Amdanda's Visit!

My wonderful sister in law, Amanda, came to visit.  

This visit was extra special because she came to see just us & to meet our cute Callen!  

Usually there is a family vacation planned, a reunion, a wedding, general conference, or other family members here to visit. But this time, it was all US. 

And I couldn't be happier. 

We had so much fun just hanging out, snuggling on Callen, playing with the boys, freezing in the snow (since it decided to DUMP on us while she was here), watching movies, having a girl's day of shopping and fun, painting toes, making smoothies, talking, laughing, and loving being together. 

I love this girl.

More than I could ever say.

Thank you for coming to visit.  I miss you. SO. MUCH.

Sadly, I didn't pull out my camera the whole trip. 

But we had a blast.  

I know that without many pictures to show for it! :)

Texas Visitors

August 8-11th

Oh my goodness, where do I even start with this trip?!  

Our first visitors in our new home were Uncle Guy & Aunt Sharon and Grandpa Joe & Grandma Dean. 

They all drove up from Texas to see us. US.  We are the only ones left of the Texas Drysdale boys. (sad, but true. oh how we miss our brothers/sisters/aunts/uncles/cousins)

We felt so special to have them make this long trip just for us. SO.SPECIAL.

And my oh my was it a fantastic few days. We packed so much fun into our time with them.

I didn't take pictures of everything, but here's  recap of what we fit in:  a picnic at the park, snow cones, garage sale finds, antique store in town, hotel swimming, IKEA (so fun, see pics below!), date night with the adults, dinner out with the kiddos, and lots of talking and visiting. 

We just loved it so much and truly felt very loved and way too spoiled!

We were able to go swimming at the hotel where they stayed.  

Cute cute boys:

This was my first time swimming since having the baby...so nice to get in a pool again!!!

I love this crazy family of mine:

 Our lovely audience:  

Grandpa, Uncle Bob, Grandma Dean, & Aunt Susie. Love them!

Aunt Sharon was so happy to hold Cal:

Uncle Guy & Aunt Sharon:

We made sure to line up a sitter so we could go out with the adults. We planned on dinner and then were having so much fun (and Callen was doing awesome) so we decided to go to a movie too! (Thank you to our awesome sitter, we love her!)

Brick Oven + the Bourne Legacy + wonderful family and a hot date= best night!!!!

It was so awesome having so much time to visit and get to know this awesome lady.

I absolutely adore her and simply LOVE her to pieces!!!

Love love love Grandp & Grandma:

Uncle Guy & Aunt Sharon rock:

Bob & Susie are so amazing:

We introduced them to Oldify & Fatify. Funnies afternoon ever!

Ryder fell in love with Grandpa. He cried and cried when he left. It was so sweet to see them hanging out and having fun together. Our rambunctious little guy loved to sit on Grandpa's lap:

Ryder NEVER falls asleep with us. (I was a little jealous!) But really it was so neat to see how much he loved his Grandpa Joe:

The boys had a great time putting together paper airplanes with Grandma Dean:

Meeting sweet little Callen:

What's a trip without a little project to keep us busy?! Once Sharon heard about our 'sort of' plans for the mudroom, she set to work and made it happen. It was fun to design the space and get it functional!!  We are LOVING our cabinets and bench...and are finishing it up soon so we can post pictures!

a big Huge THANK YOU Guy & Sharon!

Oh my goodness, I know for a fact that I have never seen Uncle Guy run so fast in my life. It was HILARIOUS.  He chased the boys around and around (the mudroom forms a little hallway that you can go through on this side and then out the other end and back around...boys love it!) The boys had a blast with him! 

THANK YOU so much for coming to visit us. 

We absolutely LOVED our time with you and feel so honored that you came out just for us. 

We love you!

Grandma's Visit!!!

The first few weeks of Callen's life were pretty quiet. We hung out at home a lot and tried to get used to life with a fourth baby.  Shawn was our only family member around who came to see the baby and so it was kind of different. I've been really lucky with my other kiddos and had my mom there right away to help out. So it was a little tricky learning to balance everything.

Jeff's mom had scheduled her visit to be a few days after my mom left. Since my mom wasn't able to come, we were MORE than ready for some help by the time Jeanne got here!!!  

We had such an incredible week and a half with her here.  She spoiled ALL of us by playing with the boys constantly, letting me sleep in, and holding Callen in any of the downtime when she wasn't with the other boys.

It was so fun to have her here and to get to share our sweet Callen with family.  I didn't realize, until this time, how special it really is to have family around to hold and snuggle and show off our little man. 

We took Mom & the boys to 7peaks, it's always a blast. So fun, in fact, that I hardly took any photos:

We also took the boys to the Splash Pad while Mom was here to help out. And of course the splash pad fun always ends with time at the park:

Mom had come with some fun activities for the boys. They had lots of coloring and art/craft time with her:

On Weston's birthday we took him to get ice cream in the morning. (his party was later that afternoon)

Jeff had a full week in the daytime and then tried to spend some evenings with us:

We went to this darling little park in Provo that the boys LOVED:

And of course, Mom tried to get in as much snuggling and cuddling with this little guy that she could:

Thanks for the WONDERFUL week, mom!!!  We had so much fun!