Valentine Weekend

Last weekend was great! We were able to enjoy a visit from Chris' parents as they had some business in town. It is our tradition to celebrate Valentine's Day early, on the 13th, but Chris had an evening meeting so we had a very limited "celebration" on Friday.

Addie and I were able to visit with Grandma & Grandma Friday evening during Chris' meeting and again Saturday afternoon (Chris was again unable to attend because his Kazakh lesson was rescheduled). Saturday evening we ventured to the church for our branch Valentine's program.

What fun! There was an interactive skit and a few music performances, including a dance by the primary. I have much of the dance on video but have failed on numberless attempts to upload it to this post (hence the late post & pictures instead of video).


We had a really nice time, but were glad to get home and get into bed, it was a long day!

We said good-bye to Grandpa a few hours after church on Sunday, but we were able to visit with Grandma an extra day! It was fun to visit with her a little longer, and we especially liked that she sent us off on a lunch date! Aside from two temple trips we had before leaving the States, we haven't had anyone watch Addie for an extended period of time, so this was our first real date without our baby with us in 8 months!

We went to a really nice Uzbek restaurant that is designed to like Central Asian Islamic architecture. It was a fun atmosphere to be in. Chris took these pictures with his phone, we should have taken more to try and capture it better.