Nana and Papa Visit

Nana and Papa game the Day after Christmas and the kids where very excited. Even though they couldn't stay as long as we thought they would we still had got to do a lot of fun stuff with them. As soon as they got here Gracie had to take Nana up to her room and show her every single thing. They where upstairs I would say for a good two hours.
Saturday morning we tried to go to our normal bowling ally in Gilbert but it was super crowed so we came to one in Mesa and the kids had a blast. Gracie is a great little bowler especially when Papa Bird helps her out.

Cameron turned out to be a pretty good little bowler. Ryan and Gracie sat watching everyone bowl.

Bowling took it out of Gracie. She fell asleep and hard we played with her a little bit trying to get her to wake up since by this time it was getting later in the day and we still wanted to go to the Temple lights.

 

She finally did wake up but as you can see by this picture she wasn't thrilled with it.

 

Mommy Nana and Gracie at the Temple Lights

 

Even if it was just mommy and Gracie she doesn't really want to smile or admit she liked being at the Temple lights.

 She did get a lot happier when she asked daddy if we could go to Zoyo and he took us. It was cold outside but really its never to cold for ice cream is it?

 Blaine is going to hate that this picture ended up on the blog but I had to. Nana started taking picutres at Zoyo and got some good ones.

 Ryan loves Zoyo and and was happy to be sharing it with Nana.

You can see that these kids had fun with Papa

You can kind of see the garbage can behind my dad. He was pretending to pick up Cameron and Grace and throw them head first in the garbage can. You can see that Cameron was really worried about that right. 

Before church we headed to Grandma Matthews house to pick fruit for Nana and Papa to take to Texas and then home with them. They didn't bring church clothes so they went to Grandma Birds until we got out of church then we went out to say our goodbyes.  Gracie was sick the Sunday before Christmas so she didn't get a chance to ware her Christmas dress.

After church we made it out to Grandma Birds to hang out with Nana and Papa until they had to start heading for Texas.

Cameron had been quite all day and when we got to Grandmas I figured it out. He was sad that Nana and Papa had to leave. He really clicked with Papa this trip and really didn't want him to leave.

My little man hanging out with Papa I kept trying to get him to smile but he wouldn't for me however papa new the button to push to get a smile out of him.

 Cameron was giving hugs and kisses goodbye.

This picture makes me cry. After hugs and kisses where given Nana and Papa went outside. Daddy, Ryan, Grace and Grandma Bird all went outside I started to walk outside when I turned around to see this little boy completely loose it and in turn making me cry as well. I have gotten a lot better over the years to not cry when my dad leaves however seeing my little boys heart breaking just made me so sad.  Talk about the difference in kids Ryan came back inside asking why Cameron was crying. I told him it was because he was sad that Nana and Papa had to leave. Ryan in his matter of fact way of talking said well they said they had to leave at 5:00 and its after 5:00.  I promised Cameron that after Nana and Papa move into their new house that we would have to drive to Colorado to see it. It made him a little happier but it was still a very sad night.