My Dad & his wife Melody came all the way down from Edmonton to visit with us for a few days in September. They haven't been able to come down since just after Mason was born 4 years ago so it was a great treat to have them with us. Ryan went to the doctors the day before they arrived and got a tetanus shoot booster, which he had a terrible reaction to. He was sick in bed for all of their visit which he felt horrible about. 
They brought us some treats from the Great White North, which where much appreciated and well enjoyed for a long time after they went home. We still have some that I have hidden from the kids.I took the kids out of school for a day and we took Grandpa Bo & Nana Bo, as my kids call them to Ogden's Eccles Dinosaur Park. We saw big Dinosaur skeletons, life sized statues & even robot dinosaurs.
Mason was a pretty freaked out by the robot dinosaurs & all the life like sounds they had playing, but he kept close to his Grandpa Bo or me and got better as we went on. Once he understood that they weren't alive or real he calmed down. Mason really bonded with my Dad while he was here and they had fun digging for dinosaur bones together.
After the park we went to lunch, and then Grandpa took them to Target to pick out a "prize" for each of them. Holly got My Little Pony's which she had Grandpa Bo play with her latter that day. Ethan got Pirates of the Caribbean Lego video game, which he tries to play on a daily basis & Mason got an Imagine X Dinosaur, of course. Mason even slept with it for the next few nights after he got it. 
Although we had just a few short days with them we had a really great time visiting, playing & showing them our own little part of Utah. Thanks for making the time to come down Dad & Melody, we had a great time and the kids still talk about your visit. I'm so happy that Mason took to my Dad so well. He tried to be sitting with if not on his lap the whole time they were here and even now remembers Grandpa Bo in his prayers every night. That in and of it self is the greatest thing about their visit.
