Grandma Goes West

I spent the last week at Melissa's in Utah babysitting for Macey and Henry.  Melissa got to go to Australia with Thomas for his work.  I really had fun with my grand kids which I don't get to do very often.  Macey is a very busy girl, but give her dress-up clothes and crayons and you can entertain her for hours.  Henry is an easy child that will eat, sleep, and play quite contently without much effort on my part. 

We played in the leaves, drew with sidewalk chalk, and visited with Sarah every day.  Lachelle and Ben brought their boys down to play on Thursday also.  The boys really liked riding the little car and drawing as much as Macey.  Thanks to Ben and Lachelle we all got to go for a swim in the hotel pool. 


What a contagious smile!

  We spent as much time outside as possible because rain was in the forecast for Monday and snow for Tuesday.  We enjoyed that pile of leaves more than once.





Henry played shy for Sarah's roommates.



I taught Henry a new skill cherished by our family, dunking graham crackers in milk.  

I took the kids up to Highland to see our family friend Tara.  She has quite a menagerie of animals... goats, lamas, chickens, bunnies, dogs!  Henry spent a long time at the door watching and 'talking' to the dogs in the backyard.  When we went to the barn, the lama spent a long time looking at Henry.  I wish I had had another pair of hands to take pictures out there.

 I think it was worth all the work of babysitting just to spend time with these precious grand kids of mine.