Dan and Kristi and Rowan

Our friends Dan and Kristi and their wonderful son Rowan were visiting family from their home in Moab, Utah, and made time to come up and visit. It was the first time that Gail and Ben had met Kristi and Rowan, and we had a great time hanging out and playing in the water...

Here's a nice pic of Dan and Rowan in the water in front of the boathouse, with Ben and Ayla playing in the background...


Rowan and Kristi having fun in the shallow and sandy spot next to the dock...


A picnic on the boathouse upstairs with the Buerkett girls...hot dogs, hamburgers, brownies, root beer...good stuff...Dan and Kristi spent a lot of the time tag-teaming Rowan as he did his 1.5 year-old thing and ran around endlessly while Gail and I and Toph and Becca felt and experienced and slightly glad/sad not to still be doing it with our kids...



Ben and Rowan had a great time playing in the yard, especially with a cool rocket toy that they could both enjoy...Dan and Kristi and Rowan stayed Saturday night with the Buerketts and Sunday night with us, and Monday morning the boys got in some nice playtime before Team Moab had to pull up stakes and head back down towards Dan's family in Colonie...


They also played some follow-the-leader and hide-and-seek, mostly involving climbing over and under and inside the boats...

Before they took off, Kristi was kind enough to read to the boys for a bit...it was a great visit, but too short...we're hoping for a longer visit next time (and planning one of our own to Moab soon)...