Next, we visited friends and family in MO.
In Farmington, we visited some friends. Aurelia discovered that a 6 year-old little girl is about the coolest person in the whole world. (And I got to slip off and see New Moon with Angie – hooray!) Miss T has the best toys and wants to have sleepovers! Actually, Aurelia ended up sleeping with us because she just couldn’t get calmed down on the floor. We were really looking forward to having the bed to ourselves for one night of the trip – maybe next time…
Here is our curly-top in sleepover mode with the Marvelous Miss T! They were so cute together, and Miss T ended up bringing Aurie a special blanket and teddy to tuck her in with her in the next room. So sweet!
Next stop was the farm. This is Aurie’s great-grandparents’ home in northern MO — way up at the tippy-top. Marcus and I had not made it up here for my mom’s family gathering since we announced we were engaged. You do the math. It was so nice to see my cousins, again, and their kids who have grown enormously or even been born during that amount of time. One of my cousins once-removed (?) was really pleased to see another little girl in the family with awesome curls like hers. And, here is a family picture – a tradition to take a picture of each of the families each year. It is really cool to look back through them over the past 30 years to see how much we all have grown and our families expanded by marriage and kiddos.
Two curly-headed cousins (once-removed, or something like that…)
This is my mom with her two sisters and parents – an example of the tradition of “cluster photos” that we always take every year. “Oh, get one of so-and-so together, now this group…” You get the idea…
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