For Sadie's birthday, my Mom and I wanted to surprise her for a visit to their new home in Kansas (although the kids insist they don't LIVE there, they're just RENTING :) We flew in late Thursday night and Steve and Amber picked us up from the airport, assuring us that the kids knew nothing of our visit...just as we had hoped :) They gave us their master bedroom, and informed us that Wyatt might be dropping by, his habit lately is to crawl into their bed several times a night....Steve said he'd already done it twice before 11pm that night. Sure enough, about 1:30, he shows up on my side of the bed. I say, "hi,
Wy. It's Mellie." He climbs up and snuggles in between Grandma and I. He sleeps like Sid the sloth, so we didn't get much sleep, with all of his wiggling. My Mom told me the next morning she hadn't heard him come in and thought
I was the restless sleeper! His face was priceless when he woke up and saw Aunt Mellie and Grandma where his parents were supposed to be...he just kept looking back and forth and rubbing his eyes! Just about then, I heard Steve and Amber talking to Sadie in the hall...asking if she got everything she wanted for her birthday. She said, "Yeah. But Mellie's present didn't come and she said it would be here on Thursday!" He replied that she better check out his room and they opened the door to me and Grandma doing, "SURPRISE!!!" Another priceless expression as she jumped up and down and ran to hug us. And of course, Christian was totally cool and easy-going about the whole thing. "Oh, Mellie and Grandma in the bed?
Ok.
Whatevs." (I'm sure that's what he was thinking :)
So, here are some random pics from the weekend--we mostly spent our time just hanging out, wrestling (Wyatt kept begging for more!), snuggling, playing games, and a little shopping and
site seeing:)
Grandpa Mel sent balloons for the kids--they absolutely loved them. It broke my heart, though, when Christian couldn't blow one up! He would huff and puff and shake with the effort, then, with a defeated look on his face, he'd bring the totally soggy balloon to me and say "Blow it, please". Killed me!
Grandma brought a Siamese cat for Christian and a horse for Wyatt (cause he's addicted to horses), but Wyatt fell in love with the kitten, and it never left his clutches all weekend. He kept calling it a Chihuahua. Hmmm.
Sadie loved her new makeup, which she immediately put on, using her Caboodle mirror (she's turned into such a girl!) while Ruby climbed over everything and everybody to get to the stretchy spiders!
Where she immediately tested the strength of said stretchy spiders!
Chihuahua, Horse and Hippo. Wyatt is most happy when surrounded by his animals, as evidenced by his cheesy grin!
All clean! I love those two tiny teeth!
Telling bedtime stories to Sadie and Wyatt...yes, I did climb up her ladder to her super high bed, where I couldn't even sit up straight on! And yes, that's the ceiling fan above her head. She's rocks that bunk!
Grandma Rosemary and the bed-jumpers.
Getting ready to go to a marble factory and to Liberty Jail in Missouri.
I absolutely LOVE this shot of Christian giving loves to Grandma. He's just so stinking sweet!
Chrisch and Sadie jammy-snuggling watching Curious George's Christmas...a gift from Grandma that Chrisch went nuts over!
Sadie had to spread the joy of makeup with Grandma...giving her a makeover, complete with painted nails, sparkly eyeshadow and lip gloss :) Like I said, total girl!
This kiddo likes to sit next to-slash-on top of his movie buddies...and don't we love it!
See what I mean?! This was the night I must have been made of Velcro, cause neither Chrisch nor Wyatt could stop from jumping on me. Don't think I didn't love it, cause I most certainly did!
Sadie Mae helping her Grandma do dishes. She's such a sweetheart!
During my princess makeover on the bunk!
Playing Candy Land!
I've seen this look before on Ruby's big sister...isn't she precious?? This dress was made by a friend of mine from work, and it was fun to see it on her (Sadie has a twin one in the next pic)
Miss Weasel-pants, my best friend!
Me, Amy, Jenn and Amber...I didn't get the memo that we weren't posing "sassy"...
The impromptu photo shoot started because I wasn't willing to leave this beautiful bridge without at least a few pictures taken there! Amy, Jenn and I started it, then noticed that Steve and Amber's car was still in the parking lot a hundred yards away, so we waved her over as well! That's just called taking advantage of a gorgeous setting!
A little sass, just cause we can!
We had fun, laughing the whole time--I don't think they believed we were really going to TOUCH the frozen bridge metal...but I was seriously focused on doing just that!
...and here we are, bravely snuggling with the frigid metal!
...then we had to snuggle with each other to warm up!
Oh yeah, we went ahead and climbed on up...then straddled it for good measure! Totally worth it, I think, cause it's such a fun pose!
And it was hysterically funny trying to hold each other up there!
I wish all my sisters had been there to play with us! I'm SO grateful for each of my sisters, who build me up and love me just the way I am!
