West Virginia Fun

 My grandparents were so kind (and brave) to let us use their minivan to travel to WV over Thanksgiving. We fit, sortof, in our Accord, but that would have been a looong trip! We figured out what a cassette tape deck is good for--as long as you have a small iphone case.

Karen worked Thursday night so we spent some time at Joel and Brandi's house on Friday so she could sleep. It was so fun to see their new house. They commented that it was the most their whole house had been used at one time. Haha. There is no containing our family in one room! Brandi got some cuddles from Anna.

 There was a day of warmish weather. Josiah spent some time outside. He drew roads with chalk on the driveway.

 He played hopscotch. He also tried out skateboarding! And he helped Grandma trim some bushes.

 Aliza gave Grandma a narrated tour of the American Girl catalog.

 Anna started calling Joel "man" while we were at their house. She called him all the time. "Man, come." "Man, sit." "Where Man?" And as soon as she woke up she was calling for "Man" and saying "Hi Man."

 Brandi and I had our first ever chance for sister time. It did my heart good to have a hot drink and a long talk. We got to walk around a few stores which was fun too!

 The ipad. I was ready to throw that thing out the window. Anna was constantly asking for the "ah pahd." If Anna didn't have it, Aliza did.

 Aliza was obsessed with a My Little Pony game where you set up a city and then take care of it to earn coins to buy more things to build up the city. The game occurs in real time so it is slooow. She explained that game in detail to Brandi (who patiently listened and even asked intelligent questions). Jeremy finally hacked the game to speed up the process.

Grandpa said our visit was too short. We'll visit again soon!