Rain, rain, go away!!!

We were hoping the rain would go away for the grandparents visit, but no luck.  They left Portland in the snow and then came here to the rain.  I guess that is some improvement!  We did have a few nice days and they took advantage whenever the sun peeked out.

The kids had school, so we didn’t get to go and do a bunch of fun stuff, but grandma and grandpa did get to see the Reggie do piano, swimming and Ainsley gymnastics.  We also visited the library where the Ainsley read to service dogs and later in the week, we enjoyed watching the egg drop at Rancho (every year the 3^rd graders build a contraption to keep an egg from breaking when thrown off the top of the school building).

We spent lots of time getting Ainsley's hat ready for the hat parade.  Grandma made flowers out of kleenex and we made bugs out of various craft supplies.  This wind caught it just as I took the picture.

Grandma and Ainsley working on pie crust..

 Relaxing with Grandpa

 Reggie got a lesson on checkers (the real rules) and was not so happy with grandpa.  When grandpa was a kid, he used to play all the time and it is his game!  Reggie has gotten a lot more competitive and frustrated when he doesn’t win, so it was a learning experience for him.  The Shuffleboard table was also a huge hit.  The grandparents played the kids a lot and the adults finally played and it was quite obvious that grandpa needed a bit more practice!

When grandpa wasn’t chatting with the locals and buying donuts, he was busy in the yard and made a huge improvement trimming the trees. It feels so much brighter and bigger and the sun shines in the window in the afternoon and it is awesome! I’m very glad he didn’t hurt himself or knock over the fragile fence.

We celebrated my birthday while mom and dad were here, so that was a nice treat. Apple pie and stew/pork. We had a bit of trouble deciding on meat, so she cooked two and the beef won out! It was delicious :o). Ryan and I had bought tickets to Ray Ramono and Kevin James and it happened to be that weekend, so we had a date night with the Williams. It is always fun to laugh!! The neighbor even remembered my birthday and brought over some tempura vegetables and whole fish. The kids eyes were as big as golf balls. Ainsley wanted to see the fish head, so mom tore it off and then dissected it to show them the eye ball. I’m thinking they won’t be eating any whole fish in the near future.

Painting pottery at Cafe Art when we played hookey from school!

Getting ready to eat pie :o)!!

Did she really bite the head off the fish?

Sorry for the crazy format....blogger changed everything and I didn't take the time to figure out how to make it work for me....maybe next time