Gramma & GG Come to Visit

This past weekend, Gramma and GG, came to visit for a long girls weekend!  We LOVED having them here with us and we did A LOT!  This post is long because of all the photos of all the things we did!

On Sunday, we met up with Mary and Tom and headed to the New Albany Classic.  We went to this together last year and it really was a lot of fun so we headed back again this year!

Call it what you will but this is not an uncommon
sight these days.  Kate calls it giving me a
"challenge".

Mimi, Papaw, and Kate see the horses as they
are coming in!

Kate has been very intrigued with the Snoopy
character recently.  As a matter of fact, she loves
all the "dog" characters.  Pluto was her go-to at
Disney!

Riding the carousel with Gramma and Mimi.

Coloring with GG.

All of us, under the tent, enjoying the beautiful day!

So little, yet so brave!  Kate was nearly the smallest in line for...

...this inflatable slide.  I was semi-concerned the first few times.

After all, I wasn't going in with her which was a first, but she totally
nailed it!

Wanna know what it's like on a path to an inflatable slide when you're by yourself?!  Like a little sprite just bouncing though the meadow!

Petting a little bunny at the petting zoo!

The Hendu 4.0.

Gramma and a sleepy Maya.

Gramma, GG, and Maya!

I love these two SO MUCH!

The weather was wonderful and we really enjoyed our time together outside!  When the weather is perfect, it's hard to keep me inside.  As a matter of fact, the weather doesn't even have to be perfect.  It's hard to keep me inside period.  I love the sun, the rain, the snow, the cloudy days, thunderstorms...I just REALLY despise being cold.

On Monday, we headed back to the zoo!

Maya, Gramma, and GG do the zoo!

Cutest little love!

I mean, seriously.  She just can't get any cuter!

I swore I took more photos at the zoo, but my folder of zoo photos tells me otherwise...

On Tuesday we went to Fred Beekman Park, one of Kate's favorite parks, and just had a little down time before my Mom and my Grandma left to catch their flight home.

She's the best GG ever!

Like, ever and ever and ever!

Four generation selfie!  Maya was snoozing!

I love this one!  This is our normal.

When my family and friends can come to Ohio and visit us, it is awesome!  It is challenging travelling with two young children and the amount of "stuff" we have to bring makes it hard to justify little weekend trips that otherwise would be doable.  (I'm mainly referring to our 7-ish hour drive back home to Maryland and I'm also referring to flights that are not delayed, re-routed, etc. as was the case with this trip...)  In addition to this, when we are home in Maryland, we are typically pulled in a lot of different directions trying to fit visits with everyone in.  While it is WONDERFUL to see all the familiar friends and family and hug them so tightly, it is also difficult.  Difficult to manage, difficult to fit everyone and every thing in, difficult to coordinate with nap and bed schedules, just difficult.  I'm not complaining because I love, LOVE seeing these people that I hold so near and dear to my heart.  All I'm saying is that when they come to Ohio, we all get some real one on one time and it makes it a lot easier on us.

The problem with having such awesome visitors is that the moment they leave there's like this void in our house.  Or perhaps it's my heart.  Maybe it's just me, but my friend and family visitors are bittersweet.  I enjoy my time with them immensely, but I am always sad to see them go.  Not having my friends and family so close is the hardest thing about living far from home.  I miss them so much it hurts sometimes.

SO, to make a long story short, I SO LOVED having my Mom and my Grandma here.  They are two incredibly amazing women, and being able to spend so much time with them was THE BEST!