FIFTEEN

Sharing Goldfish and Raisins and keeping their toes out of the sand.

 2015 week fifteen

We spent a few days in Arizona with bosom friends.

They lovingly fought over the rights to this cozy chair. And V claimed every one of Stella's stuffed animals.

Sharing is easiest when it is food. 

Two of my dearest college roommates. I think a trip to Arizona should be an annual thing, don't you guys?

One photo of us all together before we ate ourselves happily sick on perfect Barros Pizza. 

"Animal" reads V a book. When we were driving back to Nicole's house, V kept pointing to the back where Amy was sitting and whispering to Lauren, "Animal. She's in the car! In the car!"  She loved listening to this book though. And kept telling us that she was "so shy" and that she needed to "hold on tight" so she wouldn't fall. We were crying from laughter.

Yzma has been limping pretty badly for the last few days so she spends most of her time lying around like this. In this sweet moment V decided to cover her with a blanket and snuggle up her baby, instead of trying to lie on Yzma herself.  Because of her limp, she has taken to sleeping under the compost tarp instead of jumping up behind the rain barrel. And this has made for a very smelly cat as of late. Compost cat.

Monday night V and I flew to Arizona to spend a few days with two of my very dear college roommates. Sadly Spirit only flies between Dallas and Phoenix one a day. At 1130 pm. And they only fly from Phoenix to Dallas once a day. At 1 am. Remembering this is giving me anxiety. As we were driving to the airport Matthew said, "Get ready for a miserable four hours." And from the back seat a little groggy bug said, "yeeeeeeeeaaaaah." But even though the flights were pretty fairly as bad as you'd expect at those times, it was so worth it to talk myself nonsensical for three days. It took about that much time to recover as well. :) And though I obviously had a perfect time visiting with two girls I love so much, Vera had a great time as well. She loved having access to all of Stella's toys and a toddler to run around with the whole time. She commandeered a few of Stella's stuffed animals and claimed them as her own. One day Vera and Stella stayed with Nicole's mom so we could go to the temple and that just sealed the deal for her. They played in the pool and played with bubbles and ate more candy and chicken nuggets than they could handle. :) For the rest of the day, and several days after she could not stop talking about "Paco" (their dog) and "bubbles!" and having "so much fun." One way I can get her to take naps is to tell her about the fun things we will do when she wakes up from a rest, "Go to the store" "Go to the park" "Have a snack." When we were driving back and I was prepping her to take a nap, she said, "Have a rest and wake up and have a Paco. So much fun."

It was hard to say goodbye, I could have visited for another 3 days at least, but we had such a great time. We ate so much good food, and not even throwing up in the parking lot beforehand could keep me from it. I'm still dreaming about that tortilla soup. It was really a perfect visit. Thank you so much friends.