A Week in Washington

We were planning on blessing Jayden last Sunday and as we were preparing to have a full house we got the news that Nathan’s Grandpa had passed away... So we ended up spending a week in Washington instead. Although we are sad that Grandpa Gilbert is gone and that we don’t get to see him anymore in this life we are glad that he is much happier and that he and his wife get to be together again.

Jayden got to meet some of Nathan’s family for the first time and Conner loved playing with his cousins Isak and Lucy. The weather was really nice while we were there so we spent lots of time outside. Conner LOVED playing on Nana’s swing set…

The teeter totter wasn’t as much fun because Conner was so light that he just stayed up in the air with Lucy on the ground.

Conner and Isak jumping on the trampoline with the sprinklers on underneath… clothes were optional.

We walked to the park and I convinced Nathan to carry Jayden using the wrap… he’s a daddy and proud of it! :)

The kids playing in Isak and Lucy’s awesome blow up pool…

Conner wouldn’t put the hose down the entire time and didn’t want to come inside even though he was so cold that he was shivering!

Afterwards the kids warmed up in the bath...

... and Lucy determined that the bubbles tasted delish. :)

Nathan took Conner out for a ride on Grandpa’s tractor and he thought that it was great! He had a huge grin on his face the entire ride!

We also took the kids out to see Grandpa’s cows. Conner loved the baby cows and would go from cow to cow holding out his hand and saying “lick Conner!” He would giggle every time he got licked and would get upset whenever a cow was too shy to come up to him.

Conner had such a great time that he is STILL talking about "Papa's cows!"

One night we convinced the grandparents to watch our kids so that we all could go out on a date. We went out to dinner and saw the new X Men... which was very good by the way! We had so much fun hanging out with everyone!

Besides that we stayed up way too late every night playing kinnect, watching movies, and just hanging out! Although it wasn't the best of circumstances we loved seeing everyone and were glad that we were able to stay for as long as we did!