Grammy & Granda Visit!

Memorial Day weekend came and went like a whirlwind... we had a wonderful weekend with friends and family! We were thrilled to have Alli's parents (now known as Grammy & Granda) arrive on Saturday morning and stay through Wednesday morning, and also to have Ryan's "Cousin Susan" arrive for a long layover here on her way home to the Rochester area (NY) from an Alaskan adventure! She arrived Sunday night at around 9:45pm and went home the next morning at around 11:45am. Whewee!

So we'll start at the beginning! Grammy & Granda arrived at around 10:30am on Saturday and had their own errands to run while Alli was finishing up the mini red velvet cakes for our friend Alicia's birthday party that night, so we didn't rendezvous until lunchtime at Granda's favorite... Gunther Toody's (mmm, vanilla malts...)

Here are Alli's red velvet mini cakes (talk about labor intensive... oy!)


And here Riley is being spoiled by Grammy and is sitting on the table at Gunther Toody's!


After lunch at GT's, we went back to Grammy & Granda's condo to get Riley settled and comfortable, and then at 3:30pm Alli left without her little man and didn't see him again until mass at 11:15 the next morning!!! OMG! Riley's first OVERNIGHT!!! I was SO terrified/anxious... I was a wreck leading up to this adventure (did he have everything he needed? Did I forget anything? Will he cry the whole time? Will he be "good" for my parents?). However, once I left, I felt confident it'd go well, and I had a wonderful night, especially after hearing he was sleeping for them. :) Good boy, Riley! Here are some pictures my parents took while hanging with their FAVORITE grandson (heh heh)...

Here's Riley in his pack'n'play, getting the lay of the land...


Here he is playing games with Grammy...


Here's Riley telling stories while chewing on a toe in bed Sunday morning with Granda (I guess when he woke he was telling stories in his pack'n'play and so they brought him to bed to hear them better):


Then we met up at church and he was so good! We didn't do much on Sunday, just relaxed. Susan came and went Sunday to Monday, it was nice for her to get to meet Riley despite the super-quick visit :) And it sounded like she had an AMAZING trip to Alaska, I was jealous! It was a Smithsonian orchestrated Educational Trip to the southeast coast of Alaska on a National Geographic boat. Looked FAB.

Monday we went for a walk with Susan and then took her to the airport. Then we had some time to kill till our BBQ over at Red Stone Park with our softball/football friends... So Alli, Grammy & Granda headed over to Red Stone at 4:00 or so for a nice walk on the Highline Canal Trail, and then met up with the rest of everyone else (including Ryan) at the park for the BBQ at about 5:00. It was a nice time, lots of running around, good food, good peeps. Then we called it a day and headed home. A great weekend!

Here we are on our walk (love the views from the Highline Canal Trail, gorgeous):


And here we are toasting at the BBQ!


Tuesday I took some time off work to spend with the fam, we met with Ryan for lunch out at Roxborough, and bought my parents some new patio furniture for the condo, and then tried a new French cafe right here in Highlands Ranch for take-out for dinner and it was FAB. Definitely will do THAT again.

Wednesday morning my parents swung by on their way to the airport to say good-bye to all of us (yeah right, we all know they came to say bye to big man Riley :) tee hee)


Anyways, it was a fun-filled weekend that FLEW by way too quickly and we cannot wait to see Grammy & Granda again in August! Hooray!

Love to all,
The Willies