{Caitlan's Visit - Part II - Alcatraz}

While Caitlan was here she wanted to go to Alcatraz, which I was more than thrilled about because I've been wanting to go ever since we moved here!

Here we are on the boat over to the island.

Doing some light reading before touring around.

   It was a great audio tour - much better than I had anticipated. Great stories. Kinda creepy, kinda enthralling. We loved it!

To keep Evette busy, we let her have the camera and let her take pictures. She took  pictures of everything interesting - like this princess backpack.

And this random person - HAHA!

And Auntie Caitlan!

But she did take a few stunning shots of the jail - 

The medical center was very creepy. 

After the audio tour we headed over to the art exhibits there by Ai Weiwei. Beautiful work.

These were made out of legos - so awesome..

Yup - we took a picture of our picture. We had a grand time!

{What Evette says}

We've had weddings on our mind recently, with Uncle Scott and Auntie Cami getting married in May. While reading a Junie B Jones book with Sean about a wedding, their conversation went like this (boy names omitted lol):
"I want to get married to Boy1"
"Oh yeah? Boy1? He's a good one!"
"Yeah - him is super funny! Or maybe I will marry Boy2... him is funny, too"
"Yup, Boy2 is funny and nice."
"Yeah - him is the most funny. I will probably marry Boy2.....or Boy1...."
--And it starts so early.......

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Another conversation about marriage -
"What about Boy1?"
"Ummm... him is nice, but him is too loud. Him hurts my hears. I don't know who I'm going to marry yet..."

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Watching "Fantastia" about the flying whales 
"Mom! I didn't know whales could fly way up in the sky! "
"It's just for pretend - they don't really fly"
"But how?"
"Magic"
Later on... 
"Wow look, Evette! All the whales are swimming in the clouds!"
"Where Jesus?"
"Because Jesus lives in the cloud?"
"Yeah! Where him is?"
"Maybe he's in a different cloud..."
"Maybe them already passed him..."
"Yeah... Maybe."

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While we were learning about Noah's ark in the bathtub with little toy animals and a bowl boat - 
Sean - "Why doesn't the pterodactyl go in the ark?"
Evette - "Because him fly all over the place so God can't find him."

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"When Jesus pours water in the clouds it rains."

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"Please you text Boy1's mommy and make sure them coming to the park? Then I will text Boy1 and send him smile faces."

This girl cracks me up. I love this series of pictures of Evette eating a deviled egg.

{Caitlan's Visit - Part I - Holi and Temple}

Auntie Caitlan came to visit us for a just over a week this last month. It was a joy to have her! The girls were thrilled. 

The day she arrived we went to the Holi Festival.

The girls fully embraced the celebration! 

The people there were so kind and welcoming - Happy Holi! Colors everywhere and dancing and smiling and just happiness. It was so much fun.

A couple of days later we took a trip across the bay to go visit the temple.

We always love walking along the grounds there. It is so beautiful, calm, and peaceful.

{Update in pictures}