Shoes

My parents came to visit for the weekend. Since they were only here 2 days my girls were all pretty sad when it was time to to say good-bye and go to bed last night (my parents were leaving early this morning, so we knew the girls wouldn't be up before they departed).

After Russ and I had gone to our room to get ready for bed my Dad knocked on the door and asked if my Mom had left her church shoes in our room. We looked around but didn't see them. He said she couldn't remember where she had taken them off, but they had been looking all over and were unable to locate them. I helped him look around the house a little more but we didn't see them at all. Jokingly, I told Russ Ashlyn had probably hidden the shoes so my Mom wouldn't be able to leave.

A few minutes later my Mom came to our room and said she would just have to pack up without the shoes and, assuming we would find them some time, asked if I could bring them with me the next time I visit them in Utah (which is early May, so just a few weeks away). I couldn't believe the shoes were really missing, so I came out and started looking around again and asking my Mom questions about when and where she took them off. She had put Brenna down for a nap shortly after we returned from church so I wondered if she had taken them off in the girls' bedroom (we moved Brenna's bed into the room Kaylee and Ashlyn share temporarily so we could use Brenna's room as a guest room for my parents).

The girls were all asleep but I went into their room and crawled around on the floor looking for the shoes. I looked under bean bag chairs and around Brenna's bed, but didn't find anything. Ashlyn's bed usually has a bunch of stuff under it, but when I looked there I thought I could see a pair of shoes clear back by the wall, though they were men's shoes. I pulled them out and immediately started laughing when I discovered they belonged to my Dad. And my Mom's missing shoes were right behind them.

Crazy girl really did hide their shoes so they wouldn't be able to leave.