Last Day with the Grandparents

Today was one of those memorable days for the boys. They experience so much, that they said that it felt like a whole bunch of days in one.
We started out with a pancake breakfast at our favorite campground of the summer – Mystery Mountain Resort, with Kiley’s folks. We then took a short hike across the campground where they excitedly showed their grandparents the “Mystery Cabin”.
After we packed up, we headed over to the big Maze that our family had done a few weeks ago (it seems like only a few days ago –wow this has flown by). The boys begged to take their grandparents through it. Brendon split us up into teams, he and Ian went with their grandpa (PaPa) and Kiley, Karen (Kiley’s mom whom the boys call MoMo) and I went as a second team. The boys wanted to race. We could hear both boys laughing so hard it almost made MY sides ache as they made PaPa run with them. Tom (PaPa) later said that it was one of his favorite memories of the summer with the boys.
Who won? That’s debatable…let’s just say that I held the door at the finish of the maze open for the boys and PaPa to finish first. ☺
From there, it was a quick lunch and we said goodbye to Kiley’s folks and we headed West. It was a sad moment for all of us as we basically have spent the first five weeks of our Sabbatical with them between time in Yellowstone and our time at the ranch. Not many people can say that they enjoy spending that much time with their extended family, but we have such incredible family on both sides, that these times are precious and, believe it or not, very relaxing.
We made a long drive of it and stopped in Hardin, MT just in time for the boys and I to go swimming in the campground pool before it closed for the night. It was hot and sticky so the pool felt awesome.