Tuesday July 21

Well, we made it home!

We had such an amazing visit with so many family members these last few days!

It has been so great and so much fun!

But man we are exhausted!

We decided to head home today so Dad could have a day home to rest before heading back to work.

Elsie was stuck to Grandmas side all morning.

Grandma tells her stories, she plays make-believe with her, they laugh together.

It really is the sweetest thing to watch.

At lunch Grandma kept teasing Elsie that she was gonna steal her mac and cheese, and Elsie just kept giggling and giggling.

Just the cutest thing!

Heather came and picked up Madi and Cassi to go and have lunch at Megan's house.

Dad and Port went to the store to help Gramps.

After packing up and having lunch, I told Elsie we should go down and see Gramps to give Grandma some time to rest :)

She was not happy about leaving Grandma, and I pretty much had to take her kicking and screaming.

That girl loves her Grandma.

But once we got to the store, she was happy to see Gramps and play with Port around the store.

Got a picture of my 4 Matthews men together in Gramps store.

We sure love being around Gramps too.

He is such a tease and is always good for a laugh.

But he makes sure you know you are loved.

So thankful to have such wonderful in-laws that love me and treasure me as their own.

We got the car all loaded up and was headed out by 3:30.

And we got to see Dave for a few minutes before we left.

So we ALMOST got to see everyone on both sides of the family over these last few days.

We tried to meet up with Kay, but she is in the middle of selling and buying a new home, so that didn't work out this time :(

So we headed home, with our bunny in tow.

The drive wasn't too bad.

There was a point in time it maybe looked like Elsie would be sick, but I distracted her with pictures and she got over it :)

It is so good to be home!!!!!

You know when you come home and you can smell what your home "smell" is?????

Anyway.....our house smelled just like Lowes :)

That's not bad, but I'm not sure it's good either......