Monday, March 30, 2009

Visit from Grandpa Doug

What a wonderful weekend we had!! Paul's dad, Doug, lives in Idaho and hadn't met Porter until this weekend. This is Doug's first grandchild so he is pretty excited about that. He stayed with us from Thursday until Sunday and it was so much fun spending time with him. We had not seen Doug since August so we are so glad he came. Porter absolutely loved him and Doug was so cute with him. It was so much fun watching them bond. On Thursday night my family took my Mom out to eat at Chuck a rama for her birthday and that was a lot of fun!! On Friday Paul's sister Cerra spent the whole day with us and she held Porter THE WHOLE DAY!! She even changed his diaper numerous times throughout the day. What a life saver she is. Cerra is such an awesome aunt and Porter loves her so much! She is going to be the most wonderful Mom some day!! She is so extremely talented and comfortable with babies! We were all sad to see her go home that night. After Cerra left, we all stayed up talking with Doug. It was a lot of fun catching up with eachother. On Saturday afternoon Doug, Paul, Porter and I went on a picnic with Cerra and Dillon to Battle Creek Park. Cerra and Dillon brought the yummiest sandwiches and potatoe salad and we brought drinks and chips. It was Porters first picnic and first trip to the park and he did so well. He basically slept the whole time. Cerra was brave and brought our dog Maggie with us. She doesn't go in public places as much as she should and was a little too excited. Cerra and her dad were very good at trainig her to obey. After talking and eating for a while, we took family pictures!! Paul got a little bored and started making random funny faces.. but I think they turned out pretty good anyways. It was sad to see Doug leave Sunday morning, but we are so thankful that he was able to spend this time with us and Porter. We are excited that Doug is coming back down for Porters baby blessing in May.

3 comments:

Cerra said...

It was so great spending so much time with you guys this weekend. Funny how we posted so many of the same pics from the weekend. Great minds, huh? We'll have to do it again soon. I am still up for soccer Sat. ;-)

Cerra said...

BTW, thanks soooooo much for being so hospitable to our dad! It was so nice of you guys to put him up for the weekend. Please tell your mom thanks too. I asked Paul to tell you both, but you know...

G&D said...

So glad that you could have time with Paul's Dad. He's a really cute Grandpa and you can tell that he's very proud. Love you guys!