Our Weekend with Gary & Betty

This weekend my parents came to visit!  My dad had a cattle event nearby on Sunday so they just decided to make a weekend of it, and we packed in as much as we could!  Friday night we met them for dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse.  Logan's favorite food is steak and the rarer it is the better, which means the kind that Grandpa Gary gets is perfect!

Logan eyeing Gary's prime rib during the entire meal.

After scoping it out he finally chose the piece he wanted.

 After we ate we went and checked out the house before taking Logan to a birthday party.

Dad looking out the kitchen window.

Our development has a private pond for those living there to use.  It is stocked with fish so of course Gary wanted to check it out.  We saw quite a few around the bank so the boys are anxious to put the fishing poles they got for Christmas to use!

Saturday night Drayden swam at the hotel pool for a while before calling it a night.  The next day the boys had baseball practice so my mom, dad, and I hit up the Cedar Rapids Farmers Market and the Newbo City Market.  We met the boys for lunch then Jamie and Logan headed home while the rest of us checked out the Macbride Raptor Center which is the home to several birds that have been injured or human imprinted and can no longer live in the wild.

It was overcast all day and luckily we only got rained on as we were headed back to the car!  That night we ate at a really good Supper Club and somehow the boys talked their way into spending the night at the hotel with grandma & grandpa!  The next day my dad went to the cattle event and the rest of us checked out some of our favorite houses on the Parade of Homes again for more ideas.  We both ended up getting done at about the same time so we dropped my mom off with my dad and they headed back across the state.  We all had a great time and hopefully the next time they come to visit our house will be done and they'll be staying with us!