Surprise Visit From Grandma

My MIL lived here until 3 yrs ago and we hadn't seen her for 2 years until we flew her here this weekend.  We didn't tell the kids she was coming and they were soooo happy and surprised!  We relaxed around home Friday night.  Saturday morning, we slept in and then Ray made pancakes & sausage.  I have no idea when we last had a free Saturday.  I'm guessing it was around February!  It was great just lounging around and not having anywhere to be.  MIL and I took a few hours during the afternoon to do some shopping.  Saturday night, we took her out to our nice new restaurant, Buffalo City Grille.  We knew there wouldn't be time to go out on Mother's Day so that was our early treat.

Sunday morning, she got to see all 3 of the kids perform for the last time this year with their choirs in church.  MIL was lucky to be here one of the rare times they all sing on the same day.

For Mother's Day, both Grandma & I got Blue Tooth Adapters to connect our cell phones to our computers.  Now, I can synchronize my calendar to my phone without even taking it out of my purse.  Very cool.  I also got a very nice card from MIL in which she wrote "You are the DIL people dream of having in their lives.  But, I gotcha & I ain't sharing"!  I'm very lucky to have such a sweet MIL.

We finally had a beautiful day and we got to spend it outside at soccer games.  Jace's game was first.  It was a really tight game and Jace scored 2 goals.

 

 

After a short break, we were off to Cody's game.  He really showed off for Grandma!  I believe they won by 1 point and Cody scored 3 goals, 2 of which were highly impressive.  The first was a corner kick.  Now, Cody's made quite a few goals from corner kicks but they were all during competitive soccer with the big net.  Since they're just playing 4 v. 4 for recreational soccer, they're playing without goalies and with small nets.  I honestly didn't even think it was possible to make a corner kick into those nets!  His last score came when a teammate passed the ball to him.  The ball crossed in front of the net and was way over to the side by the time Cody got to it, but somehow, he managed to get it in the net. 

 

 

Since Grandma was here, we let Cody open his birthday present from her even though it's a few weeks early.

Last night, we went to a family dance at our church.  I'm going to share pictures from that another time.

We let the kids play hookey from school this morning to spend a little more time with Grandma before she had to catch her plane.  They taught her bowling on the Wii.

 

We had lunch at Paradiso.