Cousins' Weekend

My brother, Clayton, and his family came for the weekend.  They have been in Tallahassee for the last few months.  My brother agreed to work in Mobile, AL wrapping up a lot of the insurance claims for Staten Island.  His wife, Katie, decided to spend the time with her family.  She enrolled the kids in school there.  We were lucky enough to be a pit stop on their way back home to Montana.

They came in late on Friday night.  We planned to go swimming on Saturday, but the pools don't open until 10 am, so I took all the kids to Lexi's school.  They have a great map of the US and I thought it would be interesting to take a picture of the kids on their birth state.  You can see that Florida has been popular.  Zak, Ammon, Miriam and Lexi were all born there.  Jordan was born in Texas.  Kaylie was born in Colorado.  Rachel was born in Montana.  If my other two brothers were here, we'd have 2 more in Colorado (Alma's kids) and 2 more in Montana (Chris' twins).  Jordan is a lone wolf in Texas.

We had a great weekend.  We went swimming twice on Saturday - once at the community pool and once at a church pool party.  Fortunately, Clayton called my dad's wife (widow) and told her they were going to be in town.  She drove from San Antonio to see us.  She seems to be doing well.  Even though we only live about 3 hours apart, I haven't seen her for about 5 years.  She went to the pool with us and chatted for a while and then went to see some other friends in Houston.

On Sunday, we went to church and then out to see the model homes in a new community near us.  It is called Cross Creek Ranch. I like to take visitors out to see the new homes.  It is neat plus they just might decide they want to move here.  Texas is great.  The economy is strong and the cost of living is low.  Who wouldn't love it?  ....no I am not paid to convince people.

The cousins left on Monday morning after we walked Lexi to school.  My kids will definitely miss them. The girls all slept in Lexi's room and the boys were in Jordan's room. It was one big sleepover.

Miriam, Lexi, Kaylie, Rachel, Zak, Jordan, & Ammon

Clayton & I with Angie (my dad's widow)