Laura and Thomas came to visit this weekend. They were in Michigan for a court date (Thomas’ ex is being difficult about custody, with him moving to Maryland) and on the way back came to stay with us. Beth and I were out at Wal-Mart before they got here, and found a Nelson’s fundraiser the National Guard or someone was doing, where they had a great big inflatable obstacle course playset for the kiddies. Alex and Missy had a great time. Laura and Thomas got here Saturday afternoon. We had a Katie day, but no plans, so while she had the kids we went out to dinner at the Boathouse. Then shopping at Elder-Beerman and Courthouse Coffee. We basically killed time at CC until we thought the kids would be asleep and then went home. Sunday I remembered I was supposed to drive the van for church so I went in, but Virgil agreed to drive the van on the way home so that got me off the hook. We all went to Kircher’s orchard in the afternoon (record heat today...it was blazing sticky hot there...90+) where they were having harvest festival, and picked some very nice golden delicious apples. We also had a short hayride to the pumpkin patch and got a couple small ones (and remembered last year, when we took the kids to that farm place in Ann Arbor around this time of year, and it was freezing). Sunday night we went out to dinner at Applebee’s instead of going to movie night, and played Apples to Apples. They left early Monday (today) as I was going to work.