Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

I'm impressed we got it all (mostly) done. In the same week, I had my entire family visiting, our team at work released the project we've been working on since January to beta testers, and we moved to a neighboring town. Not a small amount of stress, and at least some fun.

Paela's early-to-bed mentality made family togetherness a trick to figure out. We left earlier several nights, but later than Paela would have liked, just to have Paela fall asleep in the car after we'd driven 3-4 blocks. We moved bath time to the morning since she wasn't home for any sort of routine for days. And several nights Wayne was kind enough to hang out alone with the sleeping baby and our kitty for company while I went to hang out with the rest of my family.

We had a nice picnic in the park one evening. Another day we played the typical San Francisco tourists -- eating clam chowder bread bowls on the pier, visiting the botanical gardens in the Golden Gate park, and flying a kite on the beach. We got some nice photos in San Jose's Japanese tea gardens. We grabbed lunch from a taco truck on the way to the Monterey bay aquarium. And no Rees gathering would be complete without some silly games and late nights. Late, of course, being relative and no longer as late as it once was.

Somehow Wayne and I found time to get my hair cut (what better time than when sisters are in town?), attend a company picnic (with a petting zoo -- Paela loved walking up to the chickens and goats but didn't really get that she could touch them if she wanted), pack our apartment up and sign a contract for our new apartment. Saturday morning met with some desperate last minute packing before people from the ward arrived to help move. Angela was kind enough to come entertain Paela so I could finish up packing while Wayne worked hard for much too long. And Karl helped move our many books to our new place.