Family weekend...

With Preston's baptism we got to have a quick super family weekend.  My parents flew in Thursday night (Dec. 8th) at about 7:30pm.  We were thankful they got in on time with the weather really starting to turn south and just yucky.  We got to hang out a bit that night and then the next day my dad and I got to take Abby to gymnastics so that my dad could see her.  Then after my parents took all three bigger kids to Walmart my dad took Preston and Abby to the movies to see Moana.  Later that afternoon I had to run to Sams Club  and Winco and thankfully my parents stayed with the kiddos so I could do it a lot quicker.

Steve's family traveled from Nebraska on Thursday, Dec. 8th.  They had to drive 2 hours to Omaha and were delayed there 3 hours which made them miss their connection in Denver and have to get a much later one.  They arrived in Salt Lake City at about midnight!  They stayed there for the night and the next day got a late start and did some shopping and of course hit bad weather and didn't get here until about 6pm!  They were exhausted!!  Once again, so grateful for the effort that our families had to put in just to get here to be a part of Preston's baptism.  All of us hung out that night and did some prep work for the next day.

After the baptism and luncheon were pretty much done we again got to hang out and relax.  The kids played and played, some went shopping, we had pizza and played some Uno.  It was a really great day!

Steve's mom gave us these adorable Christmas outfits!  She told me that these were the very first thing she had bought for them after finding out these girls were on the way (in the after Christmas sales of last year). I thought that was so sweet!

My mom had to get in on this adorable action! Riley on the left, Maddie on the right.

Babies!

On Sunday we hung out for a bit that morning, had leftover sandwiches (we had tons leftover!) for lunch and headed to church at 1pm, just for sacrament meeting.  It was great to go with both sets of parents!  My parents finished getting ready and I drove them to the airport that afternoon.  Later, Preston, Abby and Tyson got to go with Grammy and Papa to their hotel to go swimming which they loved!  We relaxed the rest of the night and let the kids play their hearts out.  We had to say goodbye to Steve's family that night when they went back to the hotel.  Always hard to say goodbye.

Monday morning was rough!  All of our families were gone, we were all exhausted from our whirlwind weekend and it was back to work and school for Steve and the kids.

I was worried how the weekend would go with both of our families and being a hostess to everyone but it went even better than I had expected and I was so pleased.  My heart was full of gratitude for these amazing families we have been blessed with.