1) dad driving to NC (11 hours through the night and home in the day could not have been easy!)
2) holding my niece! 
3) watching Nora with "my baby" (she had trouble remembering Audrey--although I think she has it down now--so she just said "my baby".  The love and gentleness she showed her was amazing!
4) watching Meredith be a mommy (it seems so strange to see Meredith with a little baby but she's doing a great job and made a very cute one!)
5) Nora jumping in the pool
6) meeting Bryan's family (at their 1850s southern plantation home no less)
7) Penny being a tough cookie (the girl fell off the bed, got hit in the head by a door from a dog, and fell off the couch in the two days we were there.  She had bumps and bruises but was still her happy self)
8) safety on the road
9) sunflowers from our garden
10) no strep
11) Nora saying I'm her favorite toy
12) Penny's hugs after timeout
13) cheaper medicine (with some time/work we saved over $100 on Nora's nose spray)
14) a possible renter