Poc and Nana

Poc and Nana came to visit us for their spring break a couple weeks ago.  We had such a great time.  We didn't plan a whole lot. Nana's birthday was that week so we celebrated by taking lunch to the park and BBQ'ing that night, followed by a tasty (if I can say so myself) spring-ish Strawberry- lime-coconut dessert.

 Happy Birthday Nana!

 Kelsey loved the strawberry cake so much she kept stealing all the utensils thinking she'd get more.

 When Grandparents visit that equates to nearly unlimited pushes in the swing, tricycle rides and readings of Pete the Cat (her new favorite books from the library).

 Rylee's new best friend: her tinkerbell doll

 Since we didn't have a lot of other plans keeping us out of the house Michael put his Dad to use getting to the "honey-do" list.  The most exciting on said list for me was installing the fan on our back porch and putting together the girls little table and chairs. (Thank you!!).  Rylee got in on the screw driver action whenever she could.  And she's practically a pro at ladder climbing.

 We did run up to the temple one day to run errands.  Unfortunately the day we chose, the temple happened to be closed in the middle of the day so we just walked around instead of going inside.

 Rylee had a fun time feeding her goldfish crackers to the snap dragons :)

 Michael and I got a date night in.  Their last night the boys went hunting and so the girls went to see Rapunzel at the children's theatre.  Rylee had more fun than the photo leads on.  Good think I brought a booster for her and she was strapped in as I refused to take her to the bathroom during the show.  Rylee liked it and talks about it often.  Her favorite part was when Rapunzel got her hair cut "just like I got a hair cut!"

 She was excited to see the princess after the show, the line was really long so I tried to change her mind but that wasn't happening.  She kept saying "I want to give the Princess a hug!".  I really didn't feel like carrying her and Kelsey to the car screaming so we went back inside.  The actors/actresses were roped off to form a line and they were signing autographs and posing for pictures so there was some down time between each of the characters.  Nana held up the rope and asked Rapunzel if Rylee could sneak in to give her a hug, of course she obliged.  Rylee was satisfied for a few minutes but as soon as we got on the freeway she said "Oh NO!! I forgot to give the Princess a kiss!" she was panic stircken.  I told her to go ahead and blow the princess a kiss and all was right in the world again.

We had a great time visiting all week.  Rylee asked if Poc and Nana were going to come back to her house tomorrow. Sorry! Hopefully this summer will be sufficient and maybe Kelsey will recognize them and not run away as fast as she can at first sight (she nearly took down Miyoshi trying to get away from Poc while at church).  That girl loves her Momma. If only Wisconsin weren't so far away. . . . :(