RED GROVER, RED GROVER!: Jason's family's visit!

Aren't we the luckiest, having all these FUN visitors over the past few weeks?! It has been the BEST month of our summer for sure!

Our next visitors were my oldest brother, Jason's family, here visiting from Oregon. They too came out to welcome my parents home, and we got to enjoy some fun time with them while they were visiting!

Our girls were really excited to see their cousins that they had Skpe'd so much with while daddy was working in Oregon! They, too, have a family of four boys and one sweet girl, Ella. Again, you could not meet nicer, kinder boys, especially when it comes to being so good to our family of girls! They always watch out for them and take good care of them! Our girls adore them!

And the added treat was having another GIRL cousin to join our brood of chicks! We couldn't resist the opportunity to have a little slumber party with Ella -- a definite house full of girls! They had so much fun -- playing dress up, and Barbies and jumping in the sprinklers. And wow, mom got to experience what it was like having FOUR heads of hair to fix! Yikes!

We spent a day bowling with all the cousins, and made an AWESOME slip-n-slide down my parents hill for all the kids to enjoy! That was HILARIOUS!! All I can say is that good thing we have such nice cousins who were willing to pull my girls down the slide with an exercise band! Soooo funny!

Just such a fun time having everyone here! I have missed my family so, so much this past year. I hate that we don't all live closer and get these times when everyone is together more often. I cherish our memories and all these fun visitors we have had! My kids are already bored to death being back with just boring old mom and dad! We're gonna miss everyone so much!