donkey tracking & our new neice!

This past weekend was AWESOME. I mean really, really fun! I don't think I have laughed as hard as I did in the last three days in a long time. Our great friends Shane and Jana came down for the weekend to enjoy some r&r. The weekend started on Friday night with dinner at Kayhans and enjoyed an awesome dinner, really fun conversations and of course everyone asking 'is she your sister?'. The very common question that we get when we are out! :)
 Saturday morning we slept in- except for Nathan who headed out for work at 6-which means I was up too, but that was ok because I got alot finished for 721 before everyone else was up! By the time he was home around 10, we were all up and getting some breakfast ready. We spent the day cooking delicious ribs on the BGE, talking, planning, watching football and just enjoying great company. We finished off the evening with a game where you had to answer a question and then guess who answered it with what answer- if that even makes sense. It was too funny! Lets just say everyone had some very interesting answers to Never lick..... and Name something that swings... TOO FUNNY!

checkin out those ribs!

adding a little more sauce!

YUMMMM!

Shane is ready...I am not sure about the rest of them!

this picture makes me laugh!

 Sunday morning we enjoy a little more sleeping in and then we watching a lecture from Suncrest...we still cant seem to find anything that matches up to our 'old' church! :) As we were discussing the lecture- I looked out the window and noticed a donkey running down the street. Yes, you are reading that correctly- a donkey!! As soon as I told everyone, Shane and Nathan ran outside making donkey noises- I am not sure if they thought it could come back to those crazy calls but needless to say it didn't work. Soo....(this is when the adventure of 'donkey tracking' starts)- we all jump in s&j SUV(a Mercedes, if I might add) and starting following the donkey. We quickly notice it running in the field in front of us so we decided to try and cut it off. Oh, I forgot to add that Nathan grabbed a dog leash so he could catch it and bring it back home! riiiiiiight- like that was going to work- but we were willing to try.

Here goes Nathan to try and get the donkey!!! 

nathan sneaking up on 'donkey' notice the dog leash in the hand!

Donkey says....catch me if you can!

Run Forest Nathan Run!!

keep running you are getting closer!!

see ya Nathan!

 Nathan decided he had had enough so he got back in the car and off we went to keep tracking the donkey!
 This is where we found him....

Yep- we are still tracking the donkey down the highway!

At this point we decided to call the police. Here was my conversation with them...
  911- Hello this is 911, what is your emergency?
me- It's not an emergency, its just that there is a donkey running down the highway!
 911- Oh- really. Well we have been out lookin' for that thing all mornin! Where abouts you at so I can send the police that way?
 me- We are on 56 headed west. Tell them to go towards Leota and they will find the donkey.
 911- Ok great thanks. Can y'all still see the donkey?
 me- Oh, yeah. Not to worry- we are trackin the donkey!!
    this is where I lost it...WHAT In THE WORLD WAS I JUST DOING!!! I told the lady I was 'tracking a donkey'!! I kind of felt like Turtle Man.
 911- Ok thank ya mama- we will send someone out that way.

We tracked the donkey for about another 15 min. and never found him again. :( Lets hope someone else did. All I can say is that was one of the funniest 30 minutes I have had in a while!!

The rest of the day was much less eventful but we continued to get many laughs out of that crazy donkey!


Onto more exciting news...on Monday Mark and Mandy welcomed a beautiful little girl, Mylee, into the world!! We could not be more excited for them! I think that is one of the reason's why it has seemed like the week has went on forever- we had to wait till this weekend to see her! :( Nathan has been gone all week so it made it impossible to make it up to see them. We have seen pictures and she looks JUST LIKE MORGAN! She is sooo cute!! We are going to get to see them all this weekend and I can not wait! :)

I will be sure to post pictures of her sweet little face next week. Tonight mom and are going to to hang out and enjoy more mom/daughter bonding time!! :)

Happy Donkey Chasing!