The girls had so much fun with their grandparents while we were on our anniversary trip! We're SOOOOO thankful for our mom's for taking off work and keeping our kids so that we could get away. Such a huge blessing!
Linda was at a retreat in Myrtle Beach with her church and got to our house about dinner time on Saturday. We had some ladies in our church (Ms. Sonja and Ms. Sherry) cover for us from about 2 until Grandmama got there so that we could make it all the way down to Panama City that night. Grandmama kept Emily, Hannah and Claire and we dropped Abby off in Toccoa with my parents as we were on our way down.
Grandmama had a busy schedule of getting the girls ready for school, drop off, pick up, dance class, church on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night, homework, reading, etc. Abby (19 months) is a full time job by herself so with all the running that Grandmama had to do we thought it would be best to send little Abs to Toccoa. My mom was able to work most of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and my Aunt Brenda and cousin Sharon kept her while mom worked. We were so thankful for their help!
Grandmama took the girls to a pumpkin patch on Sunday afternoon after church. They had been asking to go on a hayride so this was super fun that she made this happen for them!
They liked the play area and loved getting to pick 1 small pumpkin each!
My dad sent this picture of mom reading to Abby one night. Abby got to spend lots of one on one time with Mimi and Papa, which is so special!
Ressie and Jacob came over on Sunday afternoon, while Katherine and Brett had something to go to and Abby enjoyed playing with them!
We FaceTimed with the girls a couple days into the trip and it was SO fun to see them but after we had been talking a few minutes Claire got really sad. She started crying and hugging the phone. It just about broke our hearts in two. I think we only FaceTimed one other time after that because we didn't want to make our baby sad.
After we called the big girls it was Abby's turn! She was eating dinner when we called and was as cute as ever!
Grandmama had a "craft night" one of the nights she was there. The girls are not blessed with the most crafty mom, so I love it when she does stuff like this with them!:)
On Wednesday night Mimi and Papa and Abby drove over to Greenville so that Mimi could take over the babysitting duties! The girls were SO happy to see Abby and Abby was so excited to see them. Mom and Dad said it was the sweetest reunion. Dad said you would have thought it had been a month since they had seen each other rather than 4 days.
On Thursday morning Grandmama was off on another adventure. She headed up to Kentucky to do some mission work with her church.
Thursday morning Mimi let the girls pack their own bags (ha!) so that they could head to Toccoa. They almost never get to pack their own bags, so it was definitely a special treat for them. Hannah brought 15 stuffed animals and not enough pj's, but it all worked out just fine!
Toccoa has a new ice cream place called Oscar Mike's in downtown Toccoa and Mimi and Papa took the girls once on Thursday and once on Friday. This is a new favorite spot for them now!
Mom sent this picture of Claire to me while we were on our trip and it made me smile. This shopping cart was ours (mine and Kate's) when we were Abby's age. I'd say it held up WELL!
Mom kept Ressie on Friday while Katherine worked so they had a full house. Here they are watching a show while eating their lunch. Whatever works!
On Saturday morning Kate and Brett had another class so Jacob and Ressie came over to play again. It was really fun that they got to spend time with their cousins while we were away too! They sure do love each other!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Grandmama, Mimi, Papa, Mrs. Sherry, Mrs. Sonja, Aunt Brenda and Sharon for taking such great care of our girls!! Our fun trip was not possible without y'all!!
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