Peyton & Garrison Visit Clinton for a Week - September 2013

As Amanda and Chad went to Palm Springs, California for a week for both a vacation and for Chad to play in the Nationals of his Amateur Golf League (he won two tournaments to qualify - go Chad), Peyton and Garrison had a grandparents vacation!  They started with the Todds where they had fun at Peyton's soccer game, Whitney spent the night, they went to Wyatt's soccer game, and then on Monday to an orchard where they got apples and pumpkins before the Todds brought them to Clinton to start the Clinton leg of their week-long vacation on Monday afternoon.

I probably won't get things in order, but here are some of the things we had fun doing.  We went to the Methodist Church playground where they had fun swinging, going down the slides and lots of climbing.  Afterward, we picked up McDonald's food and then had a picnic at Optimist Park - then more fun on the
playground equipment there.

On Wednesday, we went to the Aquatic Center to splash and swim.  Peyton is quite the accomplished swimmer and loved going around the lazy river, down the big slide and swimming in the big pool.  Garrison remembered the duckie slide from the last time and had fun with the pop up fountains, etc.  They didn't want to leave.

We had lots of outdoor play with yard darts, the slide, golf, watching frogs at the pond, climbing on the concrete wall by #17, dodge ball, t-ball, etc.  Grammaw and Peyton worked on a scrapbook of their vacation here.  She had fun cutting pictures out of magazines and wanted to go to Walmart to have some pictures she took printed - so cute.  They had a lot of fun.  Peyton loves to play games - we played many games of Go Fish, Old Maid (Grammy always lost) and Candy Land.  Puzzles were fun too.

We had lots of fun in the kitchen.  Peyton and Garrison made cream cheese mints for their Mommy and no-bake cookies for their Daddy to take to them when they got home.  We made homemade pizza.  Peyton made iced tea with orange juice in it.  She thought that was so funny.

Wednesday afternoon around 4 p.m., the cable went out and didn't come back on until the next morning.  Thank goodness Amanda had put Max and Ruby on my ipad for the kids to watch before bedtime - part of their routine!

On Thursday while Grandpa went to Rotary, the kids and I went to Grandma's house and played outside.  They loved having squirt bottles of water and rags to "wash" their toys - too funny.  They probably spent 30 minutes washing and drying the tricycles, etc.  We had lunch there which was fun.  Murray and Grammaw spent 3 nights with us over night - Peyton really wanted her to do that, and Grammaw agreed.  We all had fun.  

Peyton rode on the Class of 1973 Float with me during the Homecoming Parade and had a blast.  She waved to everyone and enjoyed it all.  We all went to the CHS Alumni Tailgate BBQ dinner and then to the football game.  Peyton was so excited to go to her first ever football game - liked the band, the cheerleaders, the actual game and the crowning of the homecoming queen.  They were both so good, we went to McDonald's afterward and had ice cream cones!  Garrison sure says "ice cream cones" so cute.

Peyton and Garrison received mail at our house!  Mommy and Daddy sent them a letter from vacation which made Peyton sooooo happy.  I think she was starting to miss them very much.

On Saturday night, we went to the chicken dinner fundraiser at Davis R-12 where Ron went to the first 8 grades of school.  The kids liked seeing Grandpa's picture on the wall when he was 13 years old.

We went to church Sunday morning before starting back to Overland Park to take the kiddos home.

Peyton and Garrison made 3 grown people - their Grammy, Grandpa and Grammaw very happy people for a week - we love them sooooo much.

We are blessed.