It's All Relative

The day FINALLY arrived.  I (along with Addison, Jonas, and Brooklyn) FINALLY got to meet this woman!

Grandma Parr!  I've heard so many things about her and we were (and still are) planning a trip to see them this Fall in Illinois.  We were just lucky to get to see them sooner than later!

Addison didn't take long warming up to her.  She spent most of her time sitting next to her and visiting and playing with toys.  She's such a fun and loving Grandma.

We were even lucky enough to meet Aunt Ann & Uncle Roger.  They were even better than I had imagined in my mind from all the stories.  Uncle Roger was happy to show the kiddos some amazing magic tricks and Aunt Ann was happy to entertain and cuddle them too. 

We got even more lucky.  Mark & Maren and their brood came down for the special occasion so we even got to visit MORE family!  Brooklyn didn't take much time to warm up to Uncle Mark.  Ethan didn't take much time to show us his cool new sword he got for his birthday too!

John giving his Grandma some good cuddles.

Our whole family with the Grandmas.  Grandma Parr & Grandma Jean.  Love this picture!

We invited ourselves over for two visits since they were here for the weekend.  It gave us a great opportunity to get some more bonding time in.  The kiddos loved it. 

Brooklyn spent her time showing off her mad crawling skills.  She was definitely a fan of Grandma Parr & Aunt Ann.  Grandma Parr was quite amazed at her level of chunkiness!  ;)

Jonas had some bonding time with Aunt Anne.  She was so patient with him while he kept trying to communicate what exactly he wanted and then she would wait on him hand and foot.  She was so sweet to all of them.

I'll be honest, in preparation for meeting Grandma Parr, I was convinced she would be a feeble old lady who just sat there while we yelled in her ear what we wanted to say.  She's 94 folks!  However, I couldn't be MORE wrong.  She's a spitfire and quite spunky!  She was more mobile than the rest of us!  It's easy to see why she's in such great shape and just so alert.  She easily wore me out.  We are very excited to go visit them in the Fall and catch up on some more memories.