Fun with the Swedes and Cousins

Last week we were lucky enough to have one of Doug's companions and his sweet wife visit us all the way from Sweden!  It was such a fun couple of days and we wished we could have spent more time with them!  The first day they were here we went up to Salt Lake to tour the conference center (never done that before, it was awesome) and temple square.  After that we headed to city creek for a little window shopping and a delicious lunch at Cheesecake Factory.  I think the restaurant did it's job at being completely overwhelming to them.  After lunch we headed to the church history museum.  It was fun to be there because they had the annual art competition going on and it was awesome to see all of that amazing art!  The girls had fun playing in the kid are feeding the missionaries.

 Here's Mabel showing me what was for dinner.

Here's Lilly with her tower.

After that we came home and relaxed and chatted for awhile.  We fed them some yummy Gandolfo's sandwiches that night and they laughed at us for being lazy Americans and driving to church every Sunday because it so far away and hard to get to at 12:30.  It was funny and true!  We also pigged out on Doritos, Hershey's chocolate and PB M&M's (we had to show them how American's really eat) and had a good time. 

The next day we headed up to Provo to show them the temple(s) and MTC and BYU campus.  We shopped at the bookstore for a little while and then took them to DI (best place in Provo and tourist destination for sure!).  Then we went to Brick Oven for lunch (we made sure to tell them the way we'd been eating the past few days was not normal). 

(Cute random picture of Mabel)

 After lunch we went up to Bridal Veil Falls for some wading and picture taking.

 Mabel debated if she should dip her toes in or not.

Doug and the Swedes were brave enough to venture up the falls further but the kids and I were happy to watch from below.

Lilly was brave enough to get in the water but not me!  It was too cold!

After that we came home and picked up Sophia and then headed up Payson canyon to show them the Grotto.  It was pretty fun.  Jonatan is quite the photographer and was nice enough to take a family photo for us.

They were supposed to leave that night to pick up a cousin from the airport but the flight was delayed so we were lucky to have them stay another night!  Here's Doug and Jonatan (Aldste Nilsson) before they left the next morning.

 And all 4 of us (please ignore my eyes!  I promise I'd gotten plenty of sleep!)

We were sad to see them go but wished them well on the rest of their adventures in the states. 

Later that day we headed down to Wales for conference. It was fun but there were spooky things like these huge spiders!  These pictures do not do these guys justice. They're seriously huge!

Here's Sophia and Bridger with their cute puppets they made out of paper bowls down there.  They're pretty creative!

 Here's Lilly and Carson.

After we got home on Sunday we sent the girls to bed only to have them come up a few minutes later looking like this! Sophia said she was just practicing for Halloween.

 We were not totally happy but couldn't be mad at these cute faces!

Also when we got home, Sophia quickly picked us these gorgeous flowers.  I love how she decorated our table with them.  She's the best!