We just returned home from our trip to WV to visit Grandma and Grandpa, Uncle Paul and Aunt Beth. While we were there we celebrated Andrew's 3rd birthday. And Eric and I celebrated our 5th anniversary. We had such a great time. There aren't very many things that I love more than watching our kids bond with Grandma and Grandpa and their relationships with Uncle Paul and Aunt Beth are really special. They all love our kids so much.
For his birthday, Andrew got Lightning McQueen that talks and does tricks. He loves it so much. It's really fun for the kids to be around Pau and Beth cause they devote all their attention to them. That's the thing that changes when Aunts and Uncles have children of their own. When I was growing up most of my aunts and uncles had no children yet, so I got all their attention and I really loved that.
Grandma and Grandpa have the best house and yard for the kids to play. There's a hill that Grandpa taught Andrew to roll down. That's right, Grandpa rolled down a hill. It was great. Anna rolled down the hill too, but she couldn't help it. She also didn't mind it all that much.
My only regret about going to WV is that we can't do it more often. We have so much fun.
Eric and I went to Pittsburgh for our anniversary and had a awesome day alone. We had lunch at a great restaurant called Six Penn and we got to see a Pirates game at PNC Park. Eric got us tickets that were about 17 rows behind home plate. It was really fun and a great way to celebrate 5 years. One of these days we'll take a big trip. I really want to go back to Cape Cod where we had our honeymoon. Maybe 10 years... you never know.
