Thursday, June 21, 2012

visiting family...

Of course, in the midst of all the moving and chaos we had a ton of family visitors. I'm afraid I wasn't a very fun aunt/host/entertainer while they were here. I was pretty exhausted and overwhelmed at that point. But we managed to sneak in a few good times here and there. :)
Angie and Nathan came up for her brothers wedding, and we were so excited to meet this guy for the first time:
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Little Chasey-Chase was blessed...
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Then all the kids jumped in the hot tub, and of course, I didn't bring my kids swim suits, but that didn't stop them!
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This little girl loves the water, and has no fear going under...
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My mom came up for a few days to see N&A (Lets be honest, we all know who she really came to see...Carter & Chase! She always just wants to play with the kiddies!) :) The first night she slept at hour new house, then the next two nights she got a hotel room. I guess she didn't like our new place-we were really offended! She says she got it so she could take the kids and go swimming and give us a few hours to ourselves to organize our house; but I don't know. :) Anyway, she took the kids and they went swimming, then we met up with them for some Applebees take out and when we arrived at her hotel room, this is how she answered the door, in a robe. 
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And the kids were like this on the bed. I had to laugh...yeah, it's a rough life for them!
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She got a suite just for the jet tub right in the room, which we took full advantage of!
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The next day N&A dropped off Carter to go swimming with us, and I had to get this shot of the two naked bums! :)
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Cute swimming cousins...
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I don't know what we were thinking when we took all 4 kids to Target after swimming. We were like a walking circus! We thought that with 2 adults, how much harder could 2 extra kids be? Let me tell you...A LOT! We had to do a lot of bribing and the kids ate a really healthy lunch of slushies, popcorn and a pretzel. 
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That night was Angie's brothers' wedding reception. Taylor was a dancing maniac, dancing with whoever would dance with her! :)
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Carter doing his 'knees' dance and Taylor following suit!
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Dancing with Uncle Nathan...
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Dancing with Angie...
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Dancing with daddy...
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This little guy konked out from all of the excitement of the day...
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After the reception the kids got to spend the night with grandma again. Lucky ducks! It was a nice little break without kids and Ben and I got a lot done in the few hours they were gone with grandma. Thanks so much Bma! :)
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Allen & Kelli and their kids also came up for a few days to see N&A. Tucker is always happy to have this guy around:
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And it's nice to be off diaper duty for a while when Grandma is here, the kids always only want her to change them! :) Lucky Grandma! :)
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The weather was semi-nice so we went out for a little walk. Unfortunately Carter is an escape artist and we only had one stroller, so we doubled them up! :)
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And we even got to go to the theater to see Madagascar 3. It was Taylor's first time to see a movie in the theater. She totally didn't appreciate it, she stopped paying attention to the movie about 15 minutes in, and just wanted to sing, and eat popcorn, and then started saying, 'go home, go home' :) But at least we got to spend some time with our Carter before he left and Tucker and I really liked the movie! :)
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Next, is our month long excursion to Alabama to visit our cousins down there, then Aunt Kayla & Uncle Jason and Kenzie May come to visit! Can't wait to see them! :)

1 comment:

Kelli said...

man, now i'm really bummed we didn't get there sooner to take advantage of grandma's in room jacuzzi!!