Fun Surprise

Today was a day full of errands and chores and a little fun. Becca and Andrea were the troopers along for most of the day while Brayden got to have his fun at school. The two do great, Becca even managed to get her seat belt on herself a couple of times-something she most of the time refuses to do. We are getting ready for valentines day and getting family some valentines, anyway Becca's main concern for most of the morning was, who was getting her a valentine and what she was going to get. Such a hard thing to teach the kids to put other's first when then are so worried about not getting or doing something before their siblings.
This afternoon we found out that Ron's aunt and uncle were passing through town and were going to stop in. Kind of a fun surprise seeing as whenever we suggest stopping at our house to family every ones answer is.. Tulsa is not on the way to anywhere we are going-like it's in some different country or something. Actually, since we have lived in Tulsa-10years, our family has found out that it is near to a lot of destinations and is along many travel routes, you just have to make the time to stop. So tonight we had the pleasure of Uncle Tom and Aunt Marilyn for dinner. I was unsure if the kids would remember who they were from the holiday's-but no worries. We were returning to our house expecting them in the driveway and I was rehearsing with the kids on their names. I guess I didn't really need to worry, the kids always seem to have something cute up their sleeve. Aunt Marilyn is Ron's Moms' sister and looks just like her so the kids just called them grandpa and grandma and had a great time.
Thankfully it was still a little nice out so the kids got to show off their bikes-they just love riding, we had to go for a short walk, then we tackled dinner. Seems that when we have company with no children my children seem 1o times louder and crazier than they really are. Thankfully they have a bunch of grandchildren and are used to some chaos. All in all it was a fun night. Andrea kept showing off her bellybutton for Uncle Tom, Becca went to bed saying Uncle Tom had her nose-he kept trying to get it during the evening, and Brayden enjoyed having someone to color pictures for.