Peyton/Grammy Day, Weekend Visit to the Grandparents and Peyton's Church School Program

What a fun-filled weekend!  Grammy and Great-Grandma Mintun (Grammaw) traveled to Overland Park on Friday morning, 4/19/2013.  Grammaw stayed at the Todds house while Grammy picked up Peyton at school early for our first annual Grammy and Peyton Day.  Peyton was very excited when I arrived to pick her up.  She chose Freddy's for lunch.  We sat "up high" and enjoyed chicken tenders, frieds and a sundae with gummy worms.  Peyton wanted to go to the Mall, so that is what we did!  She rode the carousel - with me along but not standing right by her - she's a big girl now you know!  Then she wanted to go to the "Mickey Mouse Store" (Disney) where we spent quite a bit of time browsing, finally settling on flip flops with bling and Brave on them.  She was so sweet and always wanted to get Garrison something too.  She said, "Let's get Garrison Mickey flip flops - he loves Mickey".  She found princess socks which she loved at Famous Footwear.  She found some Hello Kitty sandals for her and Elmo tennis shoes for Garrison.  The final stop was at the American Girl Doll Store where she found Piocano a new outfit - we were not going to be able to leave the mall without something for Piocano.  So cute.  We then went to Sam's Club - she was so excited to see what the "sellers" would have to offer but didn't eat too much.  We then picked up Grammaw from the house and Garrison at school and came on back to Clinton for the next 24 hours of fun.

After a stop at home, Grammy, Peyton and Garrison met Grandpa at the Rotary Shrimp Dinner and sat with Mike and Roberta Edgett and their granddaughter, Madelyn.  We saw lots of friends who enjoyed seeing the kids.  They behaved very well, and we had a good time.

Peyton and Grammy slept together downstairs so we could hear Garrison if he needed us.

Saturday morning, Peyton was anxiuos for Grammaw to come over.  We had breakfast and played - several games of Go Fish and Old Maid (new to her) - lots of giggles and fun.  Garrison practiced riding his tricycle in the house and watched Mickey on TV.  Grandpa wanted to go to Grammaw's house to mow the yard, so we all went along and had lunch there - hotdogs with hair (aka spaghegtti) which we liked to look at but didn't want to eat (see pic), so we had applesauce, cheese, etc. for lunch.  We played outside and had a good time with balls and riding tricycles.

After going baqck home, Garrison took a nap and Peyton had a bath and got ready to attend the anniversary reception we were going to around 2:30 p.m.  She let me blow dry her hair and looked beautiful in her pretty "dance" dress and high heels.  Garrison had his bath after awaking from his nap, we got him dressed in his spiffy vest, long-sleeved shirt and khaki's - and of course, his black dress shoes of which he is so proud, and went to the reception at the Rotary Building.  The kids were sl well behaved and had a good time having cake, cupcakes, mints and lemonade.  Garrison took his milk along.

We started back to Overland Park around 3:45 p.m. and met Amanda and Chad at Olive Garden for dinner.  Peyton literally "talked" all the way home, and Garrison giggled and snoozed a bit.  We had a great time at Olive Garden and then went back to the Todds to spend the night.

Sunday morning we attended mass with the family, meeting Grandpa and Grandma Todd there, and watched Peyton's church school program.  We enjoyed a delicious brunch at the house before returning home.

A great family weekend full of memories.