Friday, December 14, 2012

It's always fun for everyone...


...when grandma & grandpa come - hurray!


We had a chain countdown for the whole month of November for G & G to come and the excitement was building and building.  And when I picked them up from the airport and came to get the kids from Aunt Kate's house - Luke bolted out the door at 50 mph and jumped 6'4" in the air to my dad.  Now, that's excited.   We had a blast with them here.  

dancing to mozart with grandma

a crawling lesson with grandpa

presents!

mom: "well, hello mr. chicken." lucy: "well hello mr......grandma"



eating grandpa's toes --- mmmm (taste of his own medicine)
Dropping Luke off for preschool.  (it's "exercise day" - thus Luke's exercise getup)
Luke was so excited for Ms. Amber to meet his Grandma

M&D woke up at the crack of dawn to come see me run the St. Jude 5K.  Here are some before and afters.

before

after
oh yeah, look at that 5K makeover.  Doesn't it make you want to run right this minute so you too could look like that?  I look marvelous but I feel even marvelous-er.  Soooo I'm not really in shape yet.  But I did make my goal time by 1 second!  (not that great but my goal was to get in the twenty sixes and I got 26:59!  I was actually really happy about that)
my proud parents (I felt like it was high school track with my parents there cheering for me)
 My running buddy.  We trained and ran the St. Jude's Half 2 years ago.  It sold out this year so we did the 5K.  We were going to train together but never got around to it.  It works well to have her as my running friend since we like to have all our babies within a week or two of each other. 
Jerianne
quick after church picture

phew....and that's a wrap

PS - We celebrated Luke's birthday while they were here too.  More on that to come.  But until then here is a sneak peak of these awesome grandparents who know how to party...



PPS - I've said it before and I'll say it again - nothing means more to me than to have my parents love my children. And getting them all to ourselves was such an incredible treat. 

1 comment:

kate said...

yay! my faves were that picture of the crawling lesson and lucy's "hello mr.....grandma." way to go on your 5K! that makes me proud. and tired. glad i got to enjoy your parents, too. kind of made home feel closer. :)

Every story has a beginning...

Joey and Katie first met in Mr. Hawkes 3rd grade class at Valley Elementary. They became good friends in Jr. High and best friends in High School. Katie wrote to Joey on his mission in Tiajuana and Joey wrote to Katie later on her mission in Tokyo. Years later at the ripe old age of 25, these best friends finally fell in love... or maybe just realized they were already in love. They got married on January 22, 2004.

happy kids

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