Me-Mo comes for a visit

Rick had to go away on a work trip to the Bahamas from this past week. I know most of you are thinking, "poor Rick," right??? :) He did have a very good time at Atlantis riding on the lazy river and the water slides but is glad to be coming home to see us and we are very happy that he is coming home....we've missed him like crazy! We got a special treat though since Rick went out of town....my mom, better known as Me-Mo to Will, came to stay with Will and myself for a few days to keep us company and we all had so much fun together, especially my mom and Will! I don't have pictures of much of what they did but they did a lot! They rode bikes, played in Will's pool, watched some movies, finger painted and colored and I'm sure did some more stuff but I can't remember everything. They headed to Rock Hill on Tuesday to watch a movie with Emma and Elizabeth and a few of the kids from the church and then after that was over headed to my mom's to hang out with them a little longer and to see uncle Kent and Daddy-mo! Will was so excited about going to visit Rock HIll again! They headed back to Columbia that evening and met me at Will's swimming lessons.....Me-Mo thoroughly enjoyed getting to watch Will learning all that he had learned in the lessons! After the lessons we headed out to eat at Olive Garden and it was absolutely delicious! My mom said that she was treating me to dinner for mine and Rick's anniversary since he wasn't here to celebrate with me! :) Me-Mo had one more day of play today (6/10/09) and they played so hard that Will actually took a nap - almost 3 hours (my actually coaxed him into going on a ride in the truck in hopes that it would put him to sleep b/c he needed it and it worked)!!! Those of you who know Will, know that's a miracle but he was beat! He woke up just in time for me to get home from work and head to swimming lessons....unfortunately they were canceled for tonight due to some bad storms so Will was a little bummed about that! We headed back towards the house and stopped and got some food and I told Will we would have a "picnic" in our bonus room once we got back home so that cheered him up! So...as soon as we got back we went upstairs, laid out a spread and ate our dinner and played a little longer. Unfortunately after we ate, we had to say our good-byes to Me-Mo because she has to go to class in the morning! My mom and I of course cried...it's our usual routine! Will was asking us why we were crying and we had to explain to him that we were going to miss each other. :) After Me-Mo left Will was saying, "I miss Me-Mo...she's going to come back tomorrow right?" We'll see her soon enough and I'm sure we will shed some more tears! :) Thanks again momma for coming to just hang out and help us out with everything!!! I so enjoyed the time together and just getting to hang out just the two of us and look forward to the next time we can do it! :)

These are pictures from our picnic with Me-Mo:













Me-Mo also brought some sea shells for Will to do a countdown for our family beach vacation! He loved this so much so we'll be continuing it every night until we leave next weekend! He takes a shell out of his container every night and puts it on the end table by our couch and then takes the shells that are left, lines them up on the table and counts them out and screams out at the end how many days until Garden City! It's so cute so I decided to get a video of it tonight.