Sunday, August 31, 2008

Visitors from the East.

Cousins!!

We were delighted to have two of Mom's siblings and their families come for 4 days in mid August!! Both of them still live on Long Island, where Mom grew up. Uncle Drew and his family drove out and arrived in Kansas City on Monday around noon. Aunt Dorie's family flew into the KC airport at 12:30. Our three families, plus the Shepards, spent the afternoon and evening in Kansas City as we waited for Noah's flight that night!
Having Lunch in KC.

Heather and Justice.

Watching.....

Jason ride an automatic bull!!

And after a little coaxing, Seth took a turn too!

In the shooting range at Cabelas!

In front of some of the trophies on display in Cabelas.

Gotaa love the hats!!

Or maybe we like these better!

It's bright in here!!

Enjoying time together!

Finally, it was time to head back to the airport to meet Noah's plane!! His flight was scheduled to come in at 10:30pm and was just a few minutes early. As they started to unboard, we waited, and waited and waited!! He was sitting in the last seat in the plane, and was the very last passenger to get off the plane!!
Anxiously waiting for him to get off the plane!!
Silas!

And he's here!!!

The next several hours were full of smiles and laughter as we gathered his luggage, loaded up in the bus and headed for home!! We listened to Noah describe his past 3 days and tell us highlights from his trip. We are so thankful to have him home again!!

With so many people in the bus (our family, plus the cousins), we had some hysterical games going!!
Gotta love the expressions!

The Shepards were at the airport to meet Noah, and we were thrilled when they came on up to the house to spend Tuesday with us!!
Andrew had brought a few of his firearms and several roudns of ammo, so we enjoyed some target practice!!
Uncle Drew.

Jason.

Esther.

Victoria.

Catie!
Heather.

Jason, Victoria, Esther and Chad.

Andrew had the best aim of us all! :)

Chad and Tabitha.

Moses.

Me.

Moses.

Esther, Victoria, Heather and Catie.

Our tv recently quit working, so we hauled it out to shoot at.

Unloading the tv.

The two that got to shoot the TV.

The TV meets it fate.

The fast way to cool off!! :)

Noah slept almost all of Tuesday, but once he was up, he dived into his suitcases to show us the treasures he had brought home!
Silas loves his chinese costume!

Phoebe got a outfit too, with hand-made shoes and a parasol!

Noah is thrilled to back with his horses!

Cowgirl Catie.

Jason.

Uncle Drew.

Man-made tower. :)

A noisy game of spoons!
Skeet-shooting.
Jason.

Dad.

Uncle Drew taking a turn throwing!

Heather.

Victoria, Esther, Jason and me.

Hiding out in the walk-in cooler!! :)
(They got over heated while outside, so went in there for a quick cool-down!!)

The 'Triplet Cousins'! The three of them were born within 3 months of each other!!

The Homan family!

Getting ready to say good-bye early Friday morning!

Aunt Dorie, Mom and Uncle Drew with Grandma.
We had a fantastic week with them; playing volleyball, taking walks, playing sequence (Esther and Jason were nearly undefeatable!!), and catching up on everything that has happened since we saw them last!! (We missed Uncle Billy; he couldn't come due to work schedules, but we thought of him lots!!)
The Cousins!!!

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, yay, I'm the first to comment!! Thank you so much Elizabeth, for posting ALL these pictures! I love, love LOVE them!! It looks like you all had a great time with your family!

My favorite pictures would probably be the ones of Elizabeth :), Silas, the man-made tower, and all the cousins.

Shooting the tv . . . . well, that's a creative way to get rid of it!

Missin' you terribly!
Ali

The Ansons said...

Ohhh, seeing all these pictures makes me sad all over again that we could not make it for the visit. I love my family!!

Anonymous said...

Oh, great post, Elizabeth! I loved the last picture! Keep postin'!
Lord bless,
Kourtney

Anonymous said...

WOW......this post is like full of WAYYY GOOD pictures! As I was scrolling through I kept thinking of all these WAYYY FUNNY comments I was going to make on this WAYYY GOOD post, but after I FINALLY Got through the maze of WAYYY GOOD pictures I was like.... "oh... man what was I going to comment anyways!"=) I was going to say that my heart sunk when I saw the tv being shot all up! I have good memories on that thing!=) Like....."now dip"!=) *wink* Yeah... it was WAYYY SAD to see that thing go! I loved the man made tower..... I see who really invented that thing!=) *wink* I really loved all the people, and some triggered a laugh..... So.... thanks for the absolutly fabulous post Elizabeth! I Loved it! And tell Moses he looked pretty wicked in those gun pictures!=) But I'm sure that you had the best aim!=) Thanks again this post was So.... good to see! Especially since I'm missing you all WAYYY BAD! I love how you post Elizabeth! LOTS OF PICTURES, not to many pictures, but not to few, and humor that only a certain select can understand!=) *wink* Well I better be going, before I do the first ever of a comment to long to publish!=) Missing you all WAYYY BAD!

Love-----Your Adopted Sis'

Anonymous said...

P.S. That last part was supposed to say--LOTS OF PICTURES, not to many words, but not to few! Yeah makes WAYYY more sense that way doesn't it?!=)

And that other part was supposed to say---- I really loved all the pictures (not people, but I love them too!=) and some triggered a laugh.----Sorry this computer was being a little silly, so it was hard to fix punctuation etc... without erasing words! But those mess ups were just because I didn't read over my WAYYY long comment!=)

Anonymous said...

That looks like so much fun!! Silas is ADORABLE in his Chinese outfit. ;)

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed all these pictures! I hope y'all have had a great time in Texas.
We were able to visit Scott and Lydia on our trek back across Kansas! Philip is cute in pictures, but he is soooo much more cuter in person! :) :)

Anonymous said...

Hey There Sis,

The one other correction you forgot was too, instead of to,-Like I am going to the store too.
Lest we forget the other two people....memories of a dinner table the first time I came to the Ulmer's. Hope you all are having a wayyy good time!!!!!!!!-No winks, just!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sir Wayyyyyy

Anonymous said...

Could you please speak in English!*wink* I'm afraid I don't understand your WAYYY coded message Mr. WAYYY. I'm rather slow though! So perhaps that's the problem. And I just read over my WAYYY long comment, and could not find the to that was supposed to be too that you were talking about! Anyways loved your WAYYY good comment anyways!=)

Thourougly Confused=)
Miss WAYYY

Anonymous said...

Oh dear sis, it's the "not too many pictures"........you two are so funny, you just crack me up!! :