Mimi and Papa have come into town! It's been a few months since we've seen them and, let me tell you, the excitement level in our house they day they were to arrive was through.the.roof!!
Alley being silly with some of her belated Easter filler (whatever you call that stuff!)
They got to meet Bailey for the first time…she definitely thinks she's a lap dog;)
The first night they were here, we had story time. Papa and Mimi spent most of the evening read books to the girls:) These girls sure do love books AND their Mimi and Papa.
Boy do I love a good project and luckily, my parents do too! The plan was to have them help us mulch the back portion of the yard so that we can add a fun play area for the girls. Of course, the weather didn't want to cooperate on the first day they were here….so, we decided to paint the kitchen! Yeah!
We are getting our cabinets painted soon and I had planned to paint the walls after the cabinets were finished. I love that my parents actually came up with the idea that we should go ahead and paint the walls, since the weather wasn't cooperation gout side for us to mulch! Yeah!
The girls took a break from watching the paint dry, to take Bailey for a walk around the neighborhood. Aw, sisterly love…any bets on how long this hand-holding, merrily skipping along, vision of love lasted??!:)
The next morning the weather was beautiful. Our plans were restored and we began a loooong day of working outside. Mimi and Papa are such troopers!
Even the girls got involved in transporting mulch. Alley's mulching wagon…MC catching a ride back to the big mulch pile
apparently Mimi needed some help driving her "train" back to the mulching station…choo-chooo
oh look, they picked up a passenger...
Mimi cleaned off our slide…it was in desperate need of some TLC…thanks Mimi!
Papa hard at work!
Of course, everyone staring at the tree that needs to be taken down. When Mimi and I heard Papa and Andy were going to take a tree down, we decided we needed to go shopping (grocery and plant shopping…not clothes…whomp-whomp). We did NOT need to be around for that one!
Aaaaaand, we came back to this…success!
snack time games. Who can throw their apple cores the farthest...
MC with the under hand toss
Alley with the blind, don't look where you are throwing, toss
Kendall looks uncomfortable…maybe a softball pitch? or a touchdown dance?!
Let me tell you, MC is a little worker bee! The other two girls got tired and went inside to play, but little MC kept on working hard!!
Papa's little shadow…I have a feeling that this was me when I was little…following Papa around and watching him in the shop, asking to help or asking questions about everything.
All of Papa's little helpers (side note, we got 4 truck loads of mulch…that was crazy….)
Sunday we celebrated our accomplishments with a little Krispy Kreme! Nothing says good job better than KK donuts!! We say good-bye to Mimi and Papa for a few days as they travel south to Florida…the best thing is that in a few days they will be back!
TWhen they return, we have a little family pyramid going on…a little rough, but we managed it.
Good bye Mimi and Papa! Come back soon!
I will leave you with a little bit of silliness…until next time!! Rest up Mimi and Papa, I've already started a list of things we can tackle next visit!! ;)
