Sunday, June 3, 2012

Stewart, Shannon, and Brooke!

It has been 2 years and 6 months since I’ve seen my brother! That is WAY TOO long! Stewart, Shannon, and Brooke came all the way from Nebraska to visit us over the Memorial weekend holiday! It was SOOOOO good to see them! I was so happy to be with my big brother again! We are super close and we always pick up right where we have left off without skipping a beat! We took over 500 pictures while they were here. So…… I’m trying my hardest to not make this post a novel; however, this is, to date the LONGEST post I have EVER blogged before!

♥♥♥♥♥♥FIRST NIGHT♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Little Brooke grew so tall! She is so beautiful and sweet! What a beautiful little lady she is turning into! And here is Shannon, Brooke, and Me!

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♥♥♥♥♥♥SUNDAY♥♥♥♥♥♥

Shannon, Brooke, Stewart

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Love him!

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Me teasing Brooke!  And Lily with her Uncle! She took to him fast! ♥

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Sunday Walk

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This picture is blurry, but I had to post this! Stewart ALWAYS has whipped me with a hand towel! ALWAYS! ha ha! This time I got him back! I think for the first time EVER! I was pretty proud! Check out his pain face! Love it!

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♥♥♥♥♥♥Axis and Allies♥♥♥♥♥♥

My brother LOVES this game! He has ALL of them! Every time we get together him and Darren set up and play for hours into the night!

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♥♥♥♥♥♥BEACH / MEMORIAL DAY♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Buried Alive!

Brooke, Ethan, and Jacob wanted to be buried!

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♥♥♥♥♥♥Bowling♥♥♥♥♥♥

Wednesday it rained and rained and rained some more! We went bowling on base! Super fun!

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♥♥♥♥♥♥Ocean Front♥♥♥♥♥♥

We went to the beach again on Thursday! The weather was beautiful!

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Then we walked along the board walk. Brooke wanted to find a T-shirt from VA Beach. We went in a few shops and messed around a bit. I accidentally left my purse on the floor in one of the stores! Darren took off running for it! Then I look and see him running back, flip-flops in hand and he’s running with my purse! At first I was relieved, then I quickly realized how bad it looked to have him running down the board walk without shoes on and a purse in his hands! ha ha! I’m just glad he found it!

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Frozen Custard! Yes please! We skipped lunch and went straight for the good stuff!

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Quiet Please!

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♥♥♥♥♥♥Mount Trashmore♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Try running up Mt. Trashmore holding a 36 lb 3 year old! Not easy!

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♥♥♥♥♥♥Baseball♥♥♥♥♥♥

We were able to take them to see one of Ethan’s last games of the season! They were Ethan’s biggest fans! 

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A HUGE Thank you to Shannon! Every time I was cooking or pre-occupied, she would grab Jacob and read stories, sing songs, play trucks, board games! Anything to keep him busy and out of trouble! She was wonderful! Thank you!

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♥♥♥♥♥♥Family Fun♥♥♥♥♥♥

Lemon, Lemon, Lime, Lime (fun game!)

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Uncle Stewart is a Playground!

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He had to be exhausted after that! But the kids LOVED every second of it!

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We had such a wonderful time with them here! Soooo good seeing them! We have to not go so long between visits again! ♥

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4 comments:

Kate said...

That post wasn't THAT long! They should ALL be like that! Lol!
It looks like you guys had a BLAST! Isn't family great? Such fun pictures!

Sue Howe said...

Thank you for all the fun pictures. What a great time you all had together. It was such a good memory building experience for you all and especially the grandchildren to get acquainted. Love you all so much. Thank you for all the love I feel from these special pictures.

Hansen Adventures said...

You look SO beautiful! Really. And I am so happy you look so happy! I totally wish we still lived in VA to do all those fun things, I miss the beach and Mt. Trashmore!!! SO fun you got to see your brother and his family! looks soo fun! Love ya!

Shan said...

It was so wonderful to spend time with you guys! We miss you all! XXOO Thanks for this great post with so many awesome pictures of everyone. Big hugs to everyone there!!