Very Tired Girl
When we got home, it was still quite warm outside
and she was stripped down to a diaper to chill
out for a while. It just so happened that she
fell asleep on Beth.

Well, it’s been a good and long weekend. On Saturday, we went to visit Great Grandma Lilly (from whom the Lilly in Kirstin Lilly comes) for the first time. She doesn’t leave town very often as she doesn’t like to drive distances, so she’d not yet seen Kirstin.

So a good time was had there for a few hours in the early afternoon. Some pictures were taken and much in the way of conversation took place.

After that, we finished the jaunt to Mitchell, South Dakota. Our visit with Grandma Lilly happened to be about the halfway point in a particular route to our end destination, so it worked out quite well in that regard. Anyway, we got to Mitchell and checked into our hotel room and then headed over to Tom & Becki’s house to grab something to eat and have some good old conversations. Again, much fun was had there.

So we spent our first night (the three of us) in a hotel room, which went pretty well actually. She was up once more in the middle of the night than normal, but aside from that it went pretty smoothly. That’s a Good Thing. So anyway, this morning we then went to church for Benjamin’s confirmation, after which we returned to the hotel, loaded up the car (and got changed), checked out and headed out to Tom & Becki’s house again.

We spent a good portion of the day out there, until around 3 when we left for home. It’s about a four-hour drive; perhaps just a bit longer (depends upon which way we go and stops, etc.). Kirstin was a really good passenger all weekend. The only time she really got mad was on our drive home, about an hour from home, when she got hungry and needed to be fed. Oddly enough, this sort of coincided with our hunger time, so it worked out without much delay.

We got home and have just been hanging out this evening. I gave Beth her Mother’s Day present from Kirstin and I — a dual picture frame with two custom-made pictures of Kirstin with a message. This way she’s got something to keep at the school and can always see her little girl. She liked it. 🙂

Aside from that, not much different here aside from the fact it’s been incredibly warm outside these last few days. Fortunately the lower (main) level of the house stays pretty cool when it’s closed up…so when we arrived home to a 90-degree temperature reading, it was only about 74 degrees inside.

This isn’t supposed to last long, but even if it does, I have prepped the air conditioner for use so it’s just a matter of switching the thermostat to cool mode and setting a temperature. I don’t really anticipate using that just yet, but it’s certainly there for the convenience factor.

Anyway, all that said, I’m yawning like a maniac, so I’m heading for bed. Kirstin has her two-month doctor’s appointment tomorrow, so I’m sure I’ll have a story from that to share. Until next time…