My Family

I really enjoyed being with my family in January (and have so many pictures to show for it).  I love all of them so much and just loved every minute of my time with them.  It gets even more fun as our family expands, which seems to be happening rather quickly lately.  It's wonderful.  I'm so thankful to have all of these people in my life...

 My brother & sister, David & Jen

Jen & David with Erin

David & Mary

My nephew, Isaiah

We celebrated Isaiah's first birthday while we were there

Mary & Isaiah

My cousin Andrea with Heather & Elaina

My cousin, Megan

Uncle Trevor with the girls

My cousins, Megan & Michael

Trevor & my Dad

Nana & Jared, wearing each others hats

Heather & Elaina

David & Erin

Nana and Isaiah

 Nana

My nephew, Gavin

Jen reading to Isaac

Me & Isaiah

My Mom & Isaiah

My Nana with Isaac

 

Isaac was infatuated with David's scruff

 Gavin, getting ready to go outside in the bitter cold!

Nana & Papa

Aunt Jen and Isaac

Isaac and Grandpa Derry

 

Me with Isaac and Isaiah

Grandpa & his little buddy

 Swimming at the hotel pool!  Jared, Mary, Isaiah, Elaina, David, Erin

 David and Elaina coming down the slide

My Grandpa

Deanna and Isaac

My sister Heather & her (then) fiance, Trevor

 Elaina is having a deep conversation with Uncle Dave

 My cousin Andrea with Isaac

 Uncle Kavin...and the rest of us

 Aunt Joan and Heather having some exciting conversation

 My cousin Michael and Isaac

 Aunt Heather and Isaac

 Me and the bride-to-be

 Me, my Mom & sisters

 Mike was finally able to join us at the end of the week!

 Elaina and Aunt Heather

Trying to sleep

My parents arrived the day after we did.  Actually they pulled up to my Nana's house while the girls were outside in the snow.  As you can imagine, after flying for 24 hours from Saudi Arabia, they were very tired.  Unfortunately for them, they had a house full of 18 people (including 5 grandkids) waiting to greet them, so they wouldn't be resting anytime soon.

Except for my Dad.  Not sure how, but somehow he managed to fall asleep amid this chaos:

And the kids were not ok with it.  They covered him with legos:

Then Erin was done with being polite, and took matters into her own hands, talking in his ear:

getting in his face:

and finally just opening his eyes herself:

What better way to wake up than to find yourself covered in toys and kids crawling all over you!