Visit from Grandpa and Grandma Macki

My parents came down to visit us here in Arizona. They came down during fall intersession from school, the schools here are on a "modified" year round schedule. The weather has cooled down from the summertime highs but it was still over 100 every day they were here. They arrived on Saturday, September 27, in the afternoon. That evening, I and my mother got to go to the women's session of conference. I really enjoyed listening to the speakers. And that left James and my dad with the boys for the evening. I know they would be fine. The boys enjoyed having their grandparents here. Tylor liked that he was able to get his reading done before breakfast by reading to grandma or grandpa, everyday. I really appreciated that as he tends to follow me around in the morning so that he can check that box off on his daily chart. We played board games with them on Sunday afternoon after church. I don't know how many different games the boys got out and played with them but it was a fare number. Then on Monday, we took them to one of the local swimming pools where we like to go with the boys. The boys like the waterside, lazy river, diving boards and whirl pool, and we (James and I) like that it costs us about $5 to get the whole family in. But that's because there are so many pools here that they have to have a lot of stuff and be cheep in order to get you to come there rather than fall in the one in your own yard. Kyle when down the big waterside for the first time. YEAH! Then of course it was hard to get him off of them after that. We had a great time at the pool, that was partially due to the fact that no one was there. We often had whole areas to ourselves.

On Tuesday, we took them to the zoo. We walked around for about 2 hours and only saw 1/3 of the zoo. If you go to the zoo with Kyle or Ryan, they only look a the animals for about 30 second then move on to the next animal. Unless there is a button to push, then they will stay long enough to listen to the short (1 min) recording. Then Kyle always asks a question about the animal, because the recording peaked his interest.
I rented a stroller for the zoo so I would not have to carry Ryan around as he still finds excuses to not walk when we're there. I got a two child stroller, so Kyle could get in too -which lengthened the amount of time we could stay at the zoo. At one point in time, Ryan was pushing the stroller with Tylor in it. I should have gotten a picture of that, oh well...