The Kundin Family: Visit From Papa

Today Papa Ron and Pete came down for a visit, so I took the boys down to my parents' house while Mitch started to do a little work on the swingset. Sutton had a nice early morning nap, so I was fairly certain that he wasn't going to cause me any problems for the rest of the afternoon. Sawyer, I hoped, would sleep in the car on the way down. No such luck, unfortunately. Sutton pooped the minute we got onto the freeway, so aside from stinking up the car for the rest of us, he was also hollering out every few minutes to let me know he'd done so...which in turn kept waking up Sawyer every time he was alllllmost asleep. He kept yelling out at him "Shhh, brother. Keep quiet!" Since baby brother still has no idea what's actually going on, there was no nap to be had for the big guy.

We got there, walked into the backyard where Papa and Pete were standing with my mom, and Sutton took one look over at people he didn't recognize and immediately dropped to the ground grabbing onto my legs and crying his eyes out. Off to a good start. Sawyer also didn't really want much to do with them until they sat down at the table together for awhile, then he really warmed back up to them and had lots of "Papa, look at me...look at this..." moments with him. Papa brought us a bunch of blackberries that he picked down by the river, so I might attempt to make a cobbler tomorrow with Lesley's famous recipe (that I've never attempted, I might add) if I can get the boys to nap well enough.

Mitch came down and joined us right around the time we fired up the barbecue, and we all had a nice dinner. It hasn't really even been that long since my family all got together last, but it always feels nice to sit down with everyone and chat. We ended the evening with some strawberry shortcake and stomach aches. Well, actually it ended with me trying to wrestle Sawyer into bed because, although he was exhausted, he still mustered up enough energy to get into a hysterical crying fit over the necessity of watching "one Monkey George" before he actually went to bed. Strawberry shortcake sounds like a nicer ending though ;)

Tomorrow we're going to attempt the major phase of building on this monstrous swingset. Erik is coming up to help, and I think that Jessi and Stella are going to come hang out too while the guys work. It's always nicer to hang out in the house with both kids when I have company and another grown up to talk to, so that'll be nice (hint, hint, Holly should bring Hattie and come too :P). Hopefully we'll get a good chunk of the work done if not finished. I don't know though...there's A LOT of work to be done. The bucket swing I ordered still won't be in for another 7-10 days, so Sutton will still have to wait awhile to swing anyway. I know that both of the boys are going to absolutely love it though, so it will all be worth it in the end.