A Day In The Life - 10/24: Sahuarita for Church

It was a dark and storm - wait. It was a beautiful Sunday morning. The temperature was perfect as we drove from Mesa past Tucson to Sahuarita near the Santa Rita mountains where Ben and Jenn reside with their family. The occasion? The kids were involved in the Primary program during church so we took the opportunity to fore go our own church meetings in order to attend with Ben and Jenn. Unfortunately, after church, the kids were in no mood to be photographed. Grace is hiding behind the group, Noah is hiding behind his hand and Emma is thinking of something else. And, of course, Oma is trying to get everyone to cooperate, which wasn't working.

Pictures at home worked much better, however. It is amazing how cooperative kids get when you give them food. Oma gets that way, too.
Notice that Emma's dress has sparklies all over it. A few come off everywhere she sits and so it was fun to trail everywhere she had been, even in our car since she got to ride home from church with us.

Jenn LOVES to decorate. She is a wonder with desserts. But that is not where it ends, either. Her home is always having some treatment that was not there last time - a wall with new color, a family saying on the wall, and, of course, decorations galore for whatever holiday is coming up. This one is Halloween and so there are pumpkins everywhere, spiders and spider webs and lots of orange and black ornaments everywhere. It is very fun to see all of the things that she does to her home every time that we visit.
Ben is not sitting back and watching, either. He is involved in Jenn's projects as well as doing other things like adding new features to the kids castle in the playroom such as a flag, new paint and battlements at the top so they could better fight off the dragons.

As we traveled down for our visit, Gaye mentioned that she would like to stop and check out the cotton fields in Marana on our way home. So we made the stop. She got to see live cotton for the first time. I don't know how that works. She says she grew up in the south. How can you grow up in the south and never see cotton? Any way, she has seen it now. She got some close up photos of the cotton bulbs opening so that she could show her class what it looks like.
I was a very fun day and we were tired when we finally got home.