Erika and Jonathan visit!

Also during the second to last week of school, Erika, Jonathan, Tessa, and Maren came to visit! We were so excited to meet Maren for the first time. She is a gorgeous baby :) Ben was quite obsessed with her. We got lots of good cousin time.

My kids were in school most of the week (having just come off missing most of the previous week and several days of the week before that). 

But on the weekend we got to introduce cousins to Water Country.

Rosie got to ride Colossal Curl for the first time (she was devastated last year that she wasn't yet tall enough).

And all the kids got to do some other slides like Malibu Pipeline and Aquazoid Amped.

And later that night some of the grown ups got to do Busch Gardens.

We grilled and played in the backyard.

And just in general got to spend some quality time getting to know our nieces/cousins...which was such a gift! 

Tessa came to church with us Sunday while her parents got reorganized for the next leg of their journey.

They still had quite a bit of journey to go after they left our house. Thank you Auntie Erika and Uncle Johnny for coming!