... that Mom and Dad came for a visit!!!

Mom and dad could not WAIT to come to Utah for the following reasons:

1. To see missionaries

2. To see Jas

3. To go to the Blick Reunion

4. To see my new house

5. To eat J Dawgs

They came up about two and a half weeks after we saw them in California to spend some time with us in Salt Lake before we all headed down to the great Blick Reunion in Blanding!!! I was so excited to show them our house, and we even bought a special sofa bed so that they could stay with us! Except mom said that our couch was more comfortable, so Dad slept on the sofa bed by himself. Technically he wasn't by himself since our sofa bed is actually in the snake room........ 

Anyway, we had a great time with them! Mom went into super-amazing-helper mode and made it her life's goal to unpack every single box and hang up every single picture that had been cluttering our house for the past five months. She followed me around the house for three days with all of our art work asking "Do you want to hang this here? What about here? What about here?" but when she was done, the house actually looked like a home and I was SO GRATEFUL. She also made sure we had plenty of food storage on hand by cooking us a gigantic vat of spaghetti sauce and homemade refried beans, and no substitute even comes CLOSE to those two dishes. She also managed to convince me that Jas was ready to move out of our closet and sleep in her big girl bed all by herself now

And we are ALL thanking her for that one! Jas loves her crib, and quickly got to the point where she didn't even really like being rocked to sleep anymore. Now she just squirms in my arms while I rock her until I lay her down in her bed and then she finally relaxes and closes her eyes. Little stinker.

Mom even visited me a couple of times at work

Mom wore this shirt to my office after I told her that one of the guys that I work with told me he didn't realize that my mom was full Chinese. No better way to set the record straight than with a graphic tee.

I posted this pic for a few reasons:

a) What is my face doing?
b) This Banana Cream French toast was just about the most amazing thing I have ever tasted and I was so grateful that mom brought me some and even more grateful that I wasn't there when I heard about the debacle that was ordering breakfast at Kneaders
c) There is no c. Ever.

I got to show mom my favorite part of West Valley:

#bobaislife

#truth

This place is right down the street from my house, and let's just say that they know me as "the Wintermelon girl." That's called winning, folks.

Before we knew it, it was time to pack up and head down to Blanding!!!