Ma and Grandpa with a side of Crystal and the new baby :)

On March 26th, we headed down to Salt Lake to pick up Wade's parents! They arrived the day before and spent time with family and a dear friend of theirs. We got to be with them for 4 days and we had a fantastic time! They are here for conference. Wade's dad is---officially now WAS---an area seventy for NZ and the pacific and every April conference they come up for meetings. And they get to have some extra time to visit us too. And we are so grateful for that! They got to meet Kate for the first time (they missed Kate by 3 weeks last year) and enjoy cuddles and fun times with Charlotte and Jack. And of course, the kids enjoyed all the new presents they got from them and the family back home. And we loved all of ours too. Especially the chocolate. ESPECIALLY THE CHOCOLATE PEOPLE!!

Grandpa and Jack were so cute. Always together!

We finally were able to get Grandpa to hold Kate. For some reason, she was scared of him. But she's been getting better and not crying in his presence.

Charlotte had the best time with Ma and Grandpa! Keeps asking about them when we're not with them.

Awww, holding their new money tins! They sure got a lot of loot from them and Wade's siblings. Thank you!!!

Kate had so much fun too getting to know Ma and Grandpa :)

We miss all the family from NZ and wish they could have all come too.

Wade's sister, Crystal, was expecting a baby around April 4th. Her first one too. So his parents decided to come and visit before conference so once meetings ended, they could hurry back on the plane back to NZ hopefully make it in time for the new baby.

Well, as luck would have it, she literally went into labor when they got on the plane. She and Sam had a beautiful baby boy on March 26th and he's perfectly healthy! Crystal had quite a scary time after she delivered him. We are grateful she is alive and well and enjoying her new little one. And he has NO name yet. SO HURRY UP! ha ha. Just kidding. Names are SO hard Crystal, I understand :) Just can't wait to hear it. If I get permission, I'll post a picture of the cute little guy! Seriously, he's a beautiful boy!

Yesterday, we got to enjoy a session of conference (will post about that one next...I want to wait until Tuesday to give you ALL the exciting news!!!) and be with Wade's parents. We decided a few days ago to come to Salt Lake for conference weekend. We stayed at the Red Lion last night. Holy moly. Could it become the worst sleep ever for EVERYONE? ha ha. Our next door hotel neighbors decided to drink all night and yell and SCREAM out the window for girls to come up! "Hey, come in from the snow!! We still have 3 bottles left!!! Room 405. ROOM 4-0-5". They did this a few times in the wee hours. PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING!!! The power went out, so the AC didn't muffle the noises and it was awful and we couldn't phone downstairs to complain either! haha. Turns out they were evicted at 4am. By the other next door neighbor. Thank you, Mr. 406! Kate kept crying through the night, Charlotte ended up having a migraine which means throwing up after all the screaming eye and head pain was through, Jack fell out of the bed (which by the way is funny cause Wade couldn't get him out from between the bed and the nightstand and Jack kept saying, stuck daddy!) but he had the best night sleep. On top of it all, we couldn't sleep from all of that PLUS the excitement from conference.

So we decided to get out of our 2nd night in the hotel in Salt Lake and head back today. We'll go down again tomorrow to spend our last afternoon/evening with Wade's parents and have the kids say goodbye. But it's been a fantastic time and enjoyed it! We will miss them for sure :) But thankfully, we'll be able to see them again soon!