Grandma Cindy's Visit

Usually Grandma Cindy comes to visit for the birth of a baby or baby blessing. The kind of unwritten law is that she stays at the home of whoever is having this event - and that means...it is not our house. Although we did try to coax her down when we adopted our dog! This month Grandpa was out of town for business in Japan for two weeks, so Grandma decided to come down for a fun trip and stay at our house for a week. It was so much fun to have her here! Usually McKaleigh and Colton talk grandma's ear off telling them all about whatever the goings on are and Alex just kind of hangs out...This time Alex would not leave Grandma's side! He is not a really huggey/lovey kid, so it was surprising to find him...in grandma's bed in the morning, waiting outside the bathroom door for her, sitting in the kitchen puzzling and reading with her. They really bonded this week!

One of the nights she was here we had Uncle Bri and his new girlfriend up for dinner and had a fire at our new backyard fire pit area. I just love this little patch of fun out in our backyard! The kids love it that we can go sit and roast marshmallows or just sit by the fire whenever! (p.s. there is now grass that has grown in between the cracks in the flagstone, and it looks beautiful!).
For two WHOLE days Grandma Cindy, Alex and I baked cookies! We made about 100 sugar cookie cutouts - and frosted them one day. And then added some homemade granola to the mix for a little afternoon snack!

Then we decided to make peanut butter kiss and gingerbread pumpkins another day. Here are Grandma and Alex (who was our expert kiss unwrapper and dough tester!). It looked like we had enough cookies to last months, but alas, by Monday (about 5 days later they were all gone!).
One of the days the boys and I (McKaleigh had a babysitting job) went down to Utah County to have dinner with Uncle Dan and Aunt Sheri. The kids all got along so well together - they played soccer, Beyblades, and of course Uncle Dan got us all to go on a short hike! Then we had dinner around their fire pit!
I did not get a picture of this, but should have...Grandma came up on Wednesday for McKaleigh's first choir concert of the season. McKaleigh looked great and I know it meant so much that Grandma came back up to see the concert!

It is always so fun to have my mom here just to visit, shop, bake and chit chat with. I wish she lived closer...she did sneak in a comment to Alex that it is now his turn to come up to visit her at her house for some more fun!