Thankful

We received the most wonderful surprise this Thanksgiving.  Mom + Bob were with us!  It was a whirlwind tour...they were with us less than 24 hours.  It was wonderful though.  The boys and I got up bright + early (at least by today's standards) Thanksgiving morning to pick them up at the airport.  

The boys quickly latched on to them.  It is like they knew they only had a short time and needed to soak it all in.  It was so cute how Milo walked up to my Mom with this book and said, "Read this."  He was so tickled!

I thought for sure Ian had fallen asleep because we didn't hear a peep out of him for a long time.  But nope, they were both awake and enjoying Santa Paws.  

My brother took some good photos of the grandkids + grandparents.  This was just one I took with my phone and jazzed up a bit with PicMonkey:)  So blessed.  

We enjoyed our holiday week and knew we had to make the most of Saturday night.  Movie night with popcorn - is there any other way to do it?  

Grandma left the boys with a holiday treat.  The melting snowman!  It is pretty cute.  I think we are going to make a mini album one (hopefully snowy) day soon.  

We took a mini road trip on Saturday.  A short drive to Ft. Collins.  The boys were so quiet in the back seat, so I turned around and this is what I found.  I wasn't sure whether it was cute or creepy.  Ha!  

Then we get to Once Upon A Child and Ian finds this...

it was our first negotiation:)  He + Milo had to share it and they had to pay for it from the money in their piggy banks.  He probably would have agreed to anything to get this Boba Fett helmet.  They did a pretty good job of sharing it.  Ian insisted on wearing it into all the stores we went into that day.  He was amazingly agreeable to my refusal to let him wear it during lunch.  

Monday was a short back to reality for us.  Casey went to work and Ian went to school, but later that night we had a puking preschooler on our hands:(  I kept both boys home with me on Tuesday.  Milo wanted to wear footie pj's like Ian and the only pair I could find were 18 months Christmas footie pj's from last Christmas...and they fit, perfectly!  Awesome.  

Ian was feeling better, but I still couldn't take him to day care.  We had a nice day of lounging in our pj's, watching movies, and naps.  Later in the day I went upstairs and found Ian had nicely hung their superhero capes on his dresser.  Does it get any cuter?

Name one thing that can top your sick day at home?  Daddy coming home from work with a huge cardboard box turned into playhouse!  It was an instant hit and hours of fun.  I am confident it is the only reason I got to sleep past 8 AM this morning.  Praise the almighty playhouse!