Auntie Vicky came to visit this weekend! Yay! She was originally planning to come for many days but plans changed. Late last week she was offered a job as a teacher! Yay Yay!!!! The only downside to her new job is that it cut our visit short by a few days, but Ethan and I were really glad that she was able to visit us at all. Victoria got in late on Friday night and I let her wake up Ethan to say hi. He was so excited! He immediately stood up in the bed and yelled “RAAAAAAAWWWRRR” and threw his arms around like he was a lion! And then he spun around and jumped on the bed and went crazy. It was pretty awesome. We had trouble getting him to go back to bed.

The next day we went to lunch at Panera (yum) and then we spent the rest of the day in Memphis. First we spent several hours at Mud Island. If you haven’t been to Mud Island, I highly suggest it. The park has a scale model of the Mississippi River from Cairo, IL to NOLA. It even has a “Lake Pontchartrain” and it lets out into the Gulf of Mexico. You can play in the water, so it is tons of fun for kids. Ethan had an amazing time. As he got more and more wet and his pants sagged further, we stripped him of his clothes. By the time we made it to Lake Pontchartrain, he was down to his diaper!

After we played in the water for a while, we went to the grill and ate some french fries and ice cream. We took a paddle boat ride on the Gulf of Mexico and Ethan fell asleep with all the noise of the churning water. He had a nice long nap on the boat ride and in his stroller while Victoria and I enjoyed the rest of the park. When Ethan woke up from his nap he had a big surprise. We had another visitor!

Grandma Tina came to Memphis with some of her friends. We met them at the tram for Mud Island and walked to Beale Street in search of Elvises. We stopped for coffee and ice cream at the Peabody Place mall, and after that Ethan was ready to party. We strolled over to Beale to listen to music, eat dinner, watch the flipping dudes, and high five some Elvises. It was a really long and fun day. We slept until after 10 today!!!

Here are a few of the pictures from our day. Click on any of them to go to Flickr and view all the rest I took this weekend. There are way too many to post on the blog, but they are worth looking at on Flickr.

Also, I want to say 2 weeks down, 2 more to go. We are halfway done with the APPLY board and definitely ready to head home. Work is going very well, but I’m ready for it to be done so we can go home and see Aaron. I’m also hoping to have a bit of downtime at work this week so that I can redesign the blog with the photos from our family portrait session.

OK here are the pictures from Memphis.