Mason & Nora Visit

 Mason works part time and remotely for Walsh Engineering. He had to come to Idaho Falls to be in the office for a few days to get trained on a project. Bailey had to stay in Boise and work, so that meant I got Nora for a couple days! I absolutely adore this girl! I took lots of pictures and videos documenting our days so I could send them to Bailey. 

We kicked off our morning with huckleberry pancakes for breakfast.

Nora loves the cats, and Floof was just living his best life having her here. He followed Nora around and got bossed around by her all weekend. 😆

Nora loves her stuffed animals just like Bailey used to when she was little. So, while she was here, I pulled out Bailey's box, and showed Nora all the stuffed animals her mama used to love so much.

She gravitated right to Baby Sara, who was Bailey's absolute favorite.

We made fruity pebble rice crispy treats, and Nora called them 'rice Christmas trees.' That will forever be their name now.

We had negative and single digit temps, so we had to get very bundled up to go out and check on the animals.

Nora wanted to feed Dolly. Turn the sound up and listen to how cute she is talking to Dolly to make sure she likes her snack. 😊

She's so calm around the animals and doesn't have much fear. She fed everyone treats without even a lot of help from me.

Then we came back in the house for playtime downstairs. We put together the farm lego set, did puzzles, and read lots of books.

She loves the lego set.

Lunch time! She made sure I had all the same things as her on my plate. 😄

After lunch we spent a good amount of time doing crafts. I bought the cutest paper plate craft set on Amazon, and she loved making them!

Her turtle plate.

Elephant

Dog

Monkey & zebra

One of her favorite things to do is go to 'work' in our office. She types away on my laptop, and takes notes. It's the cutest thing!

Friday was equally fun and busy!

Kicked off the morning with mini waffles.

Pops was off work, so he got to play with us! Building legos!

She loves when Pops sings to her! 😂

Ta-da!

Pops had some work to do out in the barn because we were having a gathering there the next day, so while he worked, Nora played in the splash pad (shower), and went swimming (big tub).  She loved this, and would have done it all day, but once she started getting really pruney, I had her get out. 😅

Splash pad!

Swimming!

It's been years since I've done little girl hair, but we tried some big curls.

Pom pom crafts!

I got her lunch ready, and I was just gonna have chips and salsa for lunch. You better believe she ignored her lunch and had chips and salsa right with me. 

More paper plate crafts.

Lots of books and some quiet time with Michem.

She watched Pops doing work on the tractor out the window, so she asked if she could have a tractor ride.

There was an intense farm game happening while I was making dinner. Floof was right in the mix of it! 😂

She named the duck 'Goose Egg!' 😂 I'm totally letting her name our new batch of chickens in the spring.

Mason and Nora were leaving to go home on Saturday morning. Nora had just enough time to come out to the barn and do the Valentine's photo booth with Opal.

Such little cuties!

I had a blast having Nora here, and I hope Mason has to come back to the office a lot! She makes my life happy!