Family madness

It's been a crazy couple of days. Monika and Kevin were suppose to fly in Saturday night, but missed their flight by three minutes. They had to stay the night in the Denver airport, and catch a flight the next morning. Martin and I got to the airport about 9:00 and met Whitney when she got there about 9:30. Her and Kevin met in Africa while on their missions during the last 6 weeks that Kevin was there, and have been talking for the last 7 months and decided it was time to finally see each other again. She is an awesome girl. SOO much fun, we get along already. Martin and I hope things work out and Kevin and Whitney can kind of repeat what we've already done. It's pretty funny, Monika and her two sisters were from Germany and married men from England/Scottland, and if things work out, the two brothers will have married girls from America. But the line stops there, I don't want my kids to marry someone from, and move to a different country. It was SO good to finally see Monika and Kevin again. It's been almost 3 years.

This is the only picture I got from the airport.

Then we came back to our apartment and introduced them to Abbi. She's so funny around new people she gets so excited. We had dinner at my mom's house, then went to show Monika and Kevin, Seth's basement and how it's changed, then we stopped by the Eisenbarth's where they were having a family party. (Kevin got to know the Eisenbarth's when he and Martin stayed there when Martin and I were dating.) It was good to see them again, and I got to meet the newest family member baby Cannon. So adorable, and little Kylee just melted my heart. I love that girl, and I miss that family so much, I definately need to stop by more often. We then went back home and let the weary travelers rest and we watched a movie. Sleeping arrangements were pretty crazy. I feel like our apartment is so cramped and tiny for just us, let alone three extra bodies. We squished two twin blowup mattresses in the spare bedroom for Monika and Kevin, and poor Whitney slept on the couch.

The next morning we got up and went to the new Narnia: Prince Caspian movie. It was very good and I enjoyed it. Then because it was Memorial Day we had our annual barbeque at Gayla's house. The food was very yummy, and the weather cleared up some so it wasn't too terrible. After we ate Kevin and Whitney took all the kids and played soccer across the street, while Mom, Jason, Gayla, Seth and I went up to the cemetary to my Dad's grave. We laughed a lot. I like that after so long we can laugh and have a good time and not be so serious and sad all the time. I think that's the way my Dad would want it. I love my family so much and how very close we are.

When we got back we sat around and talked for a while, and I handed of my camera to Sammi to take pictures of everyone. She is now my official picture taker, and I'm considering having a kid just so I can have one of my own. She got pictures of nearly everyone. All except Makayla, Allie and Nathan who were off playing. First Doug.

Mom, Gayla and I.

Sara

Harli who was Gayla's picture taker.

Crazy Seth. He's growing his beard because of the Hockey playoffs. It's an awesome year this year. The Redwings and the Penguins are playing which are Seth's two favorite teams. It's a win win situation. I hope it goes to game 7. That would be awesome!

Crazy Jason

Brock and Brandon
Then we decided we needed a group picture of Monika and her boys and their significant others. We sat there forever and had to take a ton of pictures. With both my camera and Gayla's camera. It took forever, but we got some good ones.

Monika and her boys

Whitney and I

The girls
Whitney was REALLY done taking pictures. She's so funny. I was actually very impressed with Whitney because she met so many different people and didn't complain and held herself well and fit right in with my crazy family.