Nana Diane and Grandpa Scott's Visit

For the last week we have had the opportunity to have Jared's parents in town. They as well as all grandparents will tell you they came to visit all of us, but I am pretty sure they were most excited to see little LJ. But that is understandable how can you not be excited to see a little girl with this much attitude?

Lenna loved having them at her house. She had a hard time focusing to eat for the first couple of days because she was just so excited to see them.We went on adventures. The first adventure we went on was to Kingston to get crepes! The ferry ride was fun and the crepes were yummy as usual!Lenna especially enjoyed spending time with her daddy! She loves when she gets to play with her dad.The next day was Thanksgiving and our friends were kind enough to have all of us over. We also got a quick family picture. The next morning I spent decorating for Christmas. I wanted to see Lenna's reaction so I video recorded as you have previously seen in an earlier post. However, I include the picture below because basically for the last week my camera has been dormant because I dislike it when people take these types of pictures. So my mind set is I will just let grandpa Scott take all the pictures so he can manage to get pictures of Lenna and not pictures of me taking pictures of Lenna. PS Thanks for the sharing your pictures with us Nana Diane and Grandpa Scott.Friday and Saturday we had great plans of doing fun and exciting things in between Lenna's naps of course, but it didn't work out like that. Jared started working at 6:20am Friday morning and basically never stopped till 11pm that night. So we enjoyed watching Lenna play with her favorite toys, and went on a walk around the neighborhood. One of her favorites right now is shoes laces.We also made sure Lenna was well fed. She loves her cheerios!In the afternoon to get out of the house we (being everyone but Jared) piled into Rhino and went on a drive. We drove by Golden Gardens, the Locks, Magnolia, and then over to West Seattle. It was fun to go on a drive. However I think the funnest part of the day was watching Lenna try and figure out how to move. She has gotten the sitting up trick down and she is now trying to figure out how to move. Still no crawling yet but she is trying really hard.

The next morning was Saturday we had the opportunity to take Lenna over to the hotel Jared's parents were staying at so she could go swimming. She loved it! It was fun to see her so happy and to be splashing around.Then Jared continued to work. Did I mention that Jared worked a lot this weekend?To pass the time we played Dr. Mario on the Wii and played with Lenna. We also made a Costco run because Costco is the best place to go whenever you need to get out of the house. We got some shrimp and I made shrimp scampi for the very first time ever on Sunday. But I also learned that if you shell shrimp take it to the garbage can immediately! Wowzers did our junk room stink of shrimp this morning!

Here is a shot of Lenna enjoying the Christmas tree ornaments. She likes to look at the lights and gets all excited when someone turns them on.Sunday we all relaxed at home well all of us but Jared because he was working at work. Which was sad because not only did he have to work all weekend but he missed hanging out with Lenna and his parents. Hopefully next time Nana Diane and Grandpa Scott come to visit Jared won't have to work so much.

Like all good things grandparent time had to come to and end and we dropped off Nana Diane and Grandpa Scott at the airport today. It was fun to have you guys up and we look forward to you coming to visit again!