Visit from Grandma Joyce

At the end of September, Grandma Joyce (my mom) came to visit for a long weekend. Visits to Kansas apparently will be no different from her visits to Kingman, Grandma will earn her keep. As hard as I tried not to, I still put her to work. It is difficult to turn down the help when there was so much to do and she is so willing. So we painted. We painted my living room, my kitchen, my dining room, and hallway.

(See that blue smudge on the ceiling? Yep, still there. I should fix that.)

We also tore up baseboards and patched walls. Thanks to her help, it was all done in no time!

There was definitely time to play. Gracey had school during the days so Grandma and Emily got to play dress ups, soccer, and even took some trips to the park. Emily was loving the attention and I was loving that I could show off our great new town to someone.

When Gracey was finished with school, we spent a good amount of time at the park and zoo! Gracey and Emily are pretty familiar with the zoo and the animals so it was fun to have them as Grandma's little tour guides.

No trip would be complete here without eating at Bella Vita. (Okay, so we ate at Braum's as well. People know their food here!) Bella Vita though, and their pizza is just too good to pass up.

We really loved having my mom visit. It is sometimes hard to not live an easy drive away from family and we really appreciated my mom's efforts to make this visit work. We also are thankful for Allegiant Air and their cheap tickets from Las Vegas to Wichita. If anyone wants to visit, we'd love to have you!!