For lots of our friends, seeing their grand kids isn’t a big deal.  Most of them live in the same town, and may even help out by babysitting them frequently.  Well that just isn’t the case for us, and not by our design either.  We’d love to see them way more often than we do, but it is a long way to California and Ohio so we take what we can get.

Marlene absolutely adores these kids and is soaking up all the “grandma time” she can get!  We’ve both been able to babysit them while their moms went off to a movie (The Help) together for some “sister time”, if you ask us that is a perfect win/win for everyone!

Me and Mateo just hanging out as the only two males in the household until Aaron and Scott get here a little later this afternoon.

So, today the other boys get here and a dear family friend is coming in with Aaron from Atlanta.  Jen is very much a part of our family and it will be great to have her here for the weekend too.  More pictures to come as the weekend progresses.  We boys have a night time photography field trip planned.  We are hoping for some very cool images from that.  Stay tuned…