Rachel and Santana sat at their kitchen island looking over the program slash invitation for the art show that they had received in the mail. It was beyond what they had originally imagined. The front was done up with Denise's art gallery logo, a palette and brush set, and each page was filled with high gloss photos of all the work that the kids had done. Santana's work was also featured inside, however she had been adamant that her photos be the smallest and in the back. She didn't want the kids work to be overshadowed by anything. Her only compromise was letting them put her name on the front as co-host so that people would know she would be there. No matter how it sounded, the truth stood that her name would bring in the people. Nobody knew that she had already been in touch with some of her best buyers and asked them to spread the word around about the show as a favor to her.
A couple of places, including the biggest art store in St. Lawrence and Reeds Productions, were running advertisements daily for the show also. As far as Santana knew, Peter's crew would be there to record some of the show for the documentary, which was already in the first stages of editing. They still had a lot to film at the new home considering the ending of the documentary would be move in day. All in all, everything was coming together just as it should.
"This is amazing. Denise's photographer and the printers done an amazing job. I'm surprised we got them already." Rachel awed as she turned the page in the program.
"Cole and Maurice Prints always do amazing work. They're the only ones who ever do my programs, because they truly are the best and they cut Denise a deal since she is their number one customer. Denise must have spent all day sending these out over night. She could have called and asked for help, but I am sure all of assistants were made to help." Santana laughed as she stood up and moved towards the stove where she had home made cinnamon buns baking.
"Probably. Those smell amazing." Rachel was practically on the verge of drooling as she watched Santana pull the pan of cinnamon buns out of the oven.
"They are going to taste amazing too and we have most of the day to enjoy them. Nothing to do today except enjoy being here and going to the new home later today." Santana smiled as she sat down the pan and leaned over the counter to give Rachel a kiss.
"I know, I just feel so bad for the new studio manager. I don't know how she done it, but she had three people scheduled for one studio at the same time and no one realized it until we all got there. Cindy and I gave up our spots since we are working on long term albums and let The Gazers have it since they're doing a Christmas album. Quinn normally does all of that, but with Davis here now and her being my full time agent, Puck asked if she wanted to let someone take over for a while." Rachel explained as she grabbed a fork that Santana had laid down and pulled one of the cinnamon buns out of the pan and onto a plate.
"I'm sure that was tough for Quinn to delegate some of her work load." Santana continued moving about the kitchen, setting a glass out on the counter so that she could make smoothies. She and Rachel needed something a little more healthy than just cinnamon buns for breakfast.
"It weally was." Rachel mumbled with her mouth full. She couldn't help herself, these cinnamon buns were amazing. Even if the time wasn't right for it, Rachel still firmly believed that eventually Santana should open up a restaurant one day.
Santana scrunched up her nose as she watched Rachel laugh at herself for talking with her mouth full. Pfftt, people thought she was going to be the one to teach the twins bad habits? Rachel was the number one person to teach them how to talk with their mouths full. "Since we don't have anything to do this morning, do you want to search for some stuff for the girls? We definitely need to order their beds and I don't know maybe we can find some cute clothes and toys for them."
Rachel nodded her head quickly. The idea of them finally being able to pick stuff out for the twins was a great feeling. It was only a matter of time before they would be able to bring their girls home. Rachel was also excited because she and Marley had plans to start painting the nursery tonight if the paint had been delivered. Hopefully their wall decals were on their way as well. "Are we going to get the beds we looked at already or do you want to shop around some more?"
"We can shop around some more and we're going to have order sheets and blankets, new winter clothes and shoes. They're going to need wedding clothes too, I assume they are going to be our flower girls?" Santana asked.
"Of course they are and we can get their dresses when we meet with Kurt about our wedding outfits." Rachel rested her head on her fist as she began to get lost in thought about everything the girls would need. They needed all of their bedroom stuff, winter clothes, boots, pajamas, sippy cups, their own plates with forks and spoons, in addition to their milk, snacks, favorites foods, pull ups, baby wipes...There was so much stuff that wasn't even on the list.
"I can't wait to see what he comes up with for them to wear." Santana said as she looked down at all of the ingredients she had gathered to make smoothies. Yogurt, banana's, strawberry's, and a little bit of french vanilla shake powder, these were going to be so good.
