Pierson's Meet & Greet

On Friday early afternoon we hit the road and headed to Tennessee to visit the Jensens. We hadn't seen them since Pierson was born and Miss P hadn't been properly shown off to the rest of the family so off we went for the weekend! Ella-Ann and Rane were beyond excited to see their cousins. In fact, this was the very first time Rane had not taken a nap on a trip! Such fun for Spencer and I! Actually, he is great in the car now and no trouble at all, even with a missed nap! It's just loud the entire 4 hours! We put Pierson in the third row of the van so that I could feed her a bottle and we wouldn't have to stop.

We arrived at Gary and Gayla's house, who now live near Zach and Mandy (yeay!!!), around 4 that afternoon and the kids just took off to play. They all play so well together and now that Ethan and Rane are a little older they enjoy playing together too. Spencer, Rane, Pierson and I spent the night there while Ella-Ann spent the night with Carter and Seth in their bunk beds. It was a quiet night without all the kids around!

On Saturday Spencer's Uncle Wayne, Aunt Connie, Uncle Mike and his Nanny drove up from Central Kentucky to see everyone and meet Pierson. It was great to have everyone there because we really do not see them as much as we would like. Pierson did great with all the passing around and was a sweet little thing for everyone. She even broke out some smiles to show off!

Seth turned 4 this month and Carter turned 6 today (Happy Birthday Carter!!!!!) so Mandy brought over their Wii since they received 2 new games this weekend. The kids enjoyed playing them, well mainly Seth and Carter did and Ella-Ann would play for a minute and find something else to do! Even though she is a girl she really has a good time playing with all the boys, but we are starting to see the dividing line at times, mainly with the games and playing ball outside. She is really not into sports whatsoever, but then again she is my child! I mean her arms don't even move away from her side when a ball is thrown directly at her! Rane, on the other hand, is right in the middle of it all! He and Ethan got into all kinds of mischief at their house!

The weekend past by so fast and Ella-Ann did not want to go home. She wanted to stay for Carter's party, play with the boys, stay with Nana and Papa forever, etc. It will be SO wonderful when we move this year and we just hop in the car and head to our house down the road and not 4 hours down I24 and I75! There will be no more goodbye tears!

While the big kids were jumping on Gary and Gayla's brand new king size bed in the other room, Rane and Ethan took all the bath toys and threw them in the tub!

Uncle Craig and Kasey bought a sword for Rane this weekend and he carried it around everywhere. I think Papa was a little afraid!

Such a funny picture!

Rane loved playing with Craig and Spencer's old Matchbox car play set.

Nanny holding Pierson for the first time. I dressed her for the occasion...in her little tutu, of course!

All of them with their glazed-over game face on!

Saturday was a beautiful day so we spent the afternoon outside. I know Spencer enjoyed playing ball with the boys!

Carter got a new bike for his birthday but Craig decided to test it out and Ella-Ann was right behind him on the Spiderman scooter!

Rane just wanted to be pushed around on the scooter because he couldn't figure out how to push himself!