Grandpa Lee and Denny's Grape Jelly

We had a great day today!  Grandpa Lee came up today to install the new garage door opener that he and Grandma Sheryl got us for Christmas.  Our old garage door opener worked, but it had no remote and you had to hold the button down to close it.  (Our house inspector said it looked like it was homemade.)  Since there was no remote, after driving out of the garage, one of us would have to get out of the car, close the garage door, and leave through the side door.  It is really bad in winter when the driveway is icy and the snow is piled up outside the side door.  As a result, we often left it open while we were gone, which isn't convenient either as a neighborhood stray cat has seized the opportunity to take up residence in our basement!  So needless to say, we have been super excited to get a new garage door opener. 

I took a few pics today.

Lena playing in the living room before Grandpa Lee got here.  She did a nice job of entertaining herself while Mama did laundry and picked up around the house.  

The garage door installation seemed to go pretty smoothly.  We told Grandpa Lee that we would take him out to Denny's to eat when he was done.  He loves Denny's and all of the ones in Fort Wayne closed.  But we still have them here in the Grand Rapids area, so we treated him to that as a thank you for the garage door and installation.

Lena made quite a mess of herself at dinner.  She kept dropping food down the front of her shirt, which was kind of funny when it was cracker crumbs, but got pretty gross when it was grape jelly!  Daddy gave her a cracker with grape jelly and it ended up everywhere.

"Mmm, grape jelly!"

The funniest part was when Jim first gave her the cracker, she looked at it for a second, then proceeded to lick the jelly off before eating the cracker.  I love how she's looking at me sideways in this pic, like she knows she's being mischievous!  If you look closely, you can see the jelly squirting through the holes on the other side of the cracker.  What a mess!

We had a fun visit with Grandpa Lee.  Lena loves it when people come to visit her.  She really likes to play with Grandpa's beard too!

Thanks so much, Dad, for the garage door opener and for installing it for us.  We really appreciate it!  It was nice seeing you today.

Tomorrow we are off to Historic Trinity in downtown Detroit.  Jim will be preaching at the midday Lenten service there.  I'll try to take some pics to post later.