So...Granny and Grandpa Henriksen(Jason's mum and dad) came down from Washington state for a visit. We haven't seen them since last April when we went to visit them. So we wanted to do a couple of things while they were here and then spend the rest of the time at the house. Mom and Dad H flew in Tuesday afternoon and so we stayed home and that gave the kids a chance to warm up to them. Henry showed off in the bathtub and practically flooded the bathroom with his splashing! Emma helped of course! Wednesday, it rained/stormed most of the day so we decided to stay home that day. So we played here at the house and planned the rest of their stay. Thursday we went to get Henry and Emma's pictures taken at Target and that went a bit longer than what we thought it would. I had not made an appointment so we spent about 3 hours total at Target Thursday morning. We had fun though! We just walked the aisles slowly, talked, had a snack at the little food/snack place there and then waited for our turn for pictures. Overall the kids did really well. Emma had a lot of fun posing for the camera. Henry, on the otherhand, did not...at least not until we were almost done. Mamma and Granny handled that part while Grandpa and Daddy waited outside the studio. The pictures turned out really cute!!! We thought that the kids would go down for a nap, but it seems only a little sleep happened. Emma ended up falling asleep at the dinner table that night. It was really sweet. She kept on nodding off. And Friday we went to the Fort Worth Zoo. The weather was ok-no rain, but if it was any warmer it would have been a little too warm for us. We were kind of surprised at how busy the zoo was, but we chose to go on the same day about 5 or 6 of the school districts in our area decided to do an end of the year fieldtrip. So we hit the payment running. We aren't really big crowd people. We made it through the entire zoo in about 3 hours-not bad.The kids did really well. Emma was really interested in seeing the animals we've seen in the books at home, but Henry was more interesed in all of the kids and people running around, but he did look whenever we'd stop to look. We finished up at the zoo and headed home early in the afternoon, got the kids down for a nap, and relaxed and cooled off for the remainder of the afternoon. That evening we met up with my parents for dinner and had our own little early Happy Mother's Day celebration. The kids were great-well behaved, ate well, and didn't make a huge mess. We went back to our house and let the kids run around, got them to bed, and all the big kids visited for a little while. It was a nice night. Granny and Grandpa headed up to Oklahoma for a couple of days to visit Jason's younger sister and her husband and will come back before they fly out Tuesday night. So the time has flown by-we never seem to have enough time together, but we've loved every minute of their visit. We're hoping to go up for a visit later in the summer or be up there for Christmas this year. I've got more pictures to share and plan on taking more before they do leave for home so I'll post those later this upcoming week.
And to all the moms out there in blogland....
Happy Mother's Day!!!
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