Visit with The Folks

I know, I know. I haven't blogged in FOREVER! But, a lot has happened. Namely, my folks came to town for a nice long visit. We had a lot of fun :> I'll give you some of the highlights now while the boys are taking a bath:

• Got to show off our new house and yard, which both mom and dad really liked.
• T had lots of fun coloring with Grammie each morning while R went to school.
• Went on a road trip to Holland, MI to see the windmills and tulips.
• Saw a local minor league baseball game and sat in the "expensive" box seats with a waitress and everything -- the seats were onlyl six bucks! Gotta love small towns.
• Went to the local airplane museum and sat in "every cock pit that was there" according to R. Mom and Dad got a kick at how much the boys know about planes and how M teaches them more and more all the time.
• Went to a card making workshop with Mom and had some good mother-daughter creative time.
• Went on a road trip to M's folks house for a really nice visit -- fishing, sand castle building, hammock sitting, board game (Pegs and Jokers) playing, boating, and general laughing, gabbing, and having a good time.
• Almost 40 games of Pegs and Jokers with me and M against Mom and Dad -- after crushing them one of the nine nights of playing (they blame it on the wine and distraction of doing laundry at the same time) we ended up almost even, but M and I were ahead by two games when they left for the airport. What fun! We were addicted. The *minute* the kids were in bed, we were dealing the cards :>
• Grammy improvised songs about each of T's stuffed animals, which had him in stiches for twenty minutes.
• Planting more window boxes with my mom (I have five now and three planters full of flowers -- I think I'm done now!)
• Just being together as a family.

All in all, it was a really great visit. Too bad I miss them already...