Visitors and more!

The last time I posted, I wrote that we were getting some very special visitors. Hard to believe they've already come and gone! We had the very best time having my parents, sister and niece here last week! It was hard to see them go for sure, but we're so thankful that they were here. Here's a little rundown of what we did!

Ivy and I picked everyone up at the airport around 11:00am on Thursday. It was so fun for Ivy to get to run to Grandma and Grandpa! She was headed straight for my mom and then saw she was holding baby Quinn so she veered off without missing a step right into Grandpa's arms. We barely got everything into the car because I shipped a bunch of stuff to my parents to have them bring for us:)



The rest of the day was spent getting everyone settled, showing them around the house, picking up kids from school, and catching up! We loved spending some extra time with Quinn. She is changing so much these days. The kids (mostly the girls) loved holding her, helping with her, etc.



Chris flew in Friday from a work trip so he met us and the kids for lunch and then took my dad around the factory to show him what he has been up to for the last 6 months. Friday after school Mya had gymnastics so we took turns watching her and then had a nice evening of pizza, wine and cards!



Saturday we did some shopping with Q while my dad, Chris and the kids went for a bike ride to their favorite store (Macs) and then to the park to drink their slurpies! We watched some of the Iowa/Iowa State game and then went to another park to let the kids burn off a little more energy! Saturday night we just hung out, ate dinner and played more cards!



Sunday morning Chris and I played tennis with my dad and we had to say good-bye to my parents who had to be back for work on Monday morning. It will be hard to say bye every time, but this time was especially hard because of Quinn. They are so thankful they got to spend so many weeks with her, but that makes it even tougher to say goodbye! Thankfully, my parents had an easy time getting home. They left Edmonton at 3:30 central time, flew into Minneapolis and were home to Decorah by 8:30. Not bad! Too bad the flights are so dang expensive or we would be seeing grandparents once a month!

Tara left on Wednesday so the next few days were spent doing a few things around here (Tara is the purge queen so she helped me out with some stuff that should have been done before we moved here, going for walks, and spoiling Quinn! Wednesday morning Chris stayed home from work to help with the kids and getting Tara all packed up and to the airport. Around 8am he took Max and Mya to school (normally a 10 min drive in the morning) and at 8:20 he called and said he was barely out of our neighborhood. Apparently there was a terrible accident and it had traffic backed up all over the city. So he plugged along and at 9:15 when he wasn't even close to being at school, he turned around an came home with the kids. We didn't think he could make it to school and back home in time to take Tara to the airport. I could have taken her in Chris's car, but the car seat and stroller were with him! Thankfully, we all got to the airport on time, Tara had smooth flights (she was a rockstar) I got the kids to school around 11:00 and the rest of the day went on without a problem. Tara made it home the next morning at 6am our time. She (Tara) slept 1 hour the entire trip, but gave Quinn an A+!