Grandpa's visit!

My dad got to join in on the fun for about 6 days.  He got into town on Friday, August 1st and the kids were excited to finally have him here and we were excited for him to meet Kaley.  The first time he held her she was a little fussy and then instantly cuddled up and fell asleep... so sweet.  We got to do a lot of fun things while he was here.  He took the kids to see the new Planes movie, he and Steve went to the movies, and Steve, him and my mom went to a movie... can you tell he likes to go to the movies??

On Saturday, the 2nd, we went to Ammon Days, a fun community event put on by the city of Ammon.   They have breakfast, lunch, talent shows, vendors, booths, a car show, snow cones, cotton candy, popcorn and fun activities all day and everything is free!  So much fun!  One of the cool things we got to do was that Steve, my Dad, Preston and I got to go up on the bucket of a ladder fire truck.  We had to wait a long time, but how cool is that!?!  It went really high and I was so proud of Preston, he was so brave and wasn't nervous at all.

After the weekend the weather turned rainy for the next 3 days.  I felt bad that it was crappy weather while my dad was here but par for the course for Idaho.  My parents wanted to take the big kids on an adventure on Monday... they had wanted to drive to the Teton mountains but with the weather they decided to go to Craters of the Moon instead.  Preston loved that they were old volcanoes and learning all about the lava rock and such.  I'm glad they had fun even with the rain.

 More fun times...

Baby Sprite!!

Grandma was on book reading duty every single night she was here.  They loved for her to read to them!

We had to say goodbye to both my parents on Thursday, August 7th.  My mom had been here for 4 weeks (!!!) and it was still very hard to say goodbye.  We loved, loved having her here for so long and having my dad visit.  I'm so glad they got to have so much quality time with us and the kids, makes it a little easier to be so far apart.  I hate being so far from family!  Not only that, but it meant that I'd have to face real life of taking care of 3 kids without an extra adult around... yikes!