Grandma's Comin' to Town!

A few weeks ago our ward had it's primary program.  And not like I'm a bias Mom of the cutest four year old alive or anything... but Gavin pretty much was the cutest kid there! I think Grandma would agree, and of course she came up to Provo for a visit to see Gavin in the primary program, and to celebrate Jared's Birthday as well. After we finished hiking the Y Saturday afternoon, we made it back home right as Grandma was arriving and headed out for dinner together at Sizzler's.

I love this kid's smiles! And now he is laughing so much too!

Grandma and Gavin had all sorts of fun with different activities.  They made Olaf from a toilet paper role, and a balloon rocket to shoot across Gavin's bedroom!  Gavin was so excited to show Daddy the balloon rocket when he got home from work, so we finally did it again with Gavin a few days later across the whole front room.

The night before Daddy's Birthday Gavin helped me wrap up his presents and was so excited to surprise Daddy!  I was impressed that he didn't tell Daddy what was inside any of the packages. While Jared was at work we cut out birthday hearts and wrote messages on them and taped them to the window, and blew up Happy Birthday balloons as well.  Eve was over playing with Gavin while we were making the hearts, so Jared even got some birthday hearts from Eve. That night instead of cake we attempted to make a soda slushy with our "new" ice cream maker. 

Jared is supposed to get his Birthday off at work, but because Tuesday was going to be a busy day, his boss gave him Friday off instead.  So Tuesday we did his birthday at home with us and Grandma, Wednesday we went out for dinner and celebrated his birthday with his good friend Lincoln, and on the Saturday we celebrated with the usual tradition of Burger Supreme, Sherley's cinnamon rolls, and the Nickel Cade!  A few weeks later we used Jared's free Tucano's Birthday meal card for some extended celebration fun!