A dreadful goodbye.....and much more!

We had dinner outside tonight!

Grandma and 4 of her 5 grandsons

Lunch together at Chili's Too in the airport

Watching the airplanes outside - look at those cute BUTTS!

The clouds were really low again this morning - pretty cool views

Booktime with Grandma

Lunch time at the park!

Whoever invented these towels was amazing!! Thanks, Pottery Barn for these! We've enjoyed them over the past 5 1/2 years!!!

They are screaming "Happy Valentine's Day!!!"

This is what you get when you cross a 2 year old with a cookie filled with red frosting! (ironically he is standing just like the monster on his shirt :) )

Happy Valentine's Day cookie from Pati - delivered to the front door at 9am!

Hunter got to enjoy a little of Konnor's "Friendship" party at school

Jake and Konnor at the party

Grandma Sherri enjoying a little of the sun we had to offer

A night at the movies!

Movies from the top bunk!

Konnor eating lunch at school - how handsome is he?

Jakob getting a taste of Kindergarten!

Breakfast feast!

We had another sad goodbye today...seems like time goes so fast when we're having fun! Grandma and Jake were due to arrive at 8pm on Wednesday - but while we were eating dinner with Sanjog Wednesday night we got the call they were delayed due to maintenance. Not your normal delay though - a SIX hour delay! Poor Grandma had to entertain a 5 year old in the Omaha airport for 6 hours and this Mommy had to explain to 3 little excited boys that they weren't going to see Grandma and Jake until the morning.

Jake called me at 10:45 our time that they were "on the airplane!" I picked them up at about 2am and we all got off to a very tired start! Reports were that Jake was great considering the circumstances - and I must admit, the Sky Harbor Airport was a little eerie feeling at 2am.

We had 4 little boys awake and rearin' to go at 6:30am. We were off to bring Konnor to school - and then Hunter. We then got to meet up with Konnor at school for lunch. He loves having visitors for lunch!

We didn't do anything too exciting while they were here - so I won't recap each and every day. The boys had a blast playing and going to all the fun parks we have around here. They decorated many Valentine's for Grandma - and made lots of fun messes for me to clean up! It's always so much fun to watch them play like they've been together every day for the past 5 1/2 years. We are so fortunate to see our family so often. We had a few fights to break up - and had to make many attempts to open "closed for business" ears - but all in all, they did pretty well.

I was able to get out for awhile on Saturday night and had a great time. So I owed it to my Mom to allow her to get out Sunday evening so after church - she and Steph took off to Steph's and enjoyed dinner at Pei Wei while I braved Red Robin with the 4 musketeers! They did awesome...and we had a fun night. We had plans to visit the zoo on Monday - but I woke up at about 4 am with either food poisoning or the flu - so had to call my Mom and Steph over at 8am to rescue the boys who had already fed themselves breakfast (the remainder of the gigantic Valentine's cookie!). Konnor did an awesome job of taking care of everyone for me. It wasn't the nicest day outside so no one made it to the zoo but the boys got to play lots of fun games, made lots of cool things, and enjoyed a home cooked meal by Grandma (fish sticks, corn, and strawberries :) )!!!

As always, it's always so sad to see them go. I must hear "I don't want Grandma and Jakob to go home" every couple of minutes but like always, I spoil them extra good after we do the airport drop off just to keep them happy! We had a lot of fun tonight with scooters in the house, dinner outside and a pretty happenin' game of Hide and Seek!! You just can't beat a game of hide n seek with a 5, 3 and 2 year old. It's so funny to see them "hide" and think it's such a tough game. Hunter likes to hide literally right in front of the seeker on the floor - Quinn starts laughing when he's hiding before the seeker has even finished the countdown....it was a fun night at the Gopal/Daale house!

We are exhausted! Konnor has a Patriotic program at school in the morning so I'm sure we'll have more pictures to come tomorrow!

Thanks Grandma and Jakob for all the fun! We can't wait to see you again soon.

The countdown is officially on for Grandpa and Anneke's arrival.....28 days and counting....

We love you guys!