What an amazing weekend, we had loads of fun and a little adventure too! Ryan was especially excited to have a relaxing three day weekend, and we were excited to spend it with him! On Saturday we had our first small gathering at our place. Dana, Brooke and Eva came over for the afternoon to hang, eat and swim! It was definitely nice to do some chopping and cooking in the kitchen in preparation for guests...it felt "normal" since we were very familiar with hosting back in Michigan. ...and I like normal :)
Well, Uncle Dana definitely passed the initiation this past Saturday. Yup, he pruned just like the kids from being in the water all day! The girls had a blast swimming with Uncle Dana, and being tossed up in the air and falling back into the water was definitely the highlight!
Eva is definitely the queen E around our family! Even Ryan talks "baby talk" hoping for one of her famous smiles, which actually come pretty easily. She takes after her lovely smiling mama :)
Ryan's cousin Jessie and her boyfriend, Sabuj from LA stopped over later for a beer and chat by the pool since they were in town for the weekend. Eva was thrilled with Sabuj from the start, if you only saw the huge smile on her face, it was precious. She welcomed him with open arms!
As you can see Rowan was thrilled to get a HUGE hug from her familiar cousin Jess! Even though it was a quick visit, it was so nice to catch up with them and learn more about Sabuj! Now its our turn to drive up to LA to see their city!
Our family is so lucky to have Brooke, our very own event planner to help us adventure to a new area near San Diego on Monday the 4th! She is so great at researching new things to do for her family, and now that we are in town, we are blessed enough to tag along! She found this Old Fashion 4th of July Celebration for us to check out. There was music, crafts, games, food, trains, quilt show, pretend gun fights, etc. Aunt Brooke jumped right in with the girls to make a windsock at one of the craft tables. ...clearly this was serious business :)
After a lot of prodding, the guys finally agreed to show off their guns!
Here is our sad family picture, since Merrick just couldn't put on his happy face we all had to put on His sad face. Actually, Merrick was just very tired at this point and was sooo ready for a nap. Thankfully Merrick was able to take a nap with Dad when we got home to rev up for the fireworks!
No comments:
Post a Comment