Grandma's Visit

We were very lucky to get almost two whole weeks to spend with my mom when she came out to visit us during the month of March. Of course no visit with my mom would be complete without hundreds of pictures so I've attempted to narrow down the lot in order to give a condensed history of the many activities that happened while she was here...

She hadn't seen Nolan since his blessing over 6 months ago and it was fun for her to see just how big and grown up this little man has become. He loves food now and has become quite the expert at picking up finger foods and feeding himself!

Grandma also fixed "Doggie" so that he now has a nose again!

Landon and Abby both enjoyed playing with Grandma's many earrings that she brought...

And showing off their mad jumping skills on the trampoline!

Abby has gotten pretty good at doing her semi-pullups on this bar. You can also see "Patrick" who acted as a sort of "Elf on the Shelf" during March to watch out for good behaviour. Every time they had a good day, Abby and Landon both received two quarters from Patrick (i.e. Grandma!!)

Landon also spent many morning building shapes and toys out of Grandma's curlers. Who needs toys and Lego's when you've got curlers!

Of course Grandma got to give lots of loves to this little munchkin. He is very squeezable!

I love that my kids are creating such fun memories with their Grandma. We don't get to see grandparents as often as we would like, but when we get together, we sure have a lot of fun!

I think the only time we ever get pictures of our entire family is when Grandma Julie comes to visit...

Abby was also very excited about she has now mastered the "swinging" monkeybars at City Park. She had to show off her new skill to both Grandma and to Dad on another day.

Of course Landon has some pretty nifty climbing skills of his own!

Nolan can't do much at the park quite yet, but he did seem to like these baby swings...

Nolan is also very content with just a basket of toys next to him. He usually loves to empty out the whole basket and then play with the basket itself!

On Thursday, March 15th, Jason, Nolan and I headed to Idaho Falls to attend Shanna's wedding (Jason's youngest sister.) It was a very quick trip and after all was said and done we figured out that we had spent 26 hours either driving, flying or in the airport and only 29 house actually in Idaho (only 16 of which we were actually awake!) but we were glad to be able to be there for Shanna and Ryan on their big day. We were also very grateful to my mom who stayed with Landon and Abby while we were gone. Not only did it save us about $1200 in flying fees, but it also saved the kids (and us) from such a long 2 1/2 days of traveling. Nolan was an angel through it all but I doubt Landon and Abby would have enjoyed it near as much!

While we were gone, they enjoyed some beautiful 80 degree weather and created some beautiful masterpieces with their sidewalk chalk.

They also made a "Leprechaun Trap" on March 16th in hopes that a Leprechaun would leave them a special treat on St. Patrick's Day...

They were mighty pleased with their green M&Ms and quarters!!

We sure had a great time with Grandma while she was here. We took her down to spend another week with Tasha and then enjoyed having my entire family (minus Tami) come up last weekend to celebrate Reygan's 1st birthday. March was definitely a great month to see family (we saw everyone on both sides except for one person.) Not too bad considering how far away we live from everyone!