Perfect Timing!

On September 17th, my beautiful mother flew out to Chicago to pay me and my sister Becca a visit! She started out the first week staying at Becca's house, although I was able to go up for a girls night out one night and my whole family drove out to Geneva to spend the first Sunday she was here together.

The 24th marked the day that my mom would travel down to Westmont to spend a week with my little family! Unfortunately, on the 23rd, our sewers backed up! This is the most mild of the pictures (to spare you the gore). Short story is this: The landlord wouldn't answer the phone messages, texts, or emails that we sent him, so we called a plumber, who wouldn't fix it without permission from the landlord! We ho-hummed around a little until finally I told him that my mom would be arriving the next day to spend a week SLEEPING in the very basement that was covered in POO! The plumber took mercy on me at that point and rotor rooted our drains (for $500!) unscrewed our toilet and dumped it out on the floor, and splashed poo slime all over my basement! I spent the next 10 hours squeegeeing floors, wiping down walls, and bleaching every surface under the sun! And I finished, 30 minutes before my mom arrived! Just in the nick of time :)

While grandma was here, we tried to take advantage of every second we got to be together. We spent lots of time snuggling...

and having great adventures...

walking on beautiful paths through incredible parks...

playing in some pretty fun parks and zoos...

taking leaps of faith...

hanging out with cousins...

and enjoying every moment we could bask in Grandma's wonderful presence!

During her visit, Brooklyn even got to sleep over in Geneva with grandma so she could see her cousins perform in their ward primary program. She felt very special having grandma semi "to herself"

But the highlight of the trip for my girls was when grandma Uda taught them how to make her famous peanut butter fudge, and she even let them lick the pot! Just like old times :)