For the past 2 months Matt and I have been wanting to go out to champaign, IL to meet our new nieces Kebe and Shena, and we got the opportunity to do that last week. Matt also needed to go out to Cissna, IL for work, and I wanted to visit my older sister Ash in Champaign while her hubby Mark was out of town on a veterinarian rotation for school. How perfect that it worked out that we could do all 3 in one week!
I must say that I got the better end of the deal then Matt. He got to go to work everyday while I spent my days hanging out with my sister Ash and sister-in-law Kim and my wonderful, beautiful neices and nephews. One morning we all met up at a play place in a church in town. Here are some pictures of our morning together.
Loved getting to meet and spend time with my little nieces Kebe and Shena from Ethiopia, and what a great mommy they have!
Jaci is such a big girl. I am so used to her being the baby of the Kim and Neal's family, but she is transitioning to her role as a big sister quite well. She was so helpful and loved taking care of Reuben at the playground.
Mommy Ash taking Reuben down the slide. Zoom zoom.....
The Princess
(Kim, you can tell her it says this hehe!)
Kebe was a little timid of this frog thing, but everything was ok with mommy there.
Time to get dizzy!
Reuben made sure that Kebe was doing ok on the ride.....how sweet!
Lego Mania! Reuben looks a little dazed at shock of huge legos.
Grabbing some lunch after all the playing that went on.
Someone is worn out! Time to go home for a nap.
What a surprise for Reuben! Nana was there to put him to bed. =)
More play time......
Reuben enjoyed having another guy around in the evenings after spending all day with us gals. Seems like he is getting a kick out of Uncle Matt about something.
What a helper. He seriously drove this thing around the living room and vacuumed. Wow, I hope my children are like this!!!!
Matt and I spend a few evenings over at Kim and Neal's house. Of course we had tons of fun. Kim had these sugar scrubs that we used to made our hands smooth and silky!!!!!!! We just couldn't stop touching our hands all night....haha!
Thankful that we get many opportunities to spend time with family! We are so blessed!
what a joy that week was:) you and matt are so dear to our hearts! we love you guys and thanks for being patient and understanding in figuring out the boundaries with your new nieces. you guys rocked it out and were so considerate of us! it felt very safe for us :):)
ReplyDeleteI love that you can mesh your families like that. :)
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