Grandma comes to visit

My mom came into town over the weekend and stayed with us Saturday to Wednesday. The girls were so excited to see her and very sad to see her go. I was also very sad to see her go, I could get used to having someone clean the kitchen, play with the girls, get the girls out of bed and feed them breakfast and then clean up breakfast while I went running in the morning. It's also so nice to come downstairs after putting them to bed and find it all cleaned up. She also cleaned my fridge and organized my pantry! It was awesome, I hate those tasks and they look so nice now. I don't know where she gets the energy for it all because once nap time comes around I usually need one of my own.

We did some fun things without feeling the pressure to get everything in or do something new: swimming, the children's museum, the Mormon Fort. We were also very excited that she could come to Willa's piano lesson. Our teacher got her stamp of approval and in the car my mom said, "She is worth whatever you have to pay for lessons." Fun fact: our piano teacher's husband (who has since passed away) designed and painted all the murals in the Salt Lake Temple during the big renovation in 1965 or so. Isn't that amazing? She recently traveled out there with all his journals to meet with the Church archivist and they got to sit in the temple on Monday when it was closed and talk about all the rooms and renovations.

My mom left yesterday and we already miss her. June was fussing yesterday about something and kept crying, "Grandma, grandma, I want grandma." It's a good thing we are traveling up next week for baby Aero's sealing and baby blessing.

This is the best photo we got.