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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

April: Grandma Pam and fam!


Have I mentioned lately that living seven minutes away from my mom is pretty great? Like that time she invited us over for FHE treats, aka delicious banana splits, mmmmm. And she has a pretty fantastic playroom for herself, I mean the kids. Besides the few pieces that Sam has stolen, my mom still has most of the original Fisher Price collection of Little People and their buildings and such. They will be mine someday...
One new thing over at her house that the children are VERY excited about and I am NOT at all excited about are some rabbits. They have Harry Potter names (probably in an effort to get me to like them. Won't work.) and the kids are obsessed with them, except Will doesn't like getting scratched. That's my boy.

Grandma Pam comes in very handy as a Sunday afternoon nap buddy when Mom is at choir practice maybe? A board of review? Who knows.
Grandma Pam is also an excellent escort to a princess tea party at the high school! The lovely Janell gave us tickets so I sent them on their way in all of their pink glory and they had a great time :).

Oh man. We're not like bonded and insured or anything, but other than that my mom and I are basically professional packers/movers. In this case it was my mom's old storage unit that was then Cody's storage unit that was then not really necessary but full of treasures that took two different days and two different trips in my truck to empty.
My mom and I have a history of adventures like this - someday we'll write a book! Once our moving business slows down a bit. And our other side venture - the P & J Detective Agency ;).

April brought the return home of two very special people: Larry and Iris! They spent eighteen months in South America serving a mission (fun fact: they met as missionaries serving in Chile... not that long ago ;) ) and it was so fun to watch their children and grandchildren greet them. They were able to have a couple day layover in Arizona with their kids and grandkids down there before coming to Boise so no one was missed!
Loved watching my mama see her brother and sister-in-law again!!

More from the airport - Justin coordinated a beautiful 'welcome home' moment - everyone singing 'Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing' while he accompanied us on his guitar. I had fun getting to know Sawyer and watch in amazement as he fiddled with that crazy Rubik's cube - I was so sure it was impossible to finish, but he proved me wrong! And I love the picture of Clyde getting to wear Uncle Larry's hat :).
The next day Larry and Iris spoke in church so Carma and I headed over to hear them and it was so strengthening to hear their testimonies and how the Lord works in our lives. Afterwards we loitered in the gym for some second cousin fun!

I grabbed a few of the kids and lined them up for a picture because they're all SO cute!! I don't see Ryan and Steph as much as I should considering how close we live so seeing those gorgeous girls again was amazing and I don't see Janessa's family very often so I loved getting to know her boys - and introducing Carma and Hazel! They're only four months apart but alas, aside from Carma stealing Hazel's little doggie at one point, there was minimal interaction ;).
L to R: Carma, Sawyer, Rachel, Pierce, Kara, Hunter, Hazel.

And on our way out, I made Andrea take a selfie with me. Andrea is an incredibly cool cousin. I was born on her first birthday and she's never been mad at me for making her share it with me :). She's brilliant and gorgeous and funny and thoughtful and I wish I remembered what I said before the first picture to make us laugh that hard hahaha:
So I guess that's yet another reason why I love my mama - because I get to be related to all these cool people on her side of the family! Yay Hunters!

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