A Darling Adventure: The Darlings Visit T-Town

Kyle making a list!

On Saturday, June 23, we had two major events happening at our apartment: Feast & the arrival of Kyle's siblings (the older kids)! We had a really great day working together to deep clean the apartment. It was so nice to be completely in sync with each other and helping each other out with our 'tasks'. I am so proud of Kyle for making a list [without me asking him to!] and staying organized. It's usually me making lists - whether virtual through an app or physically on a piece of scrap paper - so it was nice to see him appreciating the usefulness of lists.

Not only did we have to clean, I needed to make cookie dough truffles both for Feast & the in-laws. Leo really liked the chocolate chip cookie dough truffles I made several months ago, so I wanted to make those and try something new: Mexican Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles. Oh, and I needed to make those soft pretzels for their road trip. Party in the kitchen!

Luckily, my sisters came to visit in the afternoon so I had some help in the kitchen while Kyle finished things around the apartment. I don't remember if we took pictures of our kitchen adventure, but if we did - I don't have them, sorry folks.

Feast was really nice and we filled our apartment to capacity! [I believe we had 13 people smooshed into a circle in our living room, representing 5 communities from 2 countries!] Approximately 10 minutes after the last guests left our apartment, Bre, Jaleh, & Leo arrived. Talk about perfect timing. We had just enough time to put all the dishes into the dishwasher, put furniture back in order, and take a deep breath.

Our ~39 hours together was spent with lots of relaxing & chatting. It was really nice for them to finally visit where we call "home" since they will probably never be out here again. I keep getting a lot of questions about "why were they here for such a short time?" or "what are they doing in Denver?", so here is the answer: Leo was moving to Irvine, CA, for school and he decided to drive his car out there and make it a sibling road trip. Kyle couldn't take the entire week off work, so he met them in Denver Wednesday night and rode the remaining way with them. Hopefully Kyle will post some awesome pictures now that he's back and fill us in on what his favorite parts/memories are.

I didn't get a lot of pictures while they were here, mostly because they would have been of us in the same positions on the couches. ;) I'm bummed that I didn't get any photos of us while we were in the shopping complex where I study at Starbucks, but I know they're on Facebook somewhere.

We ventured out of the house Sunday morning to get some items from Target and then start our morning off right with some Starbucks. Then we hung out at home, made tacos for lunch, watched Chopped, enjoyed each others company, made Dan's carbonara recipe for din din, some Forza was played, and then we headed to my study spot for some froyo and more relaxing outside - it was great weather. Monday morning [Kyle went to work] was spent packing up their things, relaxing on the couches some more, some more Forza was played, and I made some stir fry for lunch (my first time making it without Kyle, and we didn't have enough noodles for everyone so I threw in some thin spaghetti - you couldn't even tell!). Then they were on their way to Effingham, IL, for their next stop.