Drive by Trip by the Mattsons

Baby Bear, Momma Bear and Pappa Bear...
Hmm... Shouldn't the baby bear have the Smallest glass??

Grandma and Papa Mattson have chosen to be snowbirds yet again this year.  In the past, they have chosen to play in the sun in Phoenix and then Florida and again this year chose to enjoy the month of Feb playing in Florida with their good friends, Al and Sonjia Sjurseth.  As anyone can see who owns a map... Colorado is Not Necessarily on their way to Florida, but we have one thing Florida Does Not... The Double K's!!  So, with bribery of yummy meals, fun chatter, laughter and of course entertainment by our dynamic duo... Gma and Papa decided to swing over in our direction (adding a very Long time to their already long trip).

We have been talking up the visit with Kasey and Karsten for weeks and mentioned it each time we would skype Gma and Papa Mattson.  Soon enough ~ they were on our doorstep ready for some Hugs!  Good thing Kasey and Karsten were on board with that plan!!  Ok, well... Kasey was ready to play with them and Karsten loved to cuddle.

Gma, Look at my hat!

You might notice that I keep referring to Gpa Bill as "Papa".  This was something that came out of the trip.  Kasey tried to say 'Grandpa', but it kept coming out 'Grandma'.  So, he decided to refer to Bill as he does his other Grandpa and started calling Grandpa Bill by the name of "George".  We then settled on Papa for Grandpa Bill.

Karsten wasn't quite ready to holler off names to people, but he was incredibly excited to say "HI!" whenever anyone entered a room.  It really made you want to leave the room often just to get an exciting "HI" upon your arrival back in the room.

Kasey and Karsten both showed off their skills to Gma and Papa during the visit.  Kasey was big on chatter, telling Gma "This is Hard" for everything he was doing.  Karsten was big on cuddles, chasing games and playing Ball.  The rest of our weekend was spent playing with our little men and watching them grow.  As you can see by the pics we were having too much fun!

Touchdown!

Story time at the Cannode house... Must be time for bed

 We did get a day to play as adults while the kids were in school.  Amy and Sandy decided to go shopping (shocker - ha) and Bill and Kris decided to work on some home projects (I finally got my chair rail finished in my Dining Room!!).  No pics of the Actual Labor, but darn... my kids are cute!

Are we done picking out chair rail yet, Dad?

Look, Mom!  How did we get inside the Mirror?!?!

Later that day we got to enjoy, what else, ... PF Changs! (Yum!) and then split up so Amy and Sandy could get pampered at the Salon and Bill and Kris could go meet up with 'the boys'.   In fact, we had Plenty of special meals while they were visiting.

Although Amy got the credit for the ribs,
it was a group effort!

Kasey LOVES Mexican!

A visit wouldn't be complete without a wonderful yummy steak dinner
(Steaks provided by a very good friend who works at JBS)

Kris - Holding Court after dinner

Thanks again to Mom and Dad for coming to visit our family on the way to Florida.  We had a Great time and are on countdown till we get to come to MN for some Fun in the Sun this summer! (We are So Over this Winter stuff ALREADY... Although, it did give us a fun Snow Day off work Today! ~ yeah!)

Miss you guys ALREADY!!