The Rest of Mom's Visit

Mom spent her whole week off with us, as she often does over Easter. I love having her.

Going for a hike around Chemainus Lake

These two played this crazy game the whole walk - I have no idea what the rules were, but they loved it. It really does amaze me the energy and love my mom pours out onto Quinny. It was funny to watch them

Teaching her about trees. Her tree knowledge is actually quite impressive because she retains all this information that he tells her. The problem is when she asks me a question and I'm all like "well, ask your dad because I know zero things about trees, outside of the fact that they are brown and green!" haha!!

"Hiding" from us, disguising themselves as trees. Goofballs!

Family games!

Helping Grandma bake cookies!

Grandma Gladys made Quinny this new blanket that is for her babies. It's so soft and cozy, which is why she wanted to cuddle up in it haha!

I had to work on Tuesday of her visit, and so did Jon and mom was eager to help us. It is REALLY nice to not have to frantically call around to people in our community to see who can help us. I LOVE HAVING FAMILY AROUND! So they hung out all day, and mom made lasagna! She knows that her lasagna is my favorite meal that she makes, so I was so touched that she did that! Yumm! We sent a picture to Brandon to tell him that we wished he was there too!

Playing outside with Cooper! This spring, she has made friends with the kids who live across the street, and they are so cute together!!! Cooper is in grade 1 and Abby is in grade 3, so they are a bit older than she is, but they love her and are so good with her! They come over and knock on the door and then play outside together for hours. It's so cute!

I also love this part of having my mom around - Quinny gets to show off her skills!! It's fun for her to have someone other than me to watch - she got out and right away was talking a mile a minute, asking Grandma if she this or that... I love that.

Because I am a crazy mom, I let her try out the new Unicorn Frapp that was all the rage this spring. She loved it, especially the blue sour parts. I thought it was so gross haha

Last night of her visit, and we decided to open the date package for that month from Jenna's big box. It was a secret ingredient Chef competition! So fun! Our ingredient was BBQ and we gave each other ten minutes and a budget to shop for dinner and we would each make our own and Mom and Q would judge.

My appy! They loved it.

Q had dance right before dinner, so we each let ours marinade, and went to drop her off. Since its closed classes, we decided to go to Riot Brewing for the 45 minutes. Beer (root beer for me haha) and crib! They have games at the table to play as your drink your samples. Amazing!

And Jon's dinner won. Bacon wrapped chicken, stuffed with cheese, and marinaded in a BBQ sauce

Mine was homemade Honey BBQ chicken wings. Delicious, but not as good as his. This was a fun date idea! Thanks Jenna!

Mom left and we all cried (well not Jon, but the rest of us did). I hate leaving day! She brings so much life to our house when she's here, and it makes me sad when I think about how far away we are.  Visits like these make it hard for me, because I wish we lived closer, and it makes me dream of moving back home to where my family is. Doing life without family is so hard sometimes! But I know that once we get back into the swing of our day to day grind, those feelings pass, and I do love our life here.  I just really miss my mom.