Grandma, Greatgrandma and Greatgrandpa left this morning to go back to Ohio. They arrived on the Friday I left for San Antonio, so they got to visit for a little over a week. It was wonderful having company. It is always great having family around. We truly appreciate them making the trip out! Jim's grandparents are in their 80s and they just spent over 14 hours each way in a car just to come visit us!! Amazing!

My kids as usual had a blast with grandma. Shane and Debbie have always been very close and are the best of friends. There isn't anything that Shane can't get grandma to do with him! His new biggest thing to do with grandma, is teach her how to play video games!! Kayla was a little more shy around our visitors, but she would always keep an eye on her grandma. If grandma left had to run upstairs for something, Kayla would look at me and say, "where gama go?", and I would tell her she went upstairs, and Kayla would run up there after her to see what she was doing. Grandma also had a makeup bag, so that was a HUGE plus! Kayla is very into looking "pre pre", so she would bug grandma for makeup!



Kayla's bithday is not till the 6th, but we celebrated her 2nd birthday yesterday since we had the family in town. She didn't quite understand what was going on at first, but quickly caught wind that there was cake and ice cream and then presents! I baked some chocolate cupcakes and she just loved them. It was perfect.

We ate fried chicken for dinner and the kids LOVED it!



Here are some pictures of her eating her cupcake and opening her gifts!



Shane got to open a few gifts also! He was very excited about that!!! He got 2 new Ben 10 toys and Jim also got him his own real tool box! Jim also found this little Home Depot bird house that he thought would be a fun project for the to do together.



On a sad note, my flowers by the mailbox are ALL GONE! Within a day, some little bugs ate all my beautiful bright pink petunias. We started to panic because we didn't want these little bugs eating our beautiful impatients in the front of the house. Jim did some research online and found out by the pictures, that they are some sort of tabacoo hornworms, and that they only really eat a few kinds of flowers, one of them being petunias, but thankfully, not impatients.