Project 857- June 27

Another hot sunny summer day!!!

The boys went down to Gramma and Grampa's the night before and Neal and I spent Friday night house hunting... since we were kid free we made it to 10 houses!!! A few potentials and one creepy house where the family was still home, the whole house was dark, the mom was upstairs laying in bed with music blaring and the kids were down watching movies. There was junk and crap all over the place. Sad.... and we couldn't get out of there fast enough.

So Saturday morning Neal and I woke up and got busy. Our Realtor was hosting an open house at our place that weekend, so we spent the morning cleaning and cleaning and sprucing up and cleaning and staging the house.

We took off for my parent's around 9:30 in the morning and got there right as Owen was getting up from his morning nap.

My Aunt Patty was coming in from San Diego (hence the reason why we planned a weekend down in Springfield and the open house at our place) but she didn't arrive until that evening so we had all day to have fun.

We set up our kiddie pool and spent all day in it!

We also enjoyed some Popsicles, and Neal and I obsessively checked our phones for updates from our Realtor...

It was an awesome, lazy, fun summer day... the dogs were running around, music was playing, Owen took a long afternoon nap, (the pool wore him out!!!!) and we just soaked up the sun.

Since it was so hot my Mom didn't want to cook. We headed to the Mongolian Grill because I thought Austin would like choosing his own noodles and toppings (he picked pineapple and ham- ha) and we met my Grandma there.

This picture cracks me up... my Dad looks so stoic and Austin looks terrified... I guess some of us are intimidated by the size of Mongolian Grill bowls... and some of us aren't!

Owen had some rice and chicken and noodles and veggies... but what he loved the best was Granma Darlene giving him sips of water through a straw!

And banging the rice bowl on the table. After dumping it out. And dumping out the water glass. Then banging the water glass. He loved all that too.

Needless to say, little brother made quite the mess... so big brother took it upon himself to walk over to where he saw an employee set down a broom and dustpan, and carry them over to our table and clean up the mess on the floor.

It cracked us all up! I look up from doing something with Owen and here is Austin, carrying a broom and dustpan and I was like "where did he find that???" the fact that he located them, went and got them on his own and then cleaned up while talking about how "messy" Owen was was hilarious.

Later that night I went over to my Grandma's to see my Aunt after she arrived... she is never here long enough in my opinion!!! :-)

And this picture was taken on Sunday, but it sums up a weekend at Gramma and Grampa's pretty well.