We've gone swimming, quite a few times. I am so super thankful to my Aunt and Uncle for allowing us to use their pool every summer. The kids love it and we do too. It's great exercise and family time. I have so many great memories in that pool with my own cousins from when we were kids growing up together. I'm so grateful that our kids can make their own memories there as well.
I'm also working on my tan and me and Jason are spending an hour treading water as part of our exercise routine. :)
We've played a lot of games this weekend too. We've played Clue, Trivial Pursuit - Family Edition, Battleship, Jenga, Connect Four, and Harry Potter Scene It. We need to get The Game of Life, Monopoly, Uno, Sorry and Guess Who! We play games a lot during the week too. All of us really enjoy family game nights.
We've watched movies out on the lawn and inside on the projector. Last night was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
We've eaten all of our meals together, which is a really big deal to me. Family's need to do this more often. It's a lost bonding time.
We rearranged the livingroom, which was a huge, long process. We moved the huge entertainment center and all of the furniture from one side of the livingroom to the other. We were EXHAUSTED after this.
Now it's more of an open space facing the kitchen so we can watch projector movies inside. It's starting to get hot and humid outside now and it takes so long to get dark out. It's just more comfortable and much more convenient inside. Not to mention, we were all getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. Georgia summers are horrible!!
We've also been cleaning the house, a lot, ridding it of lots and lots of junk. Being so compacted, we need every inch of space we can get.
We've laughed and just enjoyed each other's company, with very little stress (Kat is rarely at zero stress level). Anything that we can do with little to no stress is amazing. We have so many people, with such different personalities, that chaos reigns in this house more times than not. Any bonding that we can get in without all of the chaos is very much a good thing for us.
And Saturday we finally got to meet with the counselor that will be coming to the house for the kids (and us). She was awesome! I'm so glad she has a great sense of humor and that she's laid back, because she's definitely going to need it in order to be around all of us for any extended period of time. People with no sense of humor rarely like us because they just don't get us. Snobby people usually don't like us too much either.
If you don't know us already, let me just tell you...my family is loud and obnoxious. We joke a lot, but are not really funny (especially to outsiders). We use words that may make you question our intelligence too - in other words, our language can be quite "colorful" at times. For some of us, our jokes/comments may not always be too kid-friendly. We don't hide our bad habits either, so we may pick our noses, blow our nose at the table or fart and not even realize we're doing it, but someone not in our family will notice it immediately, lol.
If you find yourself in a room with two or more of my family members, you may feel a bit overwhelmed or like you need a set of earplugs. We are a crazy bunch. We're not too keen on being politically correct, we'll most likely offend you - quickly and often, and not because we're trying to, it just comes naturally. You'll either love us or hate us, there's really not much of an in between. :P
I love my family though, I wouldn't trade any a one of us for all of the money in the world.
This weekend was a much needed bonding experience. Being in this little house together, all 12 of us spending the weekend together, just having a great time, it made us really focus on each other and how much we love each one of our family members and how much we miss it when everyone is off doing other things or just not around. I truly hope they have made memories this weekend that will stay with them for a very long time, and if they start to forget...Mommy/Tía took lots of pictures!! :)
We did have a few setbacks, like Marian has had a bit of a hard time this weekend with pain and swelling in her wrist. She's also not been wanting to take her meds. Last night she was in pain and ended up needing her therapy bear. She's starting to lose mobility of the fingers on her right hand now as well, and it freaks us out (a lot). I can't wait to talk to Dr. Vega about this. They need to begin her physical therapy NOW!
And Aiden got bit on his big toe by something a few days ago, so we've been keeping an eye on that as well. It started our just swelling and he was complaining of it hurting, so I took him to the ER. They out him on an antibiotic and then it started swelling and turning a blackish red color under the skin. It got so bad last night that I had to lance it with a tiny little hole to allow the blood to come out. Now we are just watching it and I'll be making an appointment with his PCP tomorrow.
Kathryn and Brychan (My brother's son)
Marian and Lana (My brother's daughter)
Sabrina (my brother's daughter) and my brother, Jason
Clara and her Daddy, my Husband, Johnnie
Brychan, Sabrina, Clara and Marian at our Aunt and Uncle's pool
Jason and Lana, Lana's getting ready to launch from his shoulders
Marian, Brychan, Jason, Clara, Kathryn, Sabrina, and Lana taking a break from having fun in the pool to pose for a photo
Clara and Sabrina, two peas in a pod. They plan on moving to Tokyo together after college. Just the beginning of their plan to take over the world.
Clara and Sabrina and Lana and Marian playing water chicken. Brychan and Kathryn were watching and waiting patiently for their turn.
Clara and Sabrina and Brychan and Kathryn playing water chicken
Marian posing like the DIVA she is.
The whole bunch sitting around the livingroom on their electronics after a long, busy, exhausting day.
Marian, Brychan and Lana being silly together
Marian, the goofball
Lana, also a big ole goofball
Clara on her laptop, her very favorite thing to do, ever!
Lana and Marian in the car
Kathryn and Lana, silly lilly's
5 of the 7 the cousins, (Aiden and Kat stayed home for this walk), I lined them up oldest to youngest - in the wrong direction! LOL oops! So it goes youngest to oldest...(left to right) Brychan, Mary, Clara, Lana and Sabrina.
Again, (left to right) Brychan, Mary, Clara, Lana and Sabrina.
Mary putting her hands in the water. She loves the water.
Clara, Sabrina, Mary, Brychan, Lana and Jason down by the lake. It was such a gorgeous, cloudy/windy day.
Clara, Sabrina, Brychan, Lana, Jason (Mary's hidden by Sabrina)
Jason and his kids. <3
Jason and his kids again. <3
Mary and Clara playing in the water.
Jason was telling the kids about the lake, I think. Some idiot spray painted a "bad word" on the sign. :(
Jason and the kids were looking in the water and he was telling them a story about the lake.
All of them looking at the lake and enjoying the nice weather.
Headed back home now. Our walk break is over.
Mary and Lana are always silly. I love that about them!
Lana is so much taller than Mary, lol, she had to bend down.
The whole bunch standing on the bridge, looking at the water below, except for Brychan, lol
Playing Jenga! Kathryn is off to the side in the recliner, so she's not in the picture, but she screams the highest, most piercing scream every time the Jenga game falls. The first time she did it, I was standing right next to her chair, not expecting it and she scared the crap out of me! LOL
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