Friday, April 02, 2010

The Marks' Visit


My sister, Debbie, and her fam came for a visit from Wisconsin this past week. We loved having them around, enjoying every minute of it. People have been telling Debbie and I how much we look alike lately. (Our sunglasses are even similar!)
All the cousins: Jocelyn, Abby, Keira, and Andrew (pictured with their enormous hole.)
Keira's cute little swimsuit from the Marks.

Andrew as happy as can be.

All of the cousins had a great time together.
Another pic of my little one in her ruffles.
Abby completely buried. At one point, she started yelling, "Ouch! Ouch!" but she couldn't move. Finally she said, "What is happening to my feet?!" We looked and found Keira shoveling away in a hill that happened to be her cousin's feet... poor Abby.
For a large part of the visit, Abby was reading to Andrew and Keira. If I had to guess, she probably read about 40 books to them!
We miss the Marks already. We had so much fun going to get ice cream, having special Aunt-niece time, bbq-ing. My nieces even acted out a skit for my pre-schoolers in Sunday school! They are wonderful actresses!
Random note: Andrew hatched a dinosaur egg over the weekend. He was SO excited to see his dinosaur be born. Until the Marks came the following day, Andrew pretty much sat in front of his egg, waiting for it to hatch.

2 comments:

judy s said...

how fun to be with family! wow, 40 books? what a great niece you have. =)btw, i'm curious about that dinosaur egg. is that a toy?

Cheri said...

Judy- Hi! Yeah, the dinosaur was a toy that when put in water, the egg cracks and a dino grows out of the egg. It was pretty cool. Now he plays with it in the tub. :)