The Girls Visit...

About an hour after I finished the last day of my temporary job, 3 of Micah's sisters drove in. Cassandra just came home from her mission last month and with Sammy and Savannah did a big road trip to see lots of her long missed family and friends. We had a lot of fun with them, and unfortunately, Cassandra too pics the whole time and so I didn't really and therefore have no proof of our late October campout in the mountains! We woke up to ice all over the car and chairs and on the tent a bit, too. What an adventure! We only stayed one night, but that was plenty of adventure for all of us. Micah very much encouraged one of his sister's fears by telling her about Roswell and alien abductions and about the wildlife there in the mountains. It didn't help either that there was NO ONE else around. On the way home, there was a shorter route marked on the atlas, so we took that. Well, it soon turned into this windy dirt road that led up to the peak of one of the mountains. The big problem was that storms had washed over the dirt roads in a lot of parts and carried big rocks and left them in the middle of the roads, and washed out the dirt itself, too. Not really good for a VERY tightly packed car, with all seats full. (the girls were good sports as Micah continued to find air pockets and fill them with more blankets and more coats and laneterns (we sure were grateful later at least for all the goods!)
We went on base, got a great view of the sunset at the temple, watched WALL-E at the theater, played dirty marbles....lots, went to the Sandia Peak for a picnic, carved pumpkins and had fun having sleepovers and hanging out and having family around!






Early Monday morning, we all left Micah high and dry! I drove for the next 2 days with them so they'd have another driver as we went from Abq and they dropped me off in Chicago at the airport Tues afternoon (after a picnic at the temple) before they continued on the last few hours home.