Ellen came to town!

Reading Bonny's remark about the obligatory photo reminded me that...

Yesterday Theo and Ida and I went to visit Ellen Frederickson! She was in a nearby town visiting her Frederickson cousins, who are in our stake, and we went to say hi and hang out at the park with smoothies. My kids were in complete disarray by the time I made it over (late afternoon/early evening) and Ellen probably thinks I'm a crazy person since I doubt very many coherent sentences came out of my mouth as I tried to keep my kids calm, feed them, and find all about cute Ellen and her life. And let's not forget Theo's brush with death as I caught him a few feet into his adventure on top of a ten-foot-tall wall, walking tightrope style. Clearly only the very safest playgrounds have ten-foot-tall walls accessible to two-year-olds. And clearly it was the playground's fault, not mine...

I hadn't seen Ellen in six years (we are pretty sure the last time we met was at the Clayton reunion just before Matt and I got engaged) and I am pleased to report that she is absolutely adorable, charming, beautiful, smart, and very fun. Also she was very helpful with the kids. She tried valiantly to cheer tantruming Theo up, ultimately succeeding with fish faces.

If you haven't guessed by now...I completely forgot to take a picture.

But I promise we were there! It was fun and we're going to do it again when she visits next year!