Family Weekend

We have a nice weekend coming up, in fact it has already started. Our daughter, Dawn and her family arrived about noon today, to spend the weekend. Bob and I have had a fun evening with our granddaughter. We ordered pizza and let her choose ½ of the pizza, with the toppings she likes. She and I played “store”, a nice change from “school” that she usually wants to play. I have a big basket that I always get out for her that has lots of stuff in, and she wanted to pretend she was shopping with the things. Bob and son in-law Bob, played golf, and the kids and Dawn met me for lunch downtown, as I was too busy this week to take the afternoon off. My co/workers get a kick out of seeing them when they stop in. Our grandson, 16, gave his Mom a hard time arguing that he should be able to drive while here, and she didn’t want him to, because the traffic was pretty bad downtown, as it’s “Grandma’s Marathon” weekend, so lots of people coming into downtown. It was a “stand-off” for a while, but she won.

Can’t believe how big both grandchildren are getting. Madelyn especially looks so much older every time I see her. She will be 6 in August.

Skylar and Rob went grocery shopping to buy ingredients for a salad that Rob wanted to make to take to his work on Monday for a pot luck. It’s one that needs to be marinated, and he used half the ingredients for salad to have for us with our supper tomorrow night, and then he’ll make it again on Sunday for Monday. The two of them had fun cutting up into small pieces lots of kinds of peppers, mushrooms, etc. for the salad.

Dawn and Bob are spending the evening with one of Dawn’s best friends from high school, her and her husband are visiting from Florida. They are down at the Grandma’s Marathon festivities at Canal Park. Tomorrow morning, Dawn is planning to go work out at the fitness center with her Dad. Then us girls will be going to a baby shower, then tomorrow evening we will celebrate hers and her husband’s birthdays. Madelyn fell asleep on the sofa, soon after getting into her pj’s. Bob has fallen asleep watching tv, and I’m now writing.

Missing from our birthday celebration will be our youngest son and his girl. They are in North Dakota for a wedding this weekend, he is the "Best Man" at his close friend's wedding.

It’s always so good to have the family together from out of town. It will be a fun weekend.