A couple of months ago, we got a call out of the blue from my Uncle Mike and Aunt Pat.   They were taking a trip out to our area (to see Chicago and then Nauvoo) and wanted to know if they could stay with us for a couple of days!  We were excited for visitors and we were looking forward to this.  I hadn’t seen them for probably 12 years or so!  🙁  They came on Saturday afternoon the 9th, and we spent that evening talking and having them get to know the kids.  Sarah remembered them a little but that was it.  Brittany would have been too young the last time we visited with them.

They came to church with us on Sunday and they felt very at home.  Aunt Pat even got a cookbook from the Relief Society!  🙂  After church and lunch, we left the kids to relax and took Mike and Pat up to the temple to see it.  It was a wonderful day and the weather was absolutely beautiful!

After visiting the temple grounds, we drove them into downtown Chicago and showed them all the major sites down there.  They probably took a couple hundred pictures during our driving tour!  🙂  We then moved south and showed them the museum campuses.  They wanted to go to the Science and Industry Museum on Monday and so we showed them how to get there and how to get back home.  We had a great time chatting with them the whole time and got home just in time for a great dinner and an evening of chatting and re-acquainting!  🙂

Tonight (Monday) for Family Home Evening, Mike and Pat took our family out to dinner at Lou Malnati’s Pizzaria.  We wanted them to enjoy authentic Chicago pizza before going on their way down to Nauvoo.  We had a great time and ordered way too much!  We’ll have a lot of leftovers!  🙂