Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Family Time

The past several days have been a whirlwind due to family coming to visit.   My mom, stepdad, brother, opa and oma all came to visit.  It was my opa and oma's first time visiting our home in Nevada and meeting Abraham and Winston.  My opa and oma live in the Netherlands so we do not get to see them very frequently.  Unfortunately with the timing on both sides, Eric was away on business and did not get to visit with them.  The up side is that entertaining four adults and taking care of two little toddlers kept me very busy and my mind off missing my hubby (as much).

Since the boys have been born we seem to get a lot more visits from family.  Hmmm, I wonder why that is?  It's like the motivation to visit now is greater than it was before.  I never blogged about all those visits but I want to stay more on top of it from here on out.  It is fun to see how much the boys change from their pictures visit to visit. We are blessed to be so loved that people make the long drive to visit us.   

 The boys got Holstein print klompen from groot opa and groot opa.

Winston likes his klompen and his giant bunny.

Abraham loved listening to all the conversation in Dutch. 
 He likes hanging with the guys and was quite content sitting with opa Kurt.

 On Sunday we went to up to Lake Tahoe and the boys did so 
well with getting in and out of the car so frequently.

 The boys with opa and mimi.

 Plus Uncle Jeremy, groet opa and groet oma.

Me and my little peanuts at one of my favorite places--Emerald Bay.

 Me and my mama in Virginia City

We all spent some time in Virginia City, the famous silver mining town 
which was a booming area in the 1860's. 

The famous hundred mile view from Virginia City. 

It was fun sight seeing with family and getting to spend time together.  It definitely meant a lot that my family drove up to see me and the boys since traveling to So Cal at this stage is still difficult. The weather turned out to be great considering that spring can mean bad wind storms and snow.  It allowed us to enjoy the beauty of the surrounding areas.  I spent time preparing for my family's visit and it was over so quickly.  The house was so quiet again this morning. The boys are such little troopers when their schedule gets thrown to the wind but it is always nice to get back into a routine as well. 

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