Sue and Greg Visit!

Last weekend the in-laws were in town! Woot Woot! Our first visitors of 2010-- Goooo in-laws! We had such a great time visiting, reminiscing, eating, shopping, resting, and celebrating life with family. The Elk Grove-Scovilles had not visited us since exactly a year before. (well, almost exactly) Last year their visit was accompanied by our friend: rain. This year however, they experienced our best weather of the year so far: sunny spring in the 70s!! It was perfect. The weekend consisted of:
Palios (of course), Powells Books (of course), Avignon Bar, shopping, Laughing Planet, Dove Vivi Pizza, The Old Wives Tale (First and Last time going), Park Ave Cafe, The Rose Garden, vegan discoveries (you know-since we have a vegan in the family now. JUST KIDDING-- just giving someone a hard time. ;) No titled vegans in this family), lounging at our apartment enjoying the good weather, Cup and Saucer, Cigar bar--no girls allowed, and a certain spur of the moment-- crazy act permitted because of pure kindness on my behalf for wes: tattoos. Thats right. Wes and Greg got tattoos together. Not quite so sure if I was allowed to announce this on our dear bloggy blog but... I couldn't resist. (sorry in advance if this was suppose to be a secret!!) The kicker? it was my idea. Well, jokingly my idea.

It all happened like this...

We are driving home from breakfast on a beautiful sunday morning. We pass the tattoo place where Wes has gotten a tattoo before. Wes points this out and I say "ha ha we should all get matching tattoos!" Wes freaks out taking me seriously and from then on he is on a mission to make this happen. Greg turns out wanting to add a little something to the tattoo he already has and Wes (of course) has a list of things he's thought over for a year to choose from. So, we have quite the adventure. Tattooing actually happens and Sue and I sit and watch our husbands get all inked up. I can now say that I have sat in a tattoo parlor. (do they still call them parlors?) I will admit that it was quite fun to do together and because I know you are all wondering: Wes got the Luther Seal tattooed to his upper left arm and because I don't have permission to tell I will let Greg's be a secret. They both turned out really well. I will also admit that I only pretend to loathe and cringe everytime Wes gets a tattoo. It is never an easy decision, after all, what permanent decision really is any easy one? But I can now view Wes' tattoos as art and I love the thoughtfulness and planning that goes into each one. Don't worry mom he won't end up looking like this guy. (click on me!) Ha ha! I'm just saying... for all the bashing I do, I'm only joking and support my husband 100%.

So that was our weekend. I'm so thankful for the time well spent and can't wait for my trip home in June to see everyone else. Love you all and Bring on the pictures from the weekend....