This Weekend

We spent this past weekend in California visiting my family.  Thanks to Dan’s 4-day weekend off of work (he seriously has the best schedule) and the fact that we’re only a 4 hour drive from my family (which still is long, but compared to the travel time and cost from Ohio, we’re loving it!), a long weekend visiting them is totally doable.  And we had a few good reasons to go – my brother, Jeff, was blessing this little guy:

                                                   Ryan Jeffrey Cole – born August 6, 2010

And actually, it was the first time we’ve seen their baby.  He is as cute and sweet as everyone was telling us.  It was also Halle’s 3rd birthday and they had a family party for her on Saturday, so it was so fun to be there for that as well.  We didn’t take very many pictures of the weekend, but here is one of a few of us after church on Sunday:

Those are Katherine’s parents and her little sister, Megan, in the picture with us.  They live in Fresno, only 3 hours away.  So, yeah, it was a great weekend, and we’re just so happy that we are closer to family so we can attend events like this.  And of course there was swimming, playing with cousins, eating at Fresh Choice, going to YogurtLand, and lots of shopping.  In fact, I did some serious damage at PBKids . . . I finally got the girls new bedding!  Now we just need to buy Leah a new mattress so we can get her into a big girl bed (she’s still in a toddler bed).  I’m so excited . . . . that will be our project for Thursday (Dan has it off).