lunch and a movie....

So Nate and I spent a day with the girls. We ate Chinese food and watched the newest princess movie in their theater room!

They girls ate a cookie and grandma stole lot's of kisses!

Elizabeth was in a very happy mood, with her cookie face!

Then Issy wanted me to paint her nails. After that she painted mine.

       After Issy was done with my fingers she said "now let me paint your footies." So I let her paint my footsies!

Then she painted her mothers fingernails, and toenails.

When she was done she wanted to paint the babies, but there was no way to get the baby to be still enough. So she ask Uncle Nate if she could paint his. He laughed and told her "no."

                                                    But that just made her really sad.

So her mother jumped in and tackled her little brother to save the day!

Issy was so happy:-)

Then she needed to do the other foot!

                                               I told Nathan, now he was a real man for letting her do it!

                               Elizabeth got upset over something and up the hands went again, to cute! Oh, I almost forgot to write this down. Normally when I hold my hands out to Elizabeth she'll hold her hands up for me to take her. But if I don't hold my hands out she just smiles at me and is happy to stay where she is. Well today after I got there, her mother brought her down. She smiled at me and held her hands out to me. I was super excited, she wanted me! That was the first time on her own that she wanted me. I think she is starting to figure out I'm her grandma!

                                                     Me and Issy with matching nails!

a sad little story....

We had fun with Gary and Cathy here. We all relaxed and just took it easy. I was cracking up because the guys went to the grocery store for a few things. Well they loaded up on the yummy stuff. We were all eating about the same way, Gary is diabetic. So they loaded up on yummy high protein yogurt, and chocolate mouse! It's the diet stuff, sweet temptations or something like that, it comes in 3 different flavors. They had to work for quite a while to fit it all in the fridge!hahaha

Mike had to take off to Canada this morning. Gary and Cathy left this morning too. Gary did me a big favor, he pointed out to Mike how his shirts didn't fit. Mike has lost over 120 pounds but he still thinks he is pretty big. He bought himself a new shirt, but bought an extra large. I told him it would be to big and he argued that he was that small yet. I told him he was smaller than he thought! Gary shopped with him and helped him find a few clothes that actually fit.

I was excited to see him in his new shirt today, not big and baggy it just fit! I knew there would be health benefits to our weight loss, that's why we did it. But he is pretty hot, I got a new husband in the deal!:-)

So Isolde called me today after she left the gym daycare. She said..... "Grandma a boy hit my head and it hurt, that made me sad." Then she said that "chicken nuggets (chick-fil-a) will make her head feel better and so will fries."  Then she wanted to talk to her papa and all of her uncles to tell them her sad story. She was soooo cute. I am bummed that a little boy hit her and hurt her. But that's life once in a while she is going to have to deal with it. It makes grandma sad too!:-)

Company and a birthday......

We had company come in this weekend. Gary and Cathy from Arizona, it's been a long time since we have seen them. So it has been fun for them to be here. Today was Chris's birthday, so we had the kids over and had a fun family & friend dinner for him. Of course the princess was so helpful and opened all of his presents for him:-) And his dad for a fun joke wrapped his gifts in "birthday girl" and princess paper, he was so happy!

I made a big roast dinner and his sister made his "birthday pie." I forgot candles but we found a "2"  we just needed to add a 3, but the 2 was fine.

the guys

Cathy is a great grandma and she got down and played with Elizabeth.

Elizabeth loves to drink out of camel-back water bottles.

Uncle Steven held her too.

I gave her kisses....

She played with Cathy some more.

Oh and Erin made Chris a special birthday present. Issy calls him Uncle Kiss. She calls all of her uncles, uncle. I really like that. But Erin made Chris a special stained glass box that says "Uncle Kiss."

He loves it and says he is going to keep it forever, and when Issy is 13 he is going to embarrass her with it:-)

Ophelia got in on all the love, and enjoyed Cathy.

Issy had some yummy candy.

And Mike and Gary were goof balls as usual!

It was a good birthday for Chris he was very happy. And we are planning on having a fun week with Gary and Cathy!

A quick weekend ....

I was in Gilmer and Mike was in Japan. We landed 20 minutes apart, so Mike was waiting at my gate when I got off the plane. He brought little trinket and chocolates for the kids.  He tried to find T-shirts for the boys, but it was all  American stuff. University t-shirts, sports t-shirts, I guess the Japanese prefer American stuff. But he found me a kimono at the airport. so I tried it on.

He also found a cool ninja t-shirt for Nathan. Which Nathan wore on Saturday when we hung out, with him.

Nathans car had a bad tire so he had to take it to the tire shop. I thought he looked so grown up sitting waiting for his car to be fixed. My baby!:-)

We went to lunch and ate legal Inn N Out burgers!

The kids came over Sunday night so we could see the girls. It had been over 2 weeks since I had seen my babies! Issy decided she needed some of my yogurt and she ate the entire container. I was proud of her.

Poor baby princess threw up just as the got to our house. She had a sweet little smile still, but she didn't feel good.

She was so cute I got on the floor to play with her and she did this.

I ask her what was wrong, and she had just had diarrhea again, for the 3rd time that hour. She was sad. But how cute was it that she did an "oh no" expression, I don't know if she meant it, but it was cute. The kids had to hurry home because they had run out of supplies! I don't like it when those babies are sick!

The Devil is alive and living in East Texas, we call him" Southern Food!"

So I will start out with Grandma guilt! I missed my baby princesses 1st birthday!But I went shopping with her, her mother and big sister for birthday stuff before I left.

Issy shopped in her tutu!

Then I was off to Gilmer to take a puppy and visit my parents for a while. we stopped by and visited Lana and Aunt Beth.

Then on to the 21/2 hour drive home. Dad held Bebe all the way home.

Bebe fit right in.

She was very playful and LOVES socks.....

And naps......

and stairs.

                   I had fun visiting friends, A high school friend arranged a  last minute dinner, I hadn't seen
3 of the girls for 27 years!

One of dads childhood friends was running in the local elections and he come over and had dad help him make some signs. they have been friends for so long the were in scouts together.

While I was there it was Chris's birthday. They invited me along for his birthday dinner. It was a very nice evening, but I forgot to take a picture of the their  beautiful and pregnant daughter and son-in-law.

Me and Gina

Mom had glaucoma in one of her eyes. It was really bad. She needed an eye surgery. It was scheduled for the day after I left. Dad ask if I could stay a bit longer to help out. Mike arranged it and I stayed longer. Mom's surgery went very well and I was so glad she finally had it fixed!

 

Now for the devil part. The Food!  Yikes!!!!

I wanted some nut's but they were stuck in this yummy sugar!

I called a little "lunch restaurant" and they were having chicken fried steak that day. I couldn't resist so we had yummy lunch! I shared a meal with mom, and just took a bite of roll and potatoes. The purple hull peas were legal and have more protein than black eyed peas.

And I do not like fish. But there is one kind of fish I have liked my entire life. It's fried fish from a cafeteria called "Lubby's" I had to ask dad to get me some, even with the tarter sauce! YUMMMMM!

With all of the devil temptations. I was glad to get away from my weakness "the peanut patty" but I got a few local cookbooks that actually have recipes for them! I never thought about making them myself!!!

It was a great trip. I enjoyed my time at home and I lost 2 pounds in the 2 weeks I was gone!