Life's Better when Grandma Janet is in Town!

What a fun week and weekend!  Grandma Janet arrived Tuesday evening and we were very excited to see her at the airport and prepare for our week/weekend of exciting events!

Tuesday - After picking her up from the airport, we ordered Toppers Pizza for dinner and ate on the back patio while Maci played in her water table and Clint mowed the lawn.  A fun night on the patio just catching up.

Wednesday - Mom and Maci had a Grandma/Grand Daughter day at our home together.  Maci stayed home from daycare while Clint and I worked.  Maci refused to nap for Grandma because she is just too fun!  However, they did make it to a local park together and took a walk before we got home from a day at the office.  We then had Tacos together for dinner and enjoyed watching HGTV, a grandma Janet favorite!

Thursday - I was now off the rest of the week from work!  However, I went in for one 7a meeting with the executive admins.  Clint started his day by taking mom and Maci into work at 8a when my meeting was ending.  Mom and Maci then hung out in my office until I got back from my meeting.  :)

3 Generations in my Cargill Office

After walking around the office a little bit, we headed home to change and get ready for our real Thursday plans - the ZOO!  The Gilroy grandparents gave us our Zoo passes for Christmas so it seemed only fitting to take Grandma Janet to see the Zoo!

Maci was not in the mood to sit for a picture!

That night after Clint got home from work, we picked up some Famous Dave's carry out and then mom and I headed to the new outlet malls for some shopping while Clint took care of crazy Maci for us.  Always nice to get out and do some shopping with mom!

Friday - Clint was now also off work and able to join us for Minnesota State Fair Day!!!  The Minnesota State Fair is the 3rd largest state fair and a must see if you are in town for the ~ 2 week run of the fair.  We purposely had my mom plan her visit around the fair so she could enjoy the fun and that we did!  We all enjoyed way too much amazing fair food and Maci loved the rides/animals!

Getting on the Kidding Water Bumper Boats

 Real Bumper Cars

Farm Help Fun 

Smokey the Bear

Found Something Maci was Scared of. . . :)

Grandma & Maci on the Elephant Ride

The Beloved Whale Ride

 WAHOO STATE FAIR!!!

Saturday - We enjoyed a random day on Saturday after several days of jam packed plans.  We started the day by going to breakfast at Egg & I - yummy!  After breakfast, Maci went home for a nap while my mom and I did a little more shopping/grocery shopping for the week - yes, this is what she wanted to do with me.  After we got all the shopping done, we had Ham's Sandwich shop for a late lunch/early dinner.  We debated doing a fire but ended up deciding to make popcorn and to watch a movie after Miss M went to bed.  We watched a funny movie and it was a nice way to end the trip, very relaxing.

Sunday - Mom had to leave to the airport fairly early with a 10a flight time =(  After we pulled away from dropping her off around 8a, I did my usual 5 mins of tears in the car.  After I calmed down, we grabbed some bagels and went for a long family walk around the local nature preserve, such a nice Sunday morning.  

Maci took a nap on the way home and now we are starting to do some housework in preparation for the Mondell's to arrive Monday evening.  They are visiting on their way out west and they will be staying with us until Thurs morning.  Tomorrow we all head back to work and daycare to somewhat get back to our routines.

Lots of Love,

C, K & M