No Matter What

I've learned   "that family and friends are what make us who we are today and without them we would never be complete." This wedding to celebrate brought the dear niece and nephew by us again. We love when they come here. Congrats Jeff and Whitney. They weren't even out the door when the Fox family started arriving at our house to enjoy the company of Kendall's since they returned. It has been quite a few years since we were all living stateside. A nice big back yard is fun to have when there is family to enjoy it with.   With burgers and hotdogs on the grill and homemade root beer with ice cream it was a lovely welcome home! You can see some cousins are enjoying themselves.  I'm not sure who was more excited to play some small goal football...Kendall and his boys or my husband?!!! These $5 yard sale find football nets have been paid off with all the use already. After a super busy weekend like that we cleaned up the place for...

Another month has passed. After that fun weekend at the cabin with friends we spent the following weekend with family. This little miss was my daughter from Fri-Saturday till her parents came. She liked to copy her grandpa. We left her door open to sleep but forgot a light. She woke up crying in her pak-n-play and her auntie was to blame..."Angie put me in here." She slept the rest of the night with her cousins.  Her brother had to have a tooth surgically removed so that is why they came late. We went up earlier than the rest so they could dig out for the new fire pit. Discussions? Debates?...some might call it arguments. All is well that ends well :) I mean...the pant legs are even up! Aleah adores Lauren and will not be put down unless Lauren can get away and hide! one last boat ride...since the pond is being drained. I'm rather bummed about that!  I'll leave you guess who wasn't impressed with this 6+ foot guy. You can te...