Surprise Guests, Parties and BIG TIME catch up

Happy Birthday to my cutie cute. 

Jeff celebrated his birthday, and we welcomed chocolate chocolate doughnuts for a cake! 

ARE YOU KIDDING!!>!>!>

My mom was coming to town, and surprised me by bringing my sister AUDREY from San Diego! 

She is as much like 'Glenda the Good Witch' as anyone I know! 

She is adored, liked, loved, helpful, happy, funny, fun and we LOVED her surprise, and cherished the time with her!  

What we do with grannie when she comes to town....clean clean clean. 

(and she says she doesn't mind my messy house.....) 

I organized a craft day @ my casa. 

Some of the girls that came! 

Super fun tradition to start. 

Love me my family! 

My kids LOVE stories from grannie, and can never get enough. 

Home made pasta, home made doughnuts, home made marinara, quite the birthday celebration for Jeff. 

This picture is every thing why I love Audrey.

We played games, ate way to much, watched movies, dined out....

just had way to much fun

Red Rock Amphitheater. 

Pizza @ our favorite Idaho Springs restaurant! 

The cutest pilgrim I have ever seen. 

Unfortunately when grannie came to town, we all got sick. 

She missed preschool, but was able to go to the program, in her beautiful Christmas dress made by grannie. ;) 

Moments I don't want to forget! 

Driving the 'bus' on the kitchen floor' and

Hanks obsession for all things fireman, pictured here. 

 These little cuties. They spend hours in these laundry bins. 

Book reading, and story telling. 

The making of the turkeys for Thanksgiving Feast. 

Our 'Stay Cation' 

we were desperate to have an adventure. 

So, we headed out to be tourists in Down Town denver. 

Rode the train down, 

toured the Firefighters Museum,  and finished the night with 

a pizza party and a movie. 

Phew. 

Bad chatch up, but someone had to do it. 

The jest of it, I am deeply in love with my family! 

Until next time. :)