids (they were a little odd), the gryffidor, and the boys' favorite the wand shop.

Swore farms, it was such a beautiful day and we had so much fun.

Out in the pumpkin patch...

We found a few perfect ones!

Pure joy!

Coop is going to miss this little nugget,

and I'm really going to miss him,

and his cute Mom!

Coop enjoying his ghost cookie.

It's almost impossible to have all four of us looking at the camera.

We will take three out of four.

It was a gorgeous day, a perfect fall day!

Disney store heaven!

He's pretty pumped!

My baby is growing up!!!