Mom and Dad Came

My mom and dad came to visit the week of Thanksgiving and we were so glad they did!! We started their trip bright and early to pick them up at the airport at 6 am. They had taken the red-eye flight and I'm pretty sure they were pretty tired but they let us cart them around all morning anyway. We stopped at McDonald's for breakfast, then headed to Lowe's for their kids workshop.

 The kids made sleighs (well, let's be honest- the adults did ;) ), and then they had a bunch of Christmas activities going on in the greenhouse.  Santa was there, but he was right next to a coi pond, which was way more interesting.

I thought it was brilliant they had him on a bench so timid kids could sit next to him instead of on his lap, but Marissa wasn't buying it.

Shane was a little friendlier once the candy came out...

We had a fun week and took them to the children's museum, 

and to Frankenmuth to go to Bronners, the world's biggest Christmas store,

and then of course we had to walk through town and get some fudge :) 

Grandma even got to go with Shane to his Thanksgiving Feast at preschool. 

 But the best part was just hanging out with them

 

and having someone to help read some of the millions of books we go through around here!

 It was the last week of Josh's away rotations and they couldn't have come at a better time, I was so done with being alone with the kids, and apparently so were the kids!  They were so excited to have their grandparents here, and I got a good idea of how Shane had been feeling when my parents went for a walk the first day while Marissa was napping and when Shane realized it he asked where they were and said dramatically, "We can't be alone AGAIN!!"