Impromptu Family Meeting

Dear Henry,

A couple of weekends ago we made a trip over to Columbus to visit with your maternal Grandma P's side, the Goins family. It was put together quickly but was a lot of fun.

We weren't the only ones to bring new additions to the family. Mommy's cousin Tommy brought his very personable and cute fiance and her two pretty daughters. Many people had yet to meet you, for instance your Great Aunt Judy hadn't gotten to hold you yet! Mommy's Aunt Judy babysat her a lot as a little girl. She was a lot of fun. She would give one of her signature pushes in the swing and say, "to the moon with you!" Aunt Judy would sit outside in a lawn chair and paint all of the girls finger and toe nails and tell us about her boyfriends. She was really happy to finally give you a squeezin'! Cousin Tony, Karie, Ella and TJ were excited to finally take a look at you. Ella insisted on holdin' on to you for a while. It was a good time.



Daddy, Crappaw and I introduced everyone to Molkky. It was a great group to play with and Great Aunt Clare-Cee was really out to win. We had a lot of laughs! You seemed to enjoy all of the attention but also didn't mind getting to sit in the bouncy seat Grandma P and Crappaw bought you.

Daddy and Mommy had an olde fashioned red hot dog and homemade potato salad. Mommy, Daddy and you had to be back in town for Auntie Kristin's roller derby bout with Grandpa Tim and Grandma LaJean so we were the first to leave. We were having a really great time and it was hard to leave all of the fun but then it began to POUR buckets of rain. The curtains of rain made it a little easier to go because there were a lot of us to cram into the house if we needed to. After enjoying the outdoors being indoors would have stunk.

We hope to do this again this summer. It can be difficult because everyone has such busy lives. Every time we get together though it feels as if no time has passed.

I can't wait for you to get a little older to play with the boys more. You'll be a pack with JD, Kolsen, Nash, Tyler, Johnny, Damon, and Devon, but I somehow see sassy Ella and Madelyn runnin' things. Mama hasn't decided if she would let you participate in bb gun fights like she did as a kid though. I can't believe all of our parents let us do that!
You'll still get to have fun though, no worries.

Love, Mama