Bonnett-Castillo Family Blog

This weekend my mom came out to visit us, she got here Thursday and left tonight. We didn't do too much on Thursday, Friday we celebrated Landon's birthday, and Saturday night my mom and Tyler babysat so Charlie and I could go to a wedding. Some of his friends from his 1st duty station were getting married here in San Diego. I was kind of dreading leaving Natalie because for the past few days she had been in a "Mommy mood", where she pretty much needs to be able to see me at all times or she freaks out!! But, everything ended up ok, she cried off and on for awhile but then cheered up and was a happy girl for the rest of the night. My mom sent me pictures throughout the night to show me Natalie was doing good and having fun. The wedding was nice, Charlie knew a few people there so that was nice. We ended up having nobody else at our table, it was assigned seating and 3 other couples were suppose to be with us, but they didn't show up. So it was kind of like we were on a date :) Dinner and dancing!! I even got adventurous and tried a couple new drinks that I have never had, a Cosmo and a Lemon Drop, and I enjoyed both of them.

Natalie (with a little help from Mommy) made Grandma a few gifts for coming out to babysit. We had a few empty container and lots of scrap booking supplies... We used an empty formula container to make a gift can to put all the other gift in, on the front we wrote "World's Best Grandma", and then inside we used an Altoids tin (decorated of course) to store marble magnets we made with Natalie's picture in them, on the tin it said, Grandmas are like moms with lots of frosting. We also used an empty baby food jar to put M&Ms in, and decorated the jar, I can't remember what that one said, but it was another cute quote about Grandma's. I meant to take a picture, but I forgot.

Today before my mom left we were able to make a trip over to the pool. It was a nice sunny day, and perfect for the pool. Natalie got in the kiddie pool, it was only 1' deep, but it didn't really work for her because she tried to sit down and then her face was in the water... so we took her into the regular pool and she was in an inflatable ring. She had a lot of fun splashing in the water, and was even kicking her legs! Next summer she will be getting swimming lessons.

Now, here are A LOT of pictures from the past couple weeks:

Grandpa Paul's last day visiting,

we went to the beach (even though it was freezing)!