Chronicles of the Willi

August Trip #7: Around the House/Family

This is going to be the last August Trip post in the series. Whew! What a ride. (you guys are probably relieved!) Can you believe that we took almost 400 pictures during that two week period? This has to be some sort of feat, sorting through all those and organizing them into condensed/blog form all in one week!

Okay, enough about my amazing family journaling skills, let’s turn our attention to this last post.

So in the past 5 or 6 posts you’ve seen us constantly going places, having people over, and running around in general. But some of the most fun, sweetest times we spent was at “home” with Sharon and family. We had bike rides, movie nights (LOTS of those), games, photoshoots, and just pure sweet fellowship. Angie, Nikki, Alyssa and I gathered in the kitchen every afternoon preparing meals for our families, or making desserts. (Alyssa, you’re a great watermelon seed-getter-outer!) John kept us cracking up with his infamous puns and jokes – it was splendid!

So Sharon and John, thank you for your hospitality, a lovely time and visit. We love you guys!

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But wait! I’m not done yet. As a sort of last minute decision, we decided to stop by and stay overnight at my brother Brian’s house before returning home. It’s been a year since we’ve seen each other, so we wanted to make sure to squeeze a short visit in, even though it was out of the way.

I didn’t get to challenge Brian to our favorite card game of Spit, but we did have many rousing games of home basketball! (with the kiddie basketball hoop). Nate and Brian did some ninja moves and beat me soundly. We had dinner together, played more games, ate ice cream and watched a movie. It was short, but sweet.

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Though we made several stops on the way down, we still made good time on the return journey, and arrived home at Providence Glen at a reasonable time. The next morning we were up and at ‘em again – it was a busy and exciting week for us! But more news on that later.