Memorial Day Weekend 2013

Our Memorial Day Weekend started by Grammy and Grammaw traveling to Overland Park to pick up our sweet little folks, Peyton and Garrison, and bringing them back to Clinton with us for the weekend.  Their parents had some appliance shopping to do - easier without 4 extra helping hands, ha ha - and went out to dinner to celebrate their upcoming 11th wedding anniversary.  We were the big winners to get the kids!  Peyton slept most of the way home, and Garrison and Grammaw seemed to enjoy "talking" with each other - he was good!

We arrived in Clinton around 4:30 p.m. and played a bit before enjoying our dinner meal outside on the patio - per Peyton's request.  She loves to eat outside.  They played on the Little Tykes slide and enjoyed the outdoors before we came in for baths and a snack.  Garrison always wants to go with Grandpa to take Grammaw home - and Saturday night was not an exception.   As we usually do when Amanda and Chad are not here, Peyton and I slept downstairs in their room so will be close to Garrison.  Both children slept well.

Sunday we had a quick breakfast and got ready for church.  Garrison had other ideas than his Mommy and I had for him to wear to church - guess who won - Garrison wore what he wanted, which was fine.  Peyton looked beautiful in her pink searsucker dress and white sandals.  I played the piano for gathering time at church - about 25 minutes - and Peyton was my helper!  As I finished playing a piece, she would take the music and stack it up on the front pew.  She was so excited to be "helping" Grammy - and it was heartwarming for me to have her there with me.  After church,l we all went to donut time - a big hit for the kids, and our friends all enjoyed seeing them.

We picked up Grammaw right after church - making Peyton quite thrilled - and we came home and filled the wading pool for some water time fun.  While the water was warming up, Peyton, Grammaw and I ran some errands to Walgreens, Westlake and ending at McDonald's to pick up lunch - which we ate outside again.  While Garrison took a nap, Peyton and put together a new puzzle - but, she didn't need my help at all.  She didn't even look at the picture and put it together completely by herself.  We played Go Fish and watched a movie, then after Garrison woke up, they put on their suits to play in the pool, etc.  We also hooked up the Hello Kitty Sprinkler which Peyton liked, but Garrison wasn't such a big fan.  He really liked going down the slide into the pool and getting in and out of it. we also played yard darts.  Amanda and Chad arrived for the rest of the weekend while we were outside.  Chad did a little chipping on the #3 green with Garrison's help.

Chad grilled our dinner of steaks and brats for us.  We also had grilled asparagus, corn on the cob and a fruit pizza which Peyton and Garrison helped Grammaw make - it was delicious and beautiful.

On Monday after breakfast, Grandpa and Garrison went to get Grammaw, and then the guys took off for the golf course to play with Mike and Dennis.  We took the kids up to visit them on the #3 green when they arrived there which was fun.   Amanda, Grammaw, Grammy and the kids went to our church playground and had great fun - both kids are great climbers, and Peyton is doing great swinging herself.  We stopped by Grammaw's house where the kids had a yummy snack of peaches and mandarin oranges.

We came back and played for a while before lunch.  Peyton and Grammaw had a blast playing downstairs and Garrison joined in part of the time.  Garrison helped Grammaw make guacamole for lunch.  The guys golf game was shortened by rain, and then the Todds went back to Overland Park.

We had such a wonderful weekend.  Earlier in the week, Ron, Peggy and Grammaw went to the cemetery to decorate graves.  Grammaw and Peggy went back a couple of times later in the week to visit Grandpa Mintun's grave.  We miss him.