A big slumber party in our living room
Rewinding to Memorial Day weekend (uh, yeah, I’m a bit behind here)…
Matt and I talked about going to Nashville to spend Memorial Day weekend with family but decided we weren’t ready to tackle a road trip and multiple visits with a not quite six weeks old baby and an active 22 month old. So, my family decided they would come visit us.
Saturday morning my parents, brother, and two nephews arrived to spend about 24 hours with us. I was quite excited to see my brother and the boys; October was the last time I saw them for any length of time (we are separated by about an 8 hour drive). And I think they were pretty excited to see Little and The Boy.
Soon after they arrived we headed out to eat ribs and then came home to visit and hang out. The guys threw baseball in the backyard (my oldest nephew is big into baseball and quite good at it from what I hear), we passed around the baby, everyone played around with Little. And with Matt, my brother, and the two boys in a house together, quite a bit of rough housing took place.
Saturday evening Matt and I were able to go out for dinner and coffee. It was quite refreshing to step out of the hustle and bustle of our life with the kiddos and enjoy some time together. Thanks to Daddy and Momma for keeping the little ones so we could celebrate our anniversary.
Saturday night all of our visitors piled into the living room on the couch, an air mattress, various pallets. It was quite a site to behold; one big family slumber party. When Little got up Sunday morning she decided it was her job to wake everyone else. She didn’t have any trouble waking Grandmommie and Grandad, but the boys took a little more work. She climbed up on the air mattress between them and started saying “wake up, wake up” until they roused and looked at her. It was too cute watching her try to get the big boys out of bed to play.
It would have been nice to have a little more time together, but it was great to see everyone. Little thoroughly enjoyed the attention of her uncle and cousins! And now we are all looking forward to the next time we’ll be together, during our family vacation in the fall.
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It was a fun weekend! It was great to have our 2 children and all 4 grandchildren in one house (and yard) even for such a short time. We were delighted to keep the little ones for you and Matt to go out. WIsh we were close enough to do it every weekend (with grandparent discretion of course). Thanks for putting up with all of us and allowing the big slumber party!!!
What fun! We had a house full of family this past weekend, and it was so great. It is a treat to see each other when you live so far apart!
How fun! Are you going to post any pictures of Little and The Boy soon? Has he grown much? They are just so cute.
aww jana that sounds so awesome! i’m glad you got to spend time with the fam…i only get home about once a year now and am anxiously awaiting this year’s trip..we’re going down ahead of josh. a family vacation sounds so nice! we’re thinking about doing one over Christmas in Gatlinburg one year!