Wild Weekend at the Wrides!

We were thrilled to have some weekend visitors from Idaho! Rachel and Eric came down for Lisa's wedding on Saturday (an old roommate of both Leslie and Rachel), and stayed until Monday night! Visitors are the greatest - most especially family. We loved having them here. We played games, went to dinner, made chocolate chip cookies, watched movies, and (the part we think they liked best) stared for hours at our new fish.


Rachel let us use her Sam's Club card to buy milk and diet Cokes (thanks again Rach!) And thanks to a quick visit to Midvale Elementary, all of the girls in Leslie's second grade class now think that Rachel is their new best friend, and Eric is the coolest, and tallest, boy they know. We sure hope they come again soon! We love visitors! (Hint, hint... Any one else up for a visit to Draper?!)

Fishy Friends

Meet the newest additions to the Wride home!! Aren't they cute?! We've had the black one since February and decided that he needed a few friends. So, after two hours in PetCo (it took us a while to choose which ones we liked the best...) we came home with a big aquarium, a killer filter (no more cleaning!), and 7 new fish! Peter chose the shark (honestly, he's a real bala shark), Leslie chose the wimpy gold and blue ones (wimpy... but cute), there's a big white and gold fantail goldfish, and a little sucker (to keep our new aquarium clean). Names are still to be determined - any votes? The black one is our good friend Moody, because of his crazy eyes, and the shark has become Hagrid, because he looks so big and scary but really is the nicest one in the tank. Harry Potter anyone? You would be surprised how long you can be entertained by staring at a tank full of little fish... We use to watch TV, now we just watch our fish. We've turned into geeks - it's true, but we love our new little fishy friends.