January 16 - Over the river and down I80 to Grandmother's (and Grandfather's) house we go!

Ahhh - Friday. The last day of the work week!! Daddy got home from Phoenix late Thursday night, well, actually early Friday morning. He got to the house around 12:30!! Alaina was fast asleep but I woke up long enough to mutter hello and then I was off to dreamy land again! Friday morning I woke up and fed Alaina and got ready. She had a Dr's appt at 9:30 for a re-check on the ear infection and Teddy decided to just keep her home until then, so, baby and Daddy slept in! I went to work early because I had to leave for a Dr's appointment for myself and I wanted to make sure I got all my time in for the day. My appointment went okay and so did Alaina's. The ear infection is gone! Hooray! I got off work at 3:30 and went home to meet Teddy and Alaina to get ready to go back to Iowa to visit everyone. (Aunt Ashley was getting ready to go back to college!) The cable man had come to run cable up to our bedroom as I do not want to wait for some stupid coupon to go buy a converter box. It cost $25.00 to run the cable and now I have cable upstairs! Better than a box as it is! Unfortunately, when Teddy went to get the keys to the back gate so the cable man could get his ladder through, he hit the outlet next to the workbench and jiggled something loose and we lost electricity in both outlets out there, hence, no garage door opener. Ugh. Teddy did his best to "look at it" but as he knows pretty much nothing about electricity we thought it was best to leave it alone...until Sunday. So we packed up and off we went to Iowa. When we arrived grammy had dinner all ready for us and we were able to eat and talk. Then Grandpa and Grammy wanted their cuddle time!! Lainey was really talkative, especially with Grandpa as pictured above! A little later aunt Michelle stopped by on her way home from town. Unfortunately, Lainey had decided she was getting sleepy so she was a tad cranky but Duncan was geared up to play!!! He brought aunt Michelle his rope to play tug not knowing aunt Michelle is not used to puppy dogs! Now, in this picture she looks terrified (which she may have been at least partially?) but the tears I am pretty sure are from laughing so hard as it was pretty funny! I am only sorry I wasn't a little faster at whipping my camera out and getting more!! Thank you for being such a good sport and playing Aunt Michelle! Duncan had a lot of fun! Aunt Michelle left and Alaina was down for the count! I ended up just taking her down to bed and she slept through the night!