Nancy and Mark - The Summer Visiting Season Begins!

Hey y'all - 

Your great-aunt Nancy (Grandma Sue's sister) and her husband Mark are visiting us this week, making them our very first summer visitors. As I've mentioned time and again, if you live in Montana, people only seem to want to visit you in the summer. It's a marvel to me that any work gets done in this state at all between June and August. Nancy said she wanted to be first on purpose so we wouldn't be suffering from visitor fatigue. 

For our first big outing, your dad decided we should go to Lake Como. It's absolutely beautiful, but at an elevation of 4500', it's about 20 degrees colder than I'd like it to be. That didn't slow down this crowd, though:

Your great-uncle Mark is originally from Boston, and still talks like it. Before we could start driving to the lake, we had to wait for him to run get some swim shorts at Tahhhhget.

Nancy is a former Head Start teacher who now leads kids on science and nature-based excursions, so you guys are always in hog heaven when you hang out with her. She is infinitely patient and knows dozens of songs about dinosaurs. After teaching you a song about T-Rexes, Hagen made one up about a triceratops. This is you guys with your triceratops horns:

If only we could get Hagen to be more comfortable around her:

All around, a great way to kick off our summer of visitors.

Love,

Mom