Grandparents Chapel

Last week the kids and I drove to Charlotte on Thursday right after preschool. Hailey of course stayed awake until the last 20 minutes and Reece, not wanting to change it up a bit, slept for 30 minutes and screamed for 2 hours. ;)

Friday was Grandparents Chapel at HGCS, the biggest reason we came! Grams has a tradition of showing off her grandkids at the beginning of chapel and we wouldn't miss it. It would be Reece's first time on stage. Ha! We occupied ourselves in the morning at Grams' house by playing with her bracelets. ;)

Unfortunately, chapel was during naptime but Hailey took a little catnap on the way to the church and Reece did to! When we got there, we met up with Julie and went to get Mack from his daycare class. These two love each other! They held hands all the way to the sanctuary.

Tucker joined us on the front row when his class came in and then the big three ate fruit snacks while we waited for it to begin. Reece was just content to look around at all the people.

Grams called them up on stage at the very beginning. Reece was oblivious, Tucker and Mack were kind of in awe and Hailey...oh Hailey, just watch her face in these pictures
Calmly watching Grams introduce Reece,

 then Mack. Now realizing everyone is looking at me

 Now Grams is talking about her. See her cute grin?!

 And the wave...what a crowd pleaser

Well then, Grams asked her to say her Bible verse...I wish I could upload the video but this will have to do. Sweet Hailey got so excited she pulled up her dress (she had on bloomers, don't worry) and got quite the laugh/gasp from the audience. She said her Bible verse so well, but I don't think anyone heard because they were laughing :(

Oh well, we tried. Hailey was quite in her element on stage and I think she was a little sad to have to get down. One day baby girl.
Mack said a Bible verse too.

We watched Tucker's class sing a song then decided it was time to leave. We were heading to Mimi's house!

We spent Friday afternoon, night and Saturday morning with Mimi and Poppi. Rebecca came over and so did Paw Paw. It is such a blessing that we have two families that love us and our kids so well. I know it is a rarity these days, but I feel as much at home at the Epleys house as I do my own parents and for that I am so grateful.
Poppi brought Hailey some goodies home from work. These silly glasses were a hit

And Reece really enjoyed Bobo (Beau) this time.

We are lucky Beau is so clam with the kids!

Saturday afternoon we headed back to Raleigh to see Daddy and get ready for the busy week ahead! But we are lucky! Mimi and Poppi are coming here next weekend!