Great Time with Grandpa!

What a great time last night!!  My dad (affectionately known as Grandpa) was able stop in for a few hours while on a business trip to spend some time with the family.

We always love it when he can spend time with us because he is a tad on the crazy side, and not the straight-jacket-talking-to-yourself-while-wearing-aluminmum-foil-on-your-head kind of crazy, but the oh-my-gosh-I’m-crying-because-you-are-making-me-laugh-so-hard kind of crazy.  And when my dad and I each serve up our antics and start playing off of each other….look out!

My dad is a great grandpa to the kids.  He spent time tonight playing soccer with the girls, talking about what was going on in their life, and doing just plain ol’ silly stuff that grandpa’s do to entertain their granddaughters.

April and I whipped up a great steak dinner (if I do say so myself) with all the trimmings and we had fun conversation at dinner storytelling about the past events of our lives (the “do you remember when”…) and talking about future plans.

After dinner though, was my favorite part of the night.  I don’t know how it started, but it turned in to a snowball of hysterical laughter.  We were taking pictures of the group with our iPhone and between my dad’s antics, Emily’s odd sense of timing in snapping pictures, and the off the cuff commentary by the rest of us, we all ended up crying because we were laughing so hard.

In looking back at last night, I can tell you that we couldn’t have planned it any better.  The laughter and love were so prevalent that this will definitely go down in the memory book as one of those Great Times with Grandpa!