Grandview Getaway

This last weekend Haley and I and the grandmothers headed down to the Oakland area to spend time together with Gretchen. Our first difficult job (other than packing up at home) was to kidnap Gretchen.

Once we cleverly replaced Gretchen with Grandpa Bud . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . we headed out to Grandview where we had rented a wonderful B&B House for the weekend.



The house was very private, completely furnished and very beautifully decorated.


There was a large great room where we could all be together, work on our projects and chat to our heart's content.

There was a bed at one end of the room where we could rest and still be in the midst of everything. We also could make use of it when we watched our girl movies.

This bed is too hard.
The other bed is too soft. . . . . . .

This bed is just right!

On Sunday since we were half an hour away from G's church, had only one bathroom and had to be ready pretty early, we dressed and listened to John Piper's message given at the True Woman '08 conference held at Moody. (It was very good and you can download it from their website if you'd like to hear it.)


We brought our own food and cooked fabulous meals. Haley even prepared everything ahead so she could make her famous apple dumplings for us. They were fabulous and we could barely move after eating them!!

Did you notice that we all had on some form of pink? Sunday was pink and pearl day!

Gretchen had a great craft idea. First she read to us from on of the "Little House" books where the Ingals girls had autograph books. Grandma Sisson remembered having had one.

Then we made little books to commemorate the weekend. We each wrote in the other books.


We even made a book for the baby. We filled it with messages for her. Imagine we had four generations there together!

One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.
Psalm 145 : 4