weekend with my parents...

We were so blessed this past weekend to have my parents come up to visit!!  We always love having them come...they are so incredibly helpful and generous to us (and to Aaron and Jill)!  They do a great job of making the trip pretty often, and we are so thankful that we still live close enough for them to do this! 

So our weekend was pretty busy!  On Saturday night dad and mom took us all out to eat for Aaron's birthday (which was actually over a month ago).  We went to a really cool restaurant and it was lots of fun:)

Halle and Grandma Jan...these two are pretty close:)

Kaine wanted to take a picture of Aaron and Jill...

Me and my sweet little Daisy:)  Sadly, she was in the beginning stages of sickness this night:(

We sat Layla and Ivy next to each other.  They are really becoming friends!  It is really cute to see.  They thought it was fun to sit in their high chairs next to each other!

Layla likes to be a mommy to Ivy sometimes, too:)

So sweet!!!!!

We had some good food...

And Kaine loved the restaurant because it had an arcade!

So that was a fun evening:)  My parents were planning to go to Detroit church with us the next day, but this little girl was not doing so well:(  I stayed home with her and she was doing so bad that I even took her to the doctor that morning.  I really suspected she had an ear infection, but it turned out to be just a virus.  (and actually, a couple days after this, we found out she actually had Roseola...which is a common thing for babies to get.  She had a high fever for a couple of days and then the fever went away and she broke out in a rash.  Which is the exact definition of Roseola!  Kaine and Layla had it when they were babies, too).  But I am happy to report that she is all better now!

So that night (Sunday) my parents GRACIOUSLY and BRAVELY watched all 6 kiddos so that Nathan and I and Aaron and Jill could go on dates for Valentine's Day!!  Thanks, dad and mom!  That was so nice of you guys!  Nathan and I went to Red Lobster, which was so good.  Not so sure about our waiter, though...(haha, just kidding...our waiter was actually a fellow married student.  And he really did a great job:) ).

After we got back from our dates, we celebrated my dad's birthday, which is coming up on February 24...

I am so in love with this little guy...isn't he so adorable???  What a sweetheart, too:)

My dad and Kaine...they spend so much time together!  Dad, you are such a good grandpa!



Thanks for everything this weekend, Dad and Mom!!  We loved spending the weekend with you guys and we appreciate ALL that you did (and continue to do!) for us...you are amazing parents!