Grandma Comes to visit & we celebrated Fathers Day

We were lucky to have Grandma come visit for a week in May. The visit was full of quality time and lots of kisses from Madeline and hugs from Dominic.  We were going to pick up Grandma from the airport together, but her flight was delayed till 10:30 p.m. so the kids had to stay home.

The morning after Grandma arrived.  The kids woke up early and were ready to play.  We stayed in our PJs till almost 9 then headed to school.   Wednesday and Thursday mornings were really fun to see everyone on the floor playing cars, building lego sheds and using our 'ninja skills' fighting each other.

    

After school, we continued the fun activities with outdoor backyard play. Dominic was excited to show Grandma his basketball and soccer skills. Madeline, on the other hand, tagged along and kept up for awhile. But decided to play in the dirt and plant flowers (fake flowers).

 

On Fridays, mom has off and we were going to Friendly Farm but the weather did not look like it would cooperate.  So I packed our lunch and headed to 'Imagine That' in Lawerance MA.  It is an indoor playground.  They have an indoor jumper, play ship with fishing rods to fish, grocery store, craft section and an indoor obstacle course.

Since it was right before Fathers Day.  They had a special event where you can get donuts and make a special projectmfor daddy.  The kids made hand prints for their dad saying, We Love You!

While we were there.  It was Madeline's 1st time and her brother showed her the layout of the fun areas of the play area.  Dominic was really excited about the indoor jumping center and made sure his sister took part in the jumping fun.  From there he took her to the indoor dinosaur maze.  You can climb up the rope, go through the bone maze, jump through the Firestones or go through the REALLY fast slide.  Later on, we rode on the 'Arrrr pirate' and wore pirate patches and went grocery shopping.  Both kids were nonstop and really enjoyed all the fun activities.

On Saturday we decided to get ice cream to celebrate the beginning of summer.  Yum Yum

Over the weekend we enjoyed family time and Sunday we attended our annual 5 miler rib roast. Mom and dad raced as Grandma watched the kiddos.  After the race, we enjoyed getting ribs, beers for adults and then just danced and ran around in the open field as live music was playing.  It was just so fun to see the kids free spirited and really enjoy every moment.  After the festival, we spent the rest of the day, poolside.  It was very hot and we really needed to cool down. 

Taking Grandma to the airport.... saying our sad goodbyes.