Family reunion

Last week we had a wonderful family get together. My husbands brother Clayton and his wife Stacie came to visit with their little ones all the way from California. With so much distance between all of our family members these moments are treasured. All the kids got along so well and the little girls played dolly's and dress up. Sam and I thought it would be a wonderful idea to fill the sandbox before all the kids came over. Beside the occasional sand grain underfoot in the living room I think it was all together a great idea. The best part was watching the little ones
try and cover themselves in a sandbox 2 x 3 feet. We all toured the town on Monday and ate delicious pizza at Mollie's house. The kids ran around transforming Henry's Transformers and playing with all of his very cool wooden toys. Vienna will miss Penelope desperately -her princess companion is now gone. It was so wonderful to see all the kids together- playing and getting acquainted after such a long time apart. The day that Clayton and Stacie left for home we had a horrible stormy afternoon. That afternoon Vienna and I crawled in our very cold sheets and slept to the sound of lightening and pounding rain. I hadn't napped that long in a very long time.They had to return to our house later that evening because the weather had caused them to miss their connecting flight to Atlanta (secretly we were tickled pink they had to suffer this delay to get the joy of having one more night in their company). Life is too short to have family visits every 2 years.