Weekend with the Grandkids

 

(L to R) Payton, Gracie, Brinly, Eli, Bronson at Mickey D's

It was a rainy, wet weekend in the desert this past weekend. After trudging through the Parade of Homes show, we decided to take Kari & Will's kids Saturday evening and all day Sunday while they were away in San Diego. We also picked up Jimmy and Hollie's daughter, Gracie, so she could join in the fun too and bond with her new cousins.

We started the evening off at Mickey D's (McDonald's for the uninitiated). Each of the kids got there own happy meal and they all scarfed their's down quickly. I'm not sure if that was because they were hungry or just wanted to go play. Either way, they were all really good. We rewarded everyone for being so good by having hot fudge sundaes before we left.

Getitng all five of them ready for bed was "managed mayhem", but Nana Sue is amazing. She even was able to get them all dressed for church on Sunday morning while I was already at church. It was so cute to see them following Sue in to the Chapel....Like a mother duck and her ducklings. They allwere perfect angles during church.

Sue and I got to teach the Sharing Time lesson in Primary and it was so much more fun for us because not only did we get to teach all of the children, but we got a chance to teach our own grandchildren. They are all so smart. Kari & Will, and Jimmy and Hollie have done such a great job of raising them in the Gospel.

When we got home from church Grandma had made a nice Turkey dinner for my belated birthday clebration and all of the grandkids and Jimmy & Hollie sang to me.

It was a great weekend.

p.s. Jimmy and Hollie bought me our first ammo can filled with some cool Utah mementos to use for our own geocache. Sue and I are trying to figure out where we can put it that will be accessible, beautiful, but still would require some work to find. We'll find a place real soon I'm sure.

p.p.s Did we ever tell you how much we adore our grandkids? :)