Family Visits

Sometimes it's hard living so far away from family. Most of Jake's family is close, which is nice, and we hang out all the time. But seeing my family is a little more challenging. That's why I was so excited when my grandparents told me they were coming to visit! They drove down from Utah last week, all the way to Tucson to visit my cousin Amber and her family. I hadn't seen Amber in years, and she had never met Jake so we decided to head down there for the weekend. It was so much fun! Jake had an awesome time playing with their two kids, Jack and Jali, and it was nice to be able to catch up with my cousin. We also walked around their club house which is INSANE. They have a water park, swimming pools, an enormous gym, tennis and basketball courts, day care centers, pretty much everything awesome. It would have been a perfect trip if our car hadn't been so ridiculous. Seriously, we have the worst luck with cars. So on Saturday night Jake discovered that our battery was dead. So the guys jump started and all was well. But the next morning they had to charge it two or three more times. So we took it to the dealership the next day and they couldn't find anything wrong with it. They just said the lights were left on, which doesn't make sense because our lights turn off automatically, and we would have noticed if they had been on. But oh well. It's worked fine ever since so that's a relief!

My grandparents visited us again here in Mesa yesterday. I helped them find their hotel in Chandler, and we went to the mall to pick up some things. It was pretty hilarious. My grandma bought us a wooden spoon and nut cracker (they gave us a bag full of pecans to crack), then they took Jake and I out to eat at Marie Callenders. Mmm!
So that's that! We probably won't see any of my family for awhile. I want to make it up to Utah before we head out to California for the summer, hopefully in time for my sisters graduation!

Our Entertainment

I think it's funny that half of our posts are about our pets. But since we don't have any kids, they are pretty much the only thing we have to blog about. I just wanted to share these, thought they were pretty funny. Whenever Jake sits down to do homework, Jitters is always there to give him kisses. And then she'll either stand there in his face so he can't see anything, or she'll lay down right under his chin so he can barely move. She is the cutest thing ever! And then Jake managed to get a video of the cat that climbs our wall almost everyday now.

Oh, and they did finally split our primary class. One of the boys, Tanner, he loves Jake so much! If Jake is out of the room for two seconds Tanner will be like, "Hey where's Rucker?" So cute! Well Tanner got put into the other class, but he didn't want to go so Jake had to carry him there and he was crying the whole time. It was so sad! Now we only have 4 kids in our class. We'll have to plan our lessons better now, since we won't need to spend half of the class just trying to keep them quiet!