We've recently said goodbye to Jenny's mum, who has made her fifth and final visit to us during our three years here in the States before we move on to Tanzania. Abigail was really excited that Nana was coming once again and keeps saying how much she misses her ever since she left.
Nana won major brownie points when she brought a princess cupcake package with her for Abigail to make, involving both colouring and baking (Abigail's two favourite things!) Day one of her visit the weather wasn't great ... so that very first day, the pair of them had fun in the kitchen together!
From that moment on, the fun just kept on happening ... stickers with Nana, while Naomi was having a snooze ... and Nana catching her own 40 winks another time too ...
As well as Nana totally getting ambushed by a very pleased with herself young lady ... look more closely at picture ... Nana is under there somewhere!
We visited Amish country a couple of times, including a meal with a lovely Amish family. The photos below were at Hershbergers petting farm. Nana helped Abigail wind up the animal food to the goats on the roof and when she was taking a pony ride.
Abigail who usually runs a mile from anything small and fluffy, wanted to touch everything. (How to prove her mummy wrong, the day after she had written a blog post about her not liking little fluffy animals!!! ... No Fear)
As well as trying out all the hand-made rocking horses in the adjoining shop and we mean ALL of them ... one by one!
Jenny is making a quilt for her mum. She had wanted to be a little further along than she actually was by the time her mum visited but on the plus side it meant that her mum got to see it in the making.
We also got to go out for a few different meals and very large ice-creams, enjoyed by all!
Shopping and being silly in Roscoe Village ... and of course Nana joined us at VBS for three of five the evenings!
We enjoyed a walk to the park one of the mornings VBS was on ... and both Sunday afternoons we were all silly and had water fights in the paddling pool in the garden.
Of course we also had some trips to the 'real' pool. Abigail was really excited that Nana got to see some of her swimming lessons and Jenny was pleased to have a second set of hands so she could be silly in the water with Abigail without having to look out for Naomi too.
The Olympics were on while Jenny's mum was here and she had given us bunting earlier in the year and brought out a big Union Jack Flag when she visited, both of which we displayed on the front porch. We're not really waving goodbye to Nana here but she took the photo ... we had lots of fun while she visited and we do miss her so we thought it was a fitting picture to end with.
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