A visit from Grandma Groves

We got to spend Mother's Day weekend with Grandma! She flew up from Florida on Friday and went back home on Tues. We had lots of fun with her. Grandma got to spends lots of time playing with Isabella. On Sat. Jeff and I went to even more garage sales (score on the cozy coupe)
and we got lots of work done in the flower bed. Grandma left in the afternoon to drive to Cedar Falls to visit her friend Colleen who isn't doing so well (prayers for Colleen, please).

On Sat. night we had a fun time at Shane Lemke's graduation party.

Sunday was a trip to Lowe's, lunch at Gus's resturant, more yard work and grilling out for dinner. After Isabella went to bed we played dominoes. Jeff beat us very badly - he won every single round (it was Mother's Day... ahem). The next night during a rematch - we realized we were missing 3 dominoes! I think that means that Jeff's sweep the night before doesn't count!

Monday I worked in the morning, but in the afternoon we ran errands and went to the park. Jeff made pizza for dinner. It was a great weekend. Grandma kept Isabella entertained all weekend long! Isabella also said (and signed) "thank you". It was so crazy because it was out of the blue at a totally appropriate time (Grandma had just given her more cheerios). She's also said "football" and her new favorite words are "shoes" and "up". We expect more visits like this from Grandma now that there is a direct flight from Tampa to Cedar Rapids.