Mother's Day Weekend with Some Family!

Tom's brother and his family made it here this last weekend after a busy week for them in their travels from AZ.  They visited family in Great Falls, Bozeman and Missoula all in the span of 10 days with their two girls!  Saturday we met them at the market downtown, yeah for spring, that is one our favorite spring/summer things to do, go to the Saturday Farmers/People's market and get some fresh produce while drinking some good coffee and eating yummy pastries from the great vendors down there.  This last weekend had only been their second week down there so some stuff is missing but I was surprised that there was still a lot of stuff there.  Then we went to Costco to get a few things and some of us ate some lunch there and then the boys needed to hit REI to look for some shoes and us girls headed back to Lolo where they were staying for the weekend so that the girls could possibly take some naps!

Cousin Zowee (6 yrs.) & uncle Kevin (ageless!) enjoying some kettle corn at the market!

Cousin Noelle (3 yrs) got to ride with Titus in his chariot when she was tired of walking at the market!  So nice!

Titus got his first taste of chocolate on the way to Lolo that day by surprise to all of us except little Noelle who was trying to feed it to him! It was in a kid's Clif energy bar so needless to say the poor boy did not have enough teeth to chew what he had been given and sadly the poor baby ended up choking on it! Poor Zowee was very grossed out by his chocolate puke all over his face and little Noelle did not know any better and little Titus I think was as scared as his mama was, he was crying and I was about to continue freaking out after my initial reaction but the Lord quickly reminded me that that would not help the situation and Noelle didn't know any better. It had slipped our adult minds to remind them not to give the baby anything without asking the mommy first! Anyway, enough of that, we learn from our mistakes!

We had a little cookout that night in the fire pit at the place where they were staying (Carolyn's parents' place). Had some good turkey dogs. We didn't stay too late, Titus needed to get to bed and hadn't had both naps he usually does during the day. He was very tired!

When we got home Saturday night, Titus pretty much stayed asleep from car seat to house!  Daddy was enjoying this!

...and an hour later, before we decided to disturb him to put his jammies on him.

 Sunday morning we met them at church and we attempted to put Titus in the nursery for the first time! He is just in that stage where he wants to be moving around and so we thought the nursery might be a better option for the time. Well he was not about to adjust to that the first try. He lasted about 10 minutes before our little number showed up on the screen to let us know we were needed for him. We will keep working on easing him into it. Then we all went our separate ways so that Titus could nap and they could get things in order for leaving on Monday. After his nap we went out to Lowe's to look for something to plant some flowers in that we can hang over our rail on our little porch out front and we found something that we think will work. Then we met up later with the fam at a Mexican place in Lolo and that was oh so delicious and stuffing! And then we went back to their place to hang out for a little bit and have some dessert! Carolyn had bought a pie at the market, it was supposed to be a blackberry? pie but it did have an M on it so maybe it was Marion berry? either way it was very yummy!

Uncle Kevin reading Titus a book just before we had to say goodbye!

How was your Mother's Day weekend?  Hope you spent some good time with family whether it was just your own or relatives included!  It was so nice for the cousins to get to play together and see how much Titus was interested in being with them, so cute!  And we had some really good time with Kevin and Carolyn and the girls, although I don't know how fond Zowee is of not having her uncle Tom to herself, now she has to share him with Titus and Noelle.  Noelle has grown so much in many ways and LOVED playing with Tom and I which was something new for us!  So special!