Megan's family b-day party

Sorry it's been so long since I posted on here. First of all, I was spending time with my mother :) Secondly, Jack is getting four teeth and hasn't been sleeping very well, so I've been a bit tired. He finally had one of his top middle teeth break through (before that he had 4 - two in the middle on the bottom and the two on the sides of the middle ones on top - sort of interesting, but I've decided he was paying homage to the imminent release of the last book in the Twilight series) and actually slept (gasp!) last night, so hopefully the worst is over :)

We didn't do anything earth-shattering during the last week of Nona's visit. Nona and I worked on 2009's family calendar and just about finished it! Obviously, there are still some pictures that will be replaced or added as there are several months left in this year and many milestones - Jack's first b-day (approaching disturbingly fast!) and Travis's homecoming (yay!!!!) to name a few.

On Friday we drove Nona to Fidelity so she could go with Christy to the drop zone and watch her sky dive. On the spur of the moment, the kids and I went too. The kids LOVED the planes and watching the sky divers land. They had an air conditioned room with a movie on and bean bags for kids, but the kids didn't want to watch the movie. They wanted to stay outside and play with the rocks and chase dragonflies and watch skydivers. Beth was so funny! We told the kids where we were going and what we were going to watch. We got there and after watching the first set of skydivers land, Beth turned to Christy and said "OK! Your turn! Get going!" When Christy got on the plane, Beth said, with loads of pride in her voice, "that's MY Kiki!" We got some pictures, but they are on Christy's camera, so I'll have to have her bring it over and download them on here. We had dinner on the way home at IHOP (Nona's first time there). It was a really fun day!

On Saturday we took it easy, did our shopping, then Nona, Christy and I went out to dinner with one of Christy's friends. We went to a Mexican restaurant and found out that Nona doesn't like Italian food??? That was very surprising as my family is pretty big on Italian food and we (at least Christy and I) had no idea that Mom didn't like it! Saturday night Jack was up literally until 4:30am, with both Megan and Beth waking up at point too, so only Rob went to church. Nona took care of the kids and let me sleep :) Thank you Nona!!!

I think this was Sat night? Jack fell asleep on Nona's shoulder :)

Sunday evening Christy came over and we had a family birthday party for Megan. Her birthday is actually this coming Thursday, but we wanted to celebrate with Nona. Megan got to open her presents from Nona and Papa, Susan, and an extra one from Molly. Nona and Papa got her paper dolls from Alaska (which she LOVES) and they got all three girls a rolling pink suitcase that works as a carry on or will be great for sleep overs at Christy's. Susan sent down the watch she used to wear when she was younger. Megan promptly had Rob help her put it on and announced to me (after Nona told her not to get it wet) that she was never going to bathe again because she didn't want to take her watch off, plus she never got very dirty anyway (her words, not mine). Molly sent her another My Little Pony set. The girls are really getting into those. I have to say that they are much more interesting now then they were when I was growing up - they even have clothes that button and fancy horn rimmed glasses!

Meg and Kylie posing with Meg's paper dolls

Jack enjoying shaking a Walmart bag

Meg modeling her watch

Rob got a surprise graduation present, or rather two of them - Nona and Papa bought him a gas card to pay for two months of gas to take him back and forth to his boxing gym. The girls and I are giving him 6 more months of boxing lessons (he was going to stop with this month). Rob has a week left of this final class, then he is done with his MBA!!!!! We are so proud of him!!!!!
Megan got to pick out dinner and dessert for Sunday while shopping on Saturday. For dinner she wanted meats, cheeses, and bread with fruit. We had sopressata, prosciutto (Kylie's favorite), and ham, a smoked German cheese and colby jack cheese, a whole grain french bread and a whole wheat french bread, and canary melon, a yellow melon similar to a honeydew melon. We had an all natural sparkling pink lemonade to drink. She picked out a strawberry crunch cake and duck candles for this party. Susan and Papa helped to sing her Happy Birthday through use of the speaker phone.