Home Inspection and Surprise Visit

For those of you wanting an update on our foster care situation, we finally got our screen window fixed on Wednesday. 

Grig did a great job repairing it. It was looked awesome when he finished it. As soon as we put it back in the window, I sent in our checklist for the home inspection.

We've now been assigned a home inspector, and she's supposed to get in touch with us soon to schedule the home inspection. It's supposed to take a few hours to go through, so hopefully we can find a time that works for all of us.

We're waiting again, but this time it shouldn't be quite as long. I'll keep you updated. 

Yesterday, we got a surprise text from Grig's father. He's been on a trip delivering cattle for the past week or so. Last Friday, while we were on our anniversary date, he texted us and told us that he was in the area, but we weren't. We were sad to have missed him. 

We told him to drop by on his way back east, but he told us that the people he was with were planning on taking a different route and that he wouldn't be nearby. 

However, yesterday he informed us in that due to snow in the north, they were going to be passing nearby after all and he wanted to drop in to visit. That was pretty exciting. We haven't seen him in person for over a year, and he's never been to our new house. 

Grig was disappointed that he was going to be at work when his dad came by, but Kevin was pretty excited that he was going to see his grandpa. 

A little after 1:00 today, Kevin's grandfather dropped by 

Kevin was pretty excited. He drew a picture for his grandpa and waited at the window until he arrived. We fed him some food and then showed him around the property. He and Kevin had a great time smashing horse chestnuts and playing outside. 

Kevin was pretty excited to play tic tac toe with his grandpa. We'd learned how to play it at preschool the other day, and Kevin's been pretty excited about the game ever since.

After we came back inside, Kevin's grandpa began to teach him the finer points of the game. They had a really good time, and it was fun to watch them interact. It was really good to see Grig's dad. He's a great guy, and he loves his grandson a lot. 

Thanks for coming to visit, Grandpa! It was so much fun to see you!

Visiting Friends

Starting tomorrow and including next week, I'm going to go visit some friends that I haven't seen in a long time.

This weekend, I'm going to visit my friends that I met in Nauvoo, Illinois. This is probably the first group of friends I ever had. We're haven't seen each other in years, but in a friendship like this, it doesn't really matter. I'm super excited to go and see them and to catch up on their lives and what they've been up to.

Next weekend, I have a mission reunion on Friday, and then a mini companion reunion on Saturday. I'm excited for three of these events, and I'm grateful that everything is being held relatively close. I'm excited to see my mission president again, as well as friends that I made on the mission.

I just find it kind of ironic that after years of not seeing anyone, everyone decides to have get-togethers within the same couple of weeks. We should be okay money-wise, because there is another pay period starting next weekend.

I'm pretty grateful for these opportunities to see some friends of mine, and I'm grateful to a loving husband who is willing to travel with me to meet them. Grig is pretty awesome, and I really want those I love to get to know him too. I think they'll get along swimmingly.

General Conference for our church is also coming up. Next weekend is women's conference and the weekend after that the Brethren speak to us. I've been looking forward to this for months. It's one of my favorite weekends, because it is always a spiritual feast. I'm eager to know what the Brethren have to tell us.

Can't wait for them to meet this little guy!

It's more friends that I'm looking forward to seeing after what feels like a long time!

Living Far from Grandparents

This weekend, we are visiting my family. Grig is back to an almost normal work week, so he now works four days, and then gets three days off. We decided it was a good opportunity to go and visit my family since we haven't seen them in almost two months (except via skype).

Grig's family lives on the east coast. We are in the western United States. It is very hard to go and visit Kevin's paternal grandparents very often because we don't have much money or time. They have a similar problem, and though we try to skype at least once a week, it isn't the same.

I wonder sometimes if grandchildren who frequently skype think their grandparents think their grandparents live in the computer. It would be interesting to know what babies really think.

Anyway, we drove the three hours to visit my parents, and when we got there, we weren't sure how Kevin would react. It's been a while since he's seen them in person, after all. He's also a little sick, so that coupled with stranger-danger might make his wary of his extended family.

Our fears were unfounded. With typical Kevin-type acceptance, he quickly became comfortable with the real versions of one of his skype grandparents. He let them hold him and snuggle him.

We wish we could go visit the other grandparents on the east coast more, and we're trying to plan a trip there this summer. We had a great time last year, and Kevin should be even more interactive this year. Grig is excited to take him out into the woods.

We are so blessed to have wonderful grandparents for our son. We are sad that we can't visit more often, but we are grateful for modern technology that allows us to visit with them even when we are far away. I don't know if I'll post a video tomorrow.  We're kind of on vacation, so we'll see!

We love you all!