Great Aunt Melody Visits!!!!

Last weekend my Aunt Melody, my mom's sister, decided to take a long weekend trip to see us in Texas. We were SO freakin' excited about her visit!! I can't put it into words how hyped up we were for her to come over from Arizona. Within moments, my mom and I were planning her every second (literally!) from landing to take-off! :) Thursday was "greeting and chillin' day", Friday was the Bradshaw's day, Saturday was "sister day", Sunday was Lutz's day (Travis, Christa and Trista) and Monday was IHOP-for-breakfast-before-leaving (whew!) day!

**She's already gone and can't you tell I was excited about her visit!!!**

On Friday, my mom, Aunt Mel and I took Austin to the Play pool. The night before a cold-front came in, so the water was cold and the sky was overcast. I was a little apprehensive about going, in fear the weather would turn sour, but decided that maybe it would just blow over. Well when we got there the water was very cold! I didn't think it would be long before we left since Austin hates cold water (just like his momma). Well my decision was made for me when it started to rain, so that was that and we left. Here are a few pictures of the playpool with Great Aunt Mel:

After leaving, we went home changed, ate lunch then headed to the mall for some.... SHOPPING! Before we started on our quest of random stuff, Austin laid his eyes on the Carousel and began making all sorts of medival noises - so we had to make a pit stop first.

Then after the carousel ride x 2 and picking up some cool awesome gifts, we headed over to Toys R Us where my mom picked up a cute little kitchen for Trista and Austin to play with at her house and Great Aunt Melody bought a perfect gift for Austin ---- his very own Dirt Devil Vaccum!! Keep in mind that I find it rather difficult to vaccum since he treats it like it's his very own ride-on toy and tries to lay in front of it to watch it move. Silly boy, he needed his own. Once we got to my parents house to unload, Scott and I then realized an awesome thing --- that silly little Dirt Devil actually sucks up things!!!!! We were SO excited jumping up and down, whoopin' & hollering about Austin's toy vaccum actually. . . . vaccumming! :) Pathetic, really. . . So after we settled down from the excitement (LOL), we all went to Olive Garden (yum!) and ate entirely too much food.

Unfortunately since I work the weekend plan I didn't get to spend much more time with her as I would have liked, but we did make sure to go to IHOP on Monday before she left back to Arizona. She enjoyed her strawberry-globbed waffles, My mom, Scott and I had normal pancakes and Austin devoured 5 silver-dollar pancakes as well as stealing my bacon!

This spontaneous weekend getaway of hers was awesome! She is the bestest Aunt ever and thus naturally, is the bestest GREAT Aunt ever to Austin & my niece, Trista.