Rachel was brought out of her day dreaming by the sound of the blender. All she had to do was look at Santana and she felt instantly calm. It didn't matter what all the girls needed, Santana would help in making sure they got everything and more. She was the kind of person who wanted to give her loved ones the world, no matter the cost. Rachel found herself slowly falling into another day dream just as her phone started ringing. She grabbed it instantly just in case it was a number of very important people.
"Hello?" Rachel answered as she smiled in thanks when Santana sat her smoothie down onto the island. "Yes, they are Santana's parents. You can let them in. Okay. Bye Duncan."
Before Rachel could even begin to explain what that was about, Santana burst out laughing. She knew instantly what she had done. Yep, she forgot to tell Duncan that her parents were in town and they may come up to the cabin. "Oopsie...they're going to be a little ticked off when they get up here."
"I wonder how long they sat down there before he called?" Rachel too found herself laughing, she could help it. Santana's laugh was glorious and contagious when she really got going.
"I don't know. I wonder what they are doing though, I thought they were going to explore McKinley today before going with us to the home this evening." Santana peered out of the kitchen window, looking for her parents car. She was a little nervous to have them up here since she had done so many upgrades to the cabin. It only took a minute before the little black Prius they had rented pulled up in front of the house. Santana was surprised as her parents climbed out, it was still odd to seem them in street clothes, but refreshing in a way. She watched as they looked around the front of the cabin, obviously taking in the changes that she had made on the property over the years. Nothing really had changed in terms of the cabin looks besides redoing the wood every year to keep it from eventually rotting away. Marcus walked around to the trunk of the car and pulled out a large bag, well that really peaked Santana's interest. Her parents had presents...maybe.
"I'll go let them in." Rachel jumped up and practically ran to the front door, Dax and Dahlia bouncing around excitedly at her feet. It was like they knew people were here, people that would probably play with them some more.
"I hope she isn't upset that we just showed up like this." Maribel spoke quietly as Marcus pulled out a large tote bag from the trunk of the car. There were presents for Santana, Rachel, the twins and even the dogs that they had heard about from Leroy and Bayani. No, they weren't trying to buy the love of their daughter, but they did have a few birthday's that they really needed to make up for. This was the start of a whole new relationship and they really wanted it to be special.
"Maribel! Marcus! It's lovely to see you." Rachel greeted them as she opened the front door, Dax and Dahlia shot out of the cabin at full speed. Dax immediately headed towards Marcus to sniff the bag, he knew something was in there that was for him. Everyone always brought him the best presents. "Dax! Down boy."
Marcus laughed a hearty chuckle. "He's fine, he knows I have something for him." Marcus dug around in the bag and pulled out a blue rubber frisbee. Rachel swears Dax almost peed himself in excitement. Since he decided to eat his last brand new frisbee, he hadn't been allowed to have one for a while. Rope toys and his baby penguin were his only play things at the moment. Dahlia was excited to see if she had gotten something too, however she was content to stand in front of Maribel and let the older woman rub her ears and pet her head. She could get her toy later, soft pets took priority for now.
"Mami, Papi, not that I'm not happy to see you, but what are you two doing here?" Santana asked as she came out on the porch to stand next to Rachel.
"We just wanted to see you two and see the cabin. We had plans to come right after you called Monday night, but it was late and we have a few things we needed to pick up first. You've done an amazing job up here Mija. It's absolutely beautiful." Maribel stood back up to her full height and walked towards the steps. Her father would be beyond proud of how Santana had taken care of his homestead.
Santana looked around. "I'm pretty proud of it." She said with an affirmative nod.
"Have you done any major changes inside?" Marcus spoke as he came up behind Maribel. Dax was trotting along happily with his new frisbee in his mouth.
"I added a new guest bedroom and a studio for Rachel. That's also her screen room out there." Santana pointed across the yard to the tiny building that was currently closed up with the shutters on all the screen windows. Rachel felt bad that she hadn't been out there to her building in a long time, but Santana understood that they had truly been too busy. That was also the reason she herself hadn't been able to make it out to her tree house.
"Did you ever finish the tree house?" Marcus asked with child like excitement.
"I did, I will take you out there before you leave Papi. I'll take you out to the field too and you can see what I have done with the garden. We had such a good year this year. I canned and dried out I don't know how much stuff." Santana smirked a little. She couldn't help it, this was her time to really shine and show her parents that she really had been able to take care of herself all of these years...without their help.