Grandma T and Grandpa Joel's Visit

Matt has to work nights all month which is pretty much a bummer.  When I found out his parents were coming to visit I was so excited!!  We would have fun stuff to do while Matt slept the day away!

Here's the Breakdown:

Monday:

I went on a Nazi cleaning spree, getting every nook and cranny ready for the impending visit.  The kids HATED me that day.  I probably broke tons of child labor laws.  When I got the text, "The Dicksons have landed" from Matt's parents I told the kids they were on the way.  The kids sat out on our porch in the cold for over an hour waiting for them to arrive (they went to the hotel to check in first).  The were so excited.  When the Mint Green Bullet (their tiny rental car) pulled into our driveway the kids went into a confused frenzy.  They know they aren't allowed to leave the porch (we live on a very large and busy street) but they wanted to hug attack Grandma and Grandpa so bad.  Corr was jumping up and down and asked if he could go on the grass to give them a hug.  They came in and got the house tour, ate some roast beef sandwiches and funeral potatoes and hung out for awhile.  Remi read us some scriptures before bed and off everyone went to sleep!

Tuesday:

As I'm writing I'm realizing how few pictures I took this week!!  Not that my picture are particularly fabulous by any means.  I sent Remi off to school and Corr and I took Grandma and Grandpa to this huge church that has a play place.  We played for awhile, went to Hobby Lobby, and Target.  They let Corr pick the lunch place so we ate at Steak N Shake, then went to get Remi from school. After school, we went to the hotel that had an indoor pool.  It ended up being the kids favorite thing all week.  We swam for a few hours.  The hotel even had free soda and popcorn!  Matt woke up and was able to see his parents for the first time since they got here and we ate some pizza from Matt's favorite place.

Wednesday:

We chose this as our "zoo day" because it had the best weather.  We spent ALL day at the zoo.  It was exhausting but so much fun.  We saw almost everything and played at both parks.  We ate a great lunch  and even got some more souvenir soda bottles!

Awesome me took a whopping FOUR zoo pictures.

In the aquarium part of the zoo.

Corr resembles his choice of marine life perfectly.

Remi stretching like the kangaroo.

This dude was napping.  I was pretty jealous.

After the zoo we headed back home to meet Matt for dinner at Five Guys.  Then we went to the hotel for some more swimming!  We then went home and passed out from exhaustion.

Thursday:

Since it was raining, we made this our COSI day!  We did the Adventure and had to figure out all of the clues and the code to unlock THE TREASURE OF KNOWLEDGE!  It was fun, especially when Grandpa Joel screamed like a girl when the stone statue came to life.  We ate lunch and explored the rest of the museum.  

Goggles are a MUST when playing with hazardous materials.

Someones head is a little too big...

Outside of COSI there were all these geese.  I told corr to go chase after them expecting that they would all dramatically run or fly away.

They did not.

They just moved to the side to let the psycho human run past them.

On Friday the G-Parents left for Kentucky, sad for us, good for Aunt Steph.

We had so much fun playing with them!

Thanks Grandpa Joel and Grandma T!!