A Visit From Grandma

Well, like I said in my last post, my mom came to visit us the first week in September. It was so great to have her here. The last time I had seen her was when Jacob was born (around Christmas last year). So it was fun to have her see how much the boys had changed since then, and just have time to visit with her.

If my mom took one of those Love Languages test her love language would be giving gifts. She sure does love to spoil us! She arrived with a whole bunch of cash and ideas on how to spend it. She bought Jacob a new car seat (he has just about outgrown his infant car seat), some clothes for the boys, and even some clothes for me. We were spoiled! It was fun to go shopping with her. We actually even scored a free video monitor for Alexander's room, when she bought the car seat for us. Anyway, she spoiled us tons.

The first day she was here, we decided to go to Lagoon! We had wanted to go to Lagoon for Alexander's birthday, but we couldn't get discounted tickets on the weekend of his birthday. Since my mom was coming for a visit a few weeks later, we just decided to wait until she came. For those of you who don't know, Lagoon is like a theme park that we have here in Utah. It has lots of roller coasters and carnival rides, as well as a few fun kiddie rides too. I thought my mom would totally dig Lagoon, but I think most of the rides scared her. I had forgotten that she has a fear of heights. She even got super scared riding on the ski lift. She mostly just helped watch Jacob for us when we went on scarier rides. Scott did manage to get her to ride on a kiddie ride with him and she loved it! It was fun spending the day at Lagoon though. Alexander seemed to have a blast! He had a ton of fun on all the car/boat/helicopter like kiddie rides. It sure was a fun extension of his birthday. Below are some fun pictures from our time at Lagoon:

Let's see, what else did we do while my mom was here? Oh yeah! We scrap booked! My mom has been talking about making a scrapbook for my brother for a few years now. She always seemed overwhelmed by the idea. So near the end of her trip, we spent two nights scrap booking. It was exhausting and fun all at the same time. We created a scrap book with 32 pages in only two nights. It turned out really cute and he really liked it too!

Well, I think that about wraps up the visit with my mom. Just a few weeks after my mom visited, my Aunt Debbie came to visit. So the next post will be about that. Tune in next time with "Fun with Aunt Debbie!"