I have 4 aunts on my moms side and they live all over the states from Arizona, Texas, and a couple in California. It is rare that we are all able to get together but for grandmas birthday we all made it a priority to come together for her.
My cousin Jenn and her baby Annabelle (named after my grandma) were also able to make it all the way from Chicago. It truly was awesome to all come together again.
A fun weekend was planned to go to Roger Rocka's Theater house in Fresno and then Merced on Sunday for cake, ice cream, presents and football. ;-) We were able to carpool and had a nice hotel in Fresno to break up the road trip.
The show was good, but for me, the best part was just to have everyone together having fun and laughing. Laughing at the show or laughing at random inside jokes we already made up like, "you're such a deadbeat." (or really anytime you can use the word deadbeat haha). Or anytime anyone is acting different/strange blaming it on them probably being addicted to some sort of pills, sharing awesome stories like CJ and the kid at her school, and sharing YouTube videos (honey badger) and pictures online. It's constant laughter when we are all together.
The next day we cruised to Merced for a quick stop. I finally got to see my baby Kae and love on her a bit. I have really had my fill of baby love lately. Ohhhhh it feels sooooo good.
I just trips me out that there is already a whole new generation sprouting up. Little Annabelle and Kaelyn were playing so sweet together and at some point it hit me, when the heck did we all grow up? Now there are a bunch of babies roaming around!!!!! OMG its almost too much for me to comprehend sometimes!! It just makes it all the more important that we continue getting together and allowing the little ones to build relationships with each other like we had when we were little. That really is one of the most important things in my heart, keeping family together.
I took a bunch of pictures for Grandma and could've taken a lot more.
Here is a video of Annabelle at my house on Friday night. She was barking back at Daisy!! haha!! I gave the dogs a bone and put them in my room and for the most part they were fine but the second I took the bone away Daisy started back up again. At some point Jenni realized that she was barking back with a little, "ehh". So funny....
Smart little thing.
Here are my top favs from the party....
1 comment:
Very nice Amy! Well written. You are trippin'? Gosh, sometimes it just takes my breath away how quickly time flies!! Thanks for capturing the LOVE! Hey, did you ever start your prayer journal? This photo shoot should be your DAY 1!! Remember?
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