Scott's family visited us last week. It was so awesome seeing them, but I have to say I'm relieved it's over. Even good stress is stress. They drove out again and stayed at a nearby hotel. We had fun visiting Huntington Gardens, Santa Monica, having pool parties and bbq picnics. Seeing them with Isabella was so amazing. Especially Grandpa Neil...he didn't want to do anything but hold and play with her. I hardly got to hold my own baby for a week! I spent a lot of time holding her after they left...it was like I missed her. She started sleeping through the night that week, which was great (even though she usually didn't get to bed until 11ish), but now she's back to her usual 4/3/3 routine. We're going to put together her crib next week cuz she's gotten too big for her bassinet already. She got her first shots on Monday (poor boo-boo) but thankfully no ill reactions to the shots. She's alreay 12 pounds and growing like crazy. People are right, they grow so fast!

I have to say that I'm still extremely happy with my in-laws. I find it hard to get close to Angel and Grant though. Also, they hardly talk to me...they don't ask me any questions about me. I ask a ton of questions about Angel and how she's doing with Austin, but she's more private I guess so I don't really know how she really feels. It's hard to be close to people when you're so far away. Elaine is wonderful of course, but definitely pessimistic. For instance, when Grant was buying some clothes for his gf, she was constantly saying things like "Is that the right size?... She has tons of white in her wardrobe... Are you sure she'll like that?"...etc. I'm sure she was just trying to be helpful, but gosh...let the kid just buy some stuff for his gf already! When we were at Huntington Gardens and Neil was going to let us out so he could find parking, she was convinced he wouldn't be able to locate us on the grounds. I think it's the way she says things that I find so negative. I think it's a control issue...I have the same exact issues. I don't mean to be so critical, but when you see someone else doing it, I realize I have to change my ways. Scott gets tense around his family for some reason, so we had to have a few "talks."

Now that all of our family visits are over, we finally get to have some down time. This weekend is going to be a ton of fun lounging in the pool, doing nothing...just the 3 of us again. :-)