Update

I picked up Ben from the airport this morning! Oh I missed him. I am a whimp but four nights was the longest we've been apart. Troy, as I predicted, cried immediately when he saw Ben. He stopped when Ben picked him up though. He wouldn't let go of him for his life. Ben started driving home, but he ended up getting in the back with Troy because Troy kept trying to see him and would cry. It was precious.

The boys had an adventure this morning. Devin's car is quite old and that is the one they took to California. This morning, on the way to the airport, it started making gunshot noises and wouldn't go very fast. Alan said that he had heard that noise in his car a couple weeks ago. What you don't know is that Alan's car died shortly after. They had to get off of the freeway and were only able to go about 40 mph. Luckily they planned on being an hour early to the airport because they got there about 1/2 hour before Ben's plane took off. It was pretty stressful though. Luckily Ben made it, but he was worried about my brothers. They were still planning on driving to Anaheim to go to Disneyland. The car was slowly dieing but it landed in front of an auto shop. BLESSING. The car would take too much money to fix, and so it is being taken to a junkyard. BUT Devin needs the title for them to do that.. so Sarah is overnighting it to him. BLAH morning. Luckily Tyler knows a lot of people from his mission that are willing to give them rides. Annie made a good suggestion to try and rent a car and drive home. Much cheaper than flying. They won't ever forget this trip :)

Troy and I kept ourselves busy by visiting others and cooking. We visited a friend in the ward and her daughter. Troy LOVES other kids. Especially their toys. We also visited my Grandma and Grandpa Farnsworth. They knew exactly what toys to get out. I always worry that Troy will just cry when we go over but Grandma pulls out some new magical toy that Troy immediately falls in love with. I am so glad that he likes toys. My mom said that Alan (my older brother) wouldn't play with toys.

I also made Orange Chicken again yesterday. It sounds ambitious, but I really just crave it a ton. I found THE best recipe for it online and I use the sauce from Costco. It tastes exactly the same! I made a lot so that we could have it again tonight.

One more update. Troy is getting so close to taking steps! He will stand in between our couch and coffee table and let go completely in between, turn towards the other and grab on. He is so close! Devin has predicted May 3rd.. so we will see.