Christina and Brandon came to visit!

Seeing that we have had very few visits from our southern-located families to our nice state of Minnesota, it was very nice to have Christina, my sister-in-law, and her husband, Brandon visit us this past weekend! They came just to see us (mostly Madelyn)! They didn't even have an overt reason to do this, they just came! It was such a nice visit too, depending on how you look at it. We had a great time together but they came on the hottest weekend we've had in 11 years! It was close to or above 100 degrees the whole time! They are from Dallas, so they thought they would be getting away from the hot when they came up here. Little did they know that it would hotter up here than in Dallas while they were here. Crazy.... I told them they needed to come back in the middle of the winter and bring some of that warmer weather with them then. In any case, we did get out and see some sights - the Minneaoplis Institute of Art and the Cathedral of Saint Paul. We also were able to have a night on the town - all-you-can-eat sushi at Ichiban and then to comedy show called Triple Espresso. Very fun! Otherwise, we just did our best to stay rested (to combat our late night gabbing) and cool (to combat the unprecedented weather) while we were visiting. The picture above is of Christina and Brandon at the sushi bar. You can see the all-you-can-eat plates stacked up on the right side of the picture. The way it works is there is a circular bar where they have a "river" of water between you and the sushi chefs. In the river are little boats and they fill the boats with little plates of sushi and then the boats float along around the bar until someone picks them up, usually less than a minute or so because it is so good!). We had a great time!

We all had a good time playing with Madelyn too. It was very cute to hear her say "Ni-Nina" and "Bandon". On the last day that Christina and Brandon were here, we went down to Grande Avenue and had dinner and then ice cream. These pictures are from that outing.

And then here is just a cute picture of Christina and Madelyn hanging out before bed.

Thanks y'all for taking the time and money to see us! We love you and loved your visit! Come again when you can! And to everyone else, please come see us!