Visit with the Sheldons :)

We had a wonderful weekend hanging out with the Sheldon family :)  Shane's parents haven't had a chance to come down to Blacksburg since we moved here, so it was so nice to share our little town and life with them. 

 Shane and I both took Friday off work, and they arrived Thursday just before dinner.  When we welcomed them at the door, they were adamant that we come out and help carry stuff in.  We were trying to get them to just sit down and relax and said we can unload the car later, but they weren't having it!  So, Shane and I headed out to the parking lot around the corner, and there we found Hannah and Cooper standing by the car!  They had surprised us and traveled down with Doug and Diane.  Best surprise EVER! :)

We started the visit with a beautiful drive out to Mountain View in Ironto for dinner - Yum!  It was so nice to share the mountains with the Ohioans! 

Juno wasn't sure what to think of this new center of attention :)  She LOVED licking Cooper's toes and face!  It was interesting to see how she might handle a baby in our household someday.  She was really good with him overall, she just occasionally had to be told to stop licking his face (although he seemed not to mind!) and that the cute toys were not hers.  But Aunt Hannah gave her lots of lovin!

We were trying to get in as much as we could in the 2 full days we had with our visitors!  We had a fun, lazy Friday morning feeding Cooper and watch him roll around on the ground and get SOOO close to crawling!  I could spend all day just watching that cute lil human :) 

Then we headed off to the botanical garden on campus with a sleepy Coop!

We went out for a walk at Heritage Park, one of our favorite places in the area.  We were fortunate enough to have great weather all weekend. 

 I had way to much fun pushing Cooper in the stroller and giving him leaves and grass to play with!

And the rest of the family had way to much fun racing leaves under the bridge :)

Cooper loves being outside!  We hung out in our backyard and watched Juno and the neighbor dogs play a few times.  Anytime Coop starts to cry, if you just take him outside he's so much happier! 

When Shane saw what Cooper was wearing... he decided to bust out his Batman shirt too.  He loves his little nephew so much :)

Thanks to Matt for staying at home to take care of the animals and letting us steal your cute wife and child for the weekend!  We did get to Skype with him a few times, which was really fun!

 Day two we packed in even more fun!  We started out with some shopping - stopping first at Imaginations, an awesome local toy store in town.  Shane and I often go in there because it's so fun and they have the neatest toys and games.  But it was definitely way better going in there with a little one!   I think Cooper had fun.... especially bouncing on his new cow!

Next stop, Annie Kays, a great natural food store where Doug picked up some fun bulk goodies and Cooper to play with a train set! 

Of course we had to swing by the western store while these country folk were in town :)

Followed by a walk around Pandapas Pond!

We had so much fun!! It was a great way to celebrate the first day of fall!  We even saw a few trees starting to change color.

 We had such a great visit with the family.  It's always so hard to say goodbye... Shane and I were sure to soak up extra Cooper hugs this morning before they took off!

We miss you already, Sheldons and Nixons! Come back soon! :)