.RONNIE visits 2013.

.my sister ronnie came to visit.

.we LOVED it.

.we shopped. we laughed. we peed our pants. we shopped. we ran. we were sore. we spent money. we ate. we painted. we stayed up late. we just had a total blast.

.i am sad she is gone. but i have things i need to get done around the house. and the next 3 weeks are going to be craZy but fun, and exciting. there should be some fun posts comin. but for now, your going to laugh your way through this post and see how much fun we had.

.so i picked up my sister on tuesday november 5th. she texted me in the morning saying hopefully she will make her connecting flight because leaving salt lake they had some problems. apparently they had to de-ice the plane...they sprayed it on the wrong part of the plane, so it was coming in through the vents, so they all had to get off the plane, wait for it to clear and get back on. thankfully, she made it, and we picked her up around 2. 

.we made a mandatory stop at see's candies. and loaded up on chocolatey deliciousness. than we made another mandatory stop at great harvest bread for a FREE loaf of bread (yea, i get coupons every month for something free for our real estate agent...fantastic). than we came home and showed ronnie our house.

.wednesday and thursday we shopped till we dropped, and ronnie helped me finish my armoire and dresser. i am SO stoked with how it turned out. seriously LOVE LOVE LOVE it. and now not sure where to put it :) i originally was going to put it in brooklynn's room, but didnt want to make it too packed, and when it turned out so fantastic, i wanted it in my downstairs to show off. :)

.friday we went the gymnastic's place to let the kids run, and jump, and get all their energy out. than we met andrew up for lunch and to show ronnie where andrew works. she didnt get to walk the 1.5 mile building, but she got the idea. friday evening we went to find out our outfits for our mud run. we watched t.v. ate tons of junk food because we knew we were going to run it off the next day. one of the MUST HAVE junk foods were magic bars...sooooo goood. yum. i might have to go make some right now.

.saturday. we woke up. suited up in our outfits. had andrew drop us off. and walked out in public in our full-suited-one piece-footed batman pajamas. it was epic. we ended up running the 6K (4 miles) in 1 hour and 19 minutes....NOW, BEFORE you judge, let me tell you WHAT we had to do at all obstacles, and why it took so long. ALSO, i did NOT run at all before this...the last time i ran was back with my mother in law in june when we went to visit. . . so i was TOTALLY happy with the time, and my sister was pretty impressed with how i did (she runs all the time). If you havent read my post about our gladiator run, HERE is the link. enjoy.

.sunday we had church. thank goodness we are so much alike, and she fit right into my clothes for church. we came home, ate dinner, watched family home videos. laughed, and facetimed with the grandparents. we worked on a few christmas projects and headed to bed.

.monday we slept in, ran some errands, picked up andrew for lunch. got fries and shakes for lunch. headed home to put kids down for a nap. napped ourselves. waited for andrew to get home from work, took ronnie to rudy's for some good texas bbq. headed to the riverwalk for an evening stroll. stopped at burger king for .50 cent ice cream cones. came home and headed to bed.

.tuesday we woke up and had to drop off ronnie in the am.

.we had a blast. every morning b would ask to go down and see ronnie and she still does. i have to remind her that she went on an airplane to go back home to utah. but we will see here in 5.5 short weeks. i cannot believe christmas is THAT close. thanks ronnie for coming and seeing us! We loved every minute of it. i guess it will be our turn to come see you next summer :)

Thanks Ronnie. See you in 40 days...not that I'm counting.