Aug. 27, 2008 - The Visit!!
And some other news, as well. :D
Firstly, we've got a contract on our house, so we'll be moving next month! :D We're hunting for a house, though, and so far we've found zip. :/ The one house we were hoping to get, well...let's just say the owners are making some really outlandish decisions, so it's not looking like we'll have a chance at it. Oh well....
On Thursday (the 21st), my Grandpa, Uncle George (Dad's brother), and my cousin Joanna (12 years old) arrived for a 5 1/2 day visit!!! :D It was the first time most of us had seen them in 12 years, so it was very exciting. :D Having them here was a lot of fun, too...both my Dad's brothers are a lot of fun, so it was great spending time with my uncle. Grandpa is very quiet, but funny and great to be around, and Joanna...well...let's just say it was just like having another sister around! :D I was slightly disappointed that her older sister Julia (20) couldn't come, but it was very exciting to find out that she's engaged to be married on the day after my birthday!! :D
Thursday afternoon we spent chatting for a bit...then Uncle George and Jeremy went out to play a little ball!
Joanna...I don't know what the girls did with their time, but Moriah, Sarah and Karah sure hogged her while we were at the house!
Thursday evening we went over to their hotel to swim in the pool, and later that night Dad got home and we all played card games until they left to go back to the hotel for the night. Joanna spent the night with us, though, and from what I hear, they stayed up to watch the synchronised swimming in the Olympics, which Sarah thought was on at 1am (it was really on at 3am, which is what I'd told them earlier *shakes head*). Needless to say, they were very tired in the morning! ;)
Friday morning we all ran around cleaning the house for the final showing (not that we knew it would be the last one, of course! ;)), then after a late breakfast we all ran some errands to give the buyer some time to look at the house. After we got back, all of us except for Mom and Micah headed out to a fun park about 30 minutes from here, to go go-karting and do arcade games (it's hard to come up with things to do around here! *frowns*). I didn't get any pictures of the go-karting (which was really fun!!) as I was driving one with Karah as my passenger, but I did manage some pictures in the arcade. :)
On the way there, the three amigas:
Almost forgot about this! Before we left, we took some family pictures! :D Grandpa is behind me to my left:
All of us....Uncle George is on the left beside Joanna...I think you know who everyone else is ;)
We loved the racing games!
Karah liked winning things! lol
While we were there is when Mom called to tell us that the guy who'd looked at the house that morning wanted to buy it...Uncle George and Dad worked with Mom over the phone to negotiate with the realtor...it was kind of funny watching the process! :D After that was taken care of, we left to go eat dinner before heading home. It took awhile to get to the restaurant as we took a little, um, "adventure" on our way there (*big grin* at Daddy), but we had enough time to eat and get home before the realtor came to have Mom and Dad sign papers. We kids played outside for most of the evening....
Saturday, was mostly spent in the pool. :D Altogether we were swimming probably close to 5 hours, and most of that time we had no sunscreen on (as we forgot it back in the room, and I stupidly decided not to go back for it since it was cloudy when we got down there)....soooo....we all looked like lobsters (and felt like wooden statues) as a result. :/ But we had fun! :D
Karah made friends with every little girl that came to the pool :D
Playing a pool game...Jackpot, I think
Even Micah got in for awhile! :D But....I accidentally got him too close to a splashing brother, so he got water in his mouth, and that was the end of his love for the pool. :/
He preferred his "throne" anyway ;)
We all tried doing cannonballs at the same time (several times)...I think this is after one attempt to get a picture
Here's a video I took :D The best one was when all of us (Jeremy, me, Moriah, Joanna, Sarah, Josiah, and Judah) did it together synchronised, but the video was too long to put on Photobucket. :(
http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m279/LadyHannahBeth/The%20Visit/?action=view¤t=THEvisit104.flv
Two dancing water monkeys :D
Joanna...
Moriah
Some of them played basketball while we were there...
Karah loved getting rides around the pool
Thought the splash was kinda neat :D
After we got out of the pool, we went to Cracker Barrel for supper (YUM!!!), then headed home to rest for the evening.
The sunset on the way home:
Uncle George bought this outfit for Karah at the restaurant...she loves it! :D
I have no pictures from Sunday (we basically lounged and watched the Olympics all day...we were exhausted!), except for this one that I got late in the evening. Sarah had spotted some small snakes earlier in the week, and we knew they were garter snakes, but I had no idea how small they were until I saw one for myself. :D
That's a baby snake...so cute! :D I did push it a little bit when trying to get a picture of it, though...it got fed up with me being in it's face, and tried to bite me. Good thing it's not poisonous. ;) I kind of wanted to hold it, though...it probably would've freaked out at being held by a giant! ;)
On Monday, we traveled to go look at several houses, and stayed in a hotel overnight.
Micah loves being able to face forward in his carseat now. :)
Once again, the three amigas in the backseat...with very interesting expressions.
Only Dad, Mom, Micah and I went to look at the houses, while the rest of everyone stayed at the hotel (swimming and probably watching tv). When we got back, we girls chased Micah around the room for awhile, then found something he liked to do(we all look so interested don't we?):
Mom decided to get a picture of grandpa and Jeremy from the loft :D
The boys were upstairs watching tv...
And weren't thrilled to realize Mom had taken their picture!
In the evening, Princess Diaries (the first one) was on tv, so we girls all watched it together. :D
Before they left our room, I played a game of Egyptian Rat Screw (really fun card game!!) with Daddy and Uncle George...very exciting, and painful too. :/ I'll never make the mistake of playing that game with my Dad and one of his brothers ever again! lol
In the morning, we had breakfast together, and then it was time to say goodbye. :( We had a great visit, but it was much too short.
Comments
Aug. 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by LadyMarian
Loved all the pictures!!! :D Your cousin looks like you. :) I can certainly see a resemblance. :)
Aug. 28, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Liveforeternity
Hi HannahBeth!
I just wanted to comment and tell you how much I always enjoy all of your pictures! :-) I also like how you have a caption for each one to explain it a little. :-)
By the way, I sent you an e-mail a couple of weeks ago... did you get it? I'm afraid that I might have the wrong e-mail address.
I hope that you are doing well!
Love,
Joy
Aug. 28, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Sarah
Oh! we all had soo much fun together at the pool! Especially when it was raining! Oh, I miss Joanna SOO much already and its only been two days since they left!
Sep. 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by hannah e.
It looks like you guys had a lot of fun! :D
Karah's new outfit is cute!
Thanks for sharing all those pictures! I like group pictures! :)
~hannah
Sep. 13, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by BelovedPeace
Sounds like fun!! :-) I enjoyed reading about it!! Thanks for posting about it, and all the pictures!! :OD (Me loves pictures! ;-))
Love ya!
