Grandma & Papa's visit

My parents came to visit and see their newest grand baby. They arrived on Wed. spent a day and quickly left to visit other family. It wasn't planned that way but our kitchen was still without cabinets and counter tops and it made it very difficult to feed and maneuver in our makeshift kitchen in the basement. Six days later they returned to finish off their visit, they pulled up just as the granite installers pulled out. So they were the first to help break-in our new somewhat finished kitchen. We had lots of fun with Grandma and Papa. We went apple picking, they got to watch Raquel at swim team and sing in the Primary program and attend her preschool performance of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Papa and his first grandson.

Grandma Clinger admiring her newest grandbaby.

SWIM TEAM

The whole family went to watch Raquel swim. She is doing so well and she was excited to get to show off her swimming skills to Grandma and Papa.

Baby Marcus getting ready to head to the pool.

Watching Raquel at swim team

Raquel showing off her swimming

Natalya having fun at the pool during Raquel's team practice.

APPLE PICKING

We spent the day with grandma in Roanoke picking apples. Unfortunately the place we went to last year didn't have the best apples. Because of the heat this year the apples ripened too early and we only had one kind of apple to choose from and there weren't very many on the trees. We picked what we could and were a little disappointed in the thought that we wouldn't get to make any applesauce this year. But on our way home we stopped at another fruit orchard and found lots of different apples. We loaded up on apples and started to head home but not before stopping by the store to pick-up a Foley food mill (my birthday present from my parents and it sure made making applesauce this year a whole lot easier) and getting a bite to eat at a little restaurant. We had a fun day with Grandma and a great dessert of apple crisp the next day.

Natalya enjoying an apple.

I don't know what he is thinking about, maybe all the yummy homemade applesauce he knows he will get to eat this year. What ever it is, it sure made him smile.

PRESCHOOL PLAY

Raquel's preschool class put on a little play for their parents. It just happened to be the day my parents were to leave and so they were able to come and see it before they headed back to the airport. The play was Goldilocks and the three bears, and Raquel was a mama bear. As you can see Natalya didn't want to be left out and so joined in and was the newest mama bear. It was cute seeing the girls have so much fun acting out the story.

Our little Mama Bears