Hometown Fun

We haven't even been gone a year and I feel like "home" has changed so much. With so many new buildings and restaurants and parks it seems like a different city. It's been lots of fun reminiscing and of course getting my Mexican food fix!

I'm so glad we got to make it out to Wyoming so the Lewis clan could meet BB for the first time. It was at grandma's house that she finally warmed up to animals...in fact she has become completely obsessed. 

Any time the puppy dog moved....so did BB. 

Poor Ginger made the mistake of letting BB get real close and even pet her a few times, there was no getting that child to leave the puppy alone. I am impressed at how well she was with Ginger, she was very gentle and never tried to pull her tail or smack her. She was even brave enough to give her a kiss!

 We got to explore some of the nature around Lander, WY. One of the fun places to go is Sinks Canyon.

 It took quite a while, but BB finally started getting used to grandpa.

 I think he liked showing her the fish just as much as she liked feeding them

 It's pretty neat to see the pond where all the fish live. It gets filled up with water through the "sink" and looks very calm in one area, and then rushes down the mountain.

BB has started to enjoy patting people on the head and playing with their hair. It makes for a nice little head massage!

 Mummy and BB checking out the top portion of the Sink.

 We had a great time in Wyoming, though it was a very short trip. We are thankful that we got to visit family, and sad that we couldn't visit everyone we wanted to. Perhaps on our migration back to the US for good we'll have to arrange some more meetings.

It was very hot in Wyoming, which is not normal at all. Of course we only brought our cold winter stuff on that portion of the trip, but grandpa loaned BB his hat. She's pretty good at the gangster stare.

Even though we can get "American Streaky Bacon" at Costco, we had to cook up some bacon while here. It's much thinner than I am used to and the first batch may have gotten a tad crispier than intended. But BB thought it was delicious.

I tried to explain that we still had another week before we were going back home, but BB insisted on trying to pack our bags. She may have tried packing herself a couple times. 

My little diva. I have a feeling she is going to be asking for lots of purses, bags and shoes when she starts talking. 

My parents have kept many of our old wooden toys and books so we pulled out the boxes and had a play. It was neat to see BB playing with the same puzzles and trains that I remember playing with as a kid. It will be nice when we are back for good so she can play with them a lot more!

We decided to try a new restaurant for dinner when everyone was out to visit so we stopped in to Harumi for some sushi. It was amazing! The chef made BB a delicious little tray with tempura yellow fin, crab, cucumber and a ball of their signature purple rice. She loved it.

The rolls I got were delicious too, and so pretty! I am seriously in love with the purple rice. I wish we had known about this place when we still lived there. If you're in the downtown phoenix area, definitely stop in. 

Even though it was warm most of the time we did spend some time enjoying nature. 

Which mostly involved picking the leaves off of plants and giving them to mommy. 

As we got ready to leave for the main event, my good friend's wedding, I was putting on my earrings so BB took an earring, walked up to the mirror and proceeded to "try it on". It amazes me how much they are like little sponges and copy everything you do, even without direction. 

She looked very pretty in her new dress. Though no where near as pretty as the bride!

BB's obsession with patting animals continued with the cats at grandpa's house. I'm a little thankful we don't have a cat or dog for her to constantly want me to help her pat. Hopefully by the time we get back to our puppy dogs she will be confident enough to pat them and look at them without sitting on my lap.

We were SO happy to have gotten to have a couple play dates with this cute girl and her family. I wish we lived close so they could play all the time! We were lucky to get to visit with many of our friends and we loved seeing them all. We really miss everyone and look forward to our next visit.