June: hanging out with Queden

Quinn and Eden and Isaac and Leila came up for a visit, hooray! We met over at Grandma Pam's house with some Hunter second cousins for everyone's favorite afternoon activity: bunny chasin'. My dislike/fear of rabbits is well-documented, but there is something pretty hilarious about watching like ten different kids and adults sprint after one little bunny :).

Eventually the bunny (which probably has a name... which I probably haven't bothered to learn... I prefer to take the Harry Potter route and not say my enemies' names aloud...) was captured and given to a delighted Leila to snuggle with. SO cute!

Of course, while everyone else was high tailing it about to catch the bunny, Carma was... modeling stolen sunglasses and munching on Cheetos and ice cream. Atta girl!

And of course it was so much fun to see Amanda and Cecily and Kara and Rachel and Larry and Iris and Nathan and Aaron! The middle picture is a pretty accurate prediction of where Quinn and Eden will be in like ten years: surrounded by their eight children, probably harmonizing between gigs a la the von Trapps or the Partridge Family. 

I made Clyde and Cecily sit together for a picture because we all think they look so much alike! They're just under a year apart in age (Cecily is older) but in the same grade and some Hunter gene has manifested itself strongly in these cute second cousins.

Amanda not only earned a spot on Leila's faves list, she also was recruited as Will's partner in creating a new language. 

After the Hunters took off, we headed over to the park for some fun there. I totally staged this hand-holding and I have no regrets because it turned out even cuter than I imagined!!!

And this turned out even funnier than I imagined - we plopped Carma on the swing with Leila and one of them was thrilled and one of them was not a fan. 

More fun at Grandma's park.

We stuck Grandma Pam with all six kids one night(let's be honest: she was thrilled) and Chuck and I challenged Quinn and Eden to some tennis. 

To quote my instagram... since this was eight months ago and I have apparently a terrible memory... : 'We were pretty evenly matched, but Quinn and Eden sealed their win in the third tiebreaker set. Highlights were everyone getting a chance to whiff it, Eden and Chuck avoiding injury despite their frequent face-offs at the net, Eden yelling 'hi-ya' with every good shot, and apparently my facial expressions every time Quinn's pretty decent ball placement caught me off guard.' 

We gathered the whole gang one night and headed to a movie with Grandpa. Carma wasn't a fan of being quiet, staying in her seat, or not dancing up and down the aisles, so she and I hung out in the theater foyer - everyone else enjoyed Kung Fu Panda 3 immensely though! And everyone enjoyed fruit snacks and playing in the front yard well into dusk. I MISS SUMMER.

And some more Carma/Leila hilarity - Carma was soooo slooooow on the slide so Leila opted to help speed her up a bit ;).

Some random pictures of snuggling with Grandma and Isaac - including a selfie courtesy of Clyde :).

 Jack and Isaac were pretty cute - I feel like these blurry pictures are a pretty accurate representation of their shenanigans as they created a spaceship and also took fake naps haha.

 SO fun to see Quinn and Eden and their family (also I feel like this is the trip that they announced their pregnancy?) and we're so grateful that they came to town! One of these days Quinn will finally (never) convince us to move to Utah, but until then we love road trips to see each other!