Labor Day Weekend

     So I know it's late in posting, but I did want to share our happenings over Labor Day weekend.  We had wanted to start the tradition of taking a mini family vacation over the weekend, but we opted to stay home this time when we heard that my mom was coming into town.  The kids don't get to see her very often so we wanted to take the opportunity to let them have some grandma time.  Really my mom was here to check on my grandma, but she still managed to work in some time with us.  Saturday was super busy for us.  It started off by going to the neighbor's house for a "Potty Party."  They were hoping to do a three day potty training session with their daughter and wanted to start it off by throwing a party for a doll who went on the potty all by herself.  Strange, I know.  Anyway, we went over there and the kids had fun playing for a little bit and eating a cupcake.  It was time to leave once we had seen that grandma had shown up.  We headed back to the house and gathered up a few things and headed out to the nursing home where my grandma has been living.  We spent a few hours visiting grandma cupcake (that's what the kids like to call her) and then headed to her house to do a little cleaning prior to her returning home the next day.  We spent a good part of the afternoon cleaning and then headed over to my brother's for dinner.  The kids loved running all over the place.  After dinner we returned home and there was a message on the machine saying that we could come back over to have the potty party for the little girl since she had gone on the potty too.  So we delayed baths and headed over there for another cupcake and a little dancing.  Normally Saturday is our movie night, but we were too wiped and just gave the kids a bath and read before bedtime.
     Sunday started off by us enjoying my oldest nephew's soccer game.  It was a beautiful morning and it had been such a long time since I watched one of their games.  After the game we had some errands to run prior to heading out to grandma cupcake's.  Once there we spent time hanging out with family and talking about how things were going to work while my grandma was home.  In the evening we let the kids have movie night and then went to bed early.

A butterfly the kids had caught.

Enjoying cupcakes at Grandma Cupcake's

     On Monday my mom brought us by breakfast prior to heading to the airport.  I did some grocery shopping, but other than that we just had a nice, relaxing day at home.