Leah, one of my awesome friends from my Rexburg days came to visit us for a few days last week. She is now working as a traveling nurse and is currently in Dallas. Because she's so 'close' we had her come over Memorial Day weekend. It was so fun to have a visitor, to spend time with a good friend, and to have a little taste of home. We tried to show her some of the fun things about the Valley and it was nice just to visit too.
We took her to the new Pharr water park, but unfortunately her shorts had a button so she couldn't get in the water. We still went in and had a fun time! Kayla is really starting to warm up to the splash pads and she's getting more fun in the water.
On Saturday afternoon, Brett was working, so Leah and I hit up the outlet malls and we took her on a tour of Brett's studio. On Sunday we just hung out. Brett works every Sunday and has to leave church after Sacrament meeting. I had to teach the young women so it was great to have Leah there to watch Kayla while I taught. On Monday, we did some more shopping and hung out some more. We had fun cooking and eating lots of yummy food. We also enjoyed eating out on the patio. It was probably one of the last times we'll be eating out there until summer is over. Its already getting blazing hot.
Leah loved our hammock! That hammock is my favorite spot here. Again, its almost getting too hot to enjoy it though.
On Tuesday, we took Leah to the Rio Grande and out to our favorite Mexican restaurant. We had fun at the little park by the river. After lunch, Brett headed to work and us girls hit up our pool. We had fun relaxing in the water. Its nice how warm the pool water is here since it never gets cold at night.
On Wednesday, we took a trip to the Island. We had lunch at one of our favorite sea food places, Dirty Al's. We took Leah to the Sea Turtle Refuge and Kayla loved it! She kept saying "Fishy" over and over again. Since then, we've been working on saying turtle. :)
We headed to the beach and when we arrived a storm was rolling in. We ended up only staying on the beach for 30 minutes or so. While we were there, Kayla found some friends!
Look at those dark clouds!
Leah decided that since the storm was mostly inland rather than over the water, that she would head out to the water to watch the storm. Brett and I took Kayla up to the pavilion to wait out the storm. Leah looked so lonely out there in water but she said she really enjoyed herself, haha! She said we couldn't have picked a better day to take her to the beach, since she doesn't really like the sun or heat. We figured out pretty soon that the storm wasn't going to blow over, we headed home in the craziest storm! I wrote a bit more about it in an earlier blog post.
When the freeway became too dangerous to drive on, we got off and stopped in at the station to see if they needed Brett's help with the weather. While he was inside, Kayla, Leah and I had a little dance party in the car. She loves dancing to music so much, but put her in the front seat and its a whole new world for her!
There was a great rainbow afterwards. We made it home safe, but some of our flowers were pretty well drowned. Southern storms are sure crazy! We loved having Leah here and we hope she gets stationed close to us again for work.
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