Surprise Visitors

I wasn't feeling very well one day, so I decied to lay down with Mckinlee for a nap, when I heard my back door open. At first I thought Rob had come home from work early, but then I noticed it was my parents walking down my hall! Of all days they chose to show up unannounced when my house wasn't exactly in order. Oh well, it was still the best surprise ever. It was fun to see the girls' reactions when they came home from school and saw grandma and grandpa sitting on our couch. My parents are seriously the best parents! Not only was my house not how I would have liked it to be, but my garage and back yard were a disaster - something that had been driving me crazy for awhile. But Rob and I have been so busy doing our floors and other house projects that the other stuff was getting put on hold. Anyways my parents totally helped us clear out our garage of all our old basebaords and scraps of wood and spent all day working in our yard. I was so grateful for them. It was a really fun visit.My kids love having my dad give them a choo choo train ride before bed. I always loved this as a kid too. He would take us all over the house and we especially loved when he would go outside. Then he would drop us off at each of our bedrooms.
Mckinlee just loves having tea parties! Unfortunately, she doesn't get to have them as often as she would like. So it was a real treat to get to have a tea party with Grandma! Now that's some quality one-on-one time!


We went over to my aunt and uncle's for a barbaque on Sunday. It was so fun to get together with them. It's a shame we don't get together more often. They just live in Houston!

My dad always gets these huge maple bars when he comes to visit. They're the same ones he got for us as kids. And there still as big as I remember them being. Since Madison's birthday was the following week we stuck some candles in and sang happy birthday to her.