Eau Claire visit

Eric had to travel to Maine for work last week, so I packed up the kids and Miles and headed to Eau Claire for a few days.  It's always nice to have the chance to go for longer than a weekend as our time always fills up so very quickly.  Great Grandpa Arnie and Great Grandma Edie came to visit the first night we arrived.  Grandpa had been busy picking morel mushrooms and brought us some for dinner. (Morels are extremely plentiful on the home farm under decaying Elm trees.) This was an awesome surprise, because I thought I was going to miss out this year! We hadn't seen Grandma and Grandpa since they left for Florida in January, so it was nice to visit with them and see that they are doing well.

We spent the next few days playing with the horses, doing a little shopping, and went to visit Great Grandma and Grandpa Danzinger.  Grandma was ready to play with the kids and had some fun toys ready for them.  She knows how much Nolan loves playing with balloons and always makes sure she's well stocked.  Grandpa Ralph celebrated his 87th birthday the week prior, and it made me happy to get to see them both doing so well.  It's quite remarkable and beautiful to me to know that my kids have relationships with each of their great grandparents.  We are very fortunate.

Dad took off work early one day and we took the kids down to the Children's Museum. It is such a neat place with three floors of imaginative play.  Nolan especially loved playing bank and sending money through the tube and Livi loved playing at the grocery store.  They even had a cow to milk, a Harry Potter lego sculpture, and a digestive tract to climb through!  They kids had an absolutely wonderful time - I'm sure we'll be heading back when we go back to Eau Claire.  

We had such a nice week together!  It went by quickly and it was action-packed (and certainly tiring) but so nice to spend the time together and to have help with the kids while Eric was away.