It's Always Fun When Family Comes!! - Lorelei's Blessing

It's especially fun when our house is the meeting place for people coming from multiple places who haven't seen each other for a while....or at all!!  With Emily and her family already here at our home, we welcomed Stephanie and Karsten in late May for a few weeks and then Janelle and her family were able to come down for a few days in early June.  This was the first time that either Steph or Janelle had seen baby Lorelei and also allowed all these family members to be here for Evan's play and also for Lorelei's blessing.  Very exciting!!  It also made for some very fun cousin time.  Here are some of the pictures taken during our visit.

A lovely concert courtesy of Jimmie and Karsten

Enjoying a nice drink

Good morning, Baby Lorelei!!

Some delicious pancakes!!

James playing with Lorelei.  He was just fascinated with his little cousin!!

Jimmie's new water table was a big hit with everyone

Lots of fun!!

Pretty good little sharers

A trip to Johnson's Farm was a big hit with all the kids

...and Grandpa Foulk, too!!

James climbed all the way up by himself....very proud, too.

A little go-cart racing, anyone?  Go, Alan, go!!

Nate and....

....Evan got in on the fun, too.

Wow, James, look what you started!!

What can I say....... he's wrapped pretty tight around her little finger.  :)

The fearsome threesome (Karsten, Lucy, and Jimmie) on the swings out back

And another yummy breakfast...looks like Swedish (also known as sweetish) Pancakes this time

It's always a tradition to have Swedish Pancakes at Grandma's house

Delicious!!

Even with his little shiner that he got falling on the stairs, 

Jimmie loves his yummy Swedish pancakes!

We also took some of the kids by work so that they could see the big oil trucks.

They were a hit!!

The other very special thing that we got to do while everyone was here was to have Lorelei's blessing.  Here's the gang outside the church on that day.  So glad you are a part of our family, Lorelei!!

Thanks so much for coming, everyone.  It was so fun having you here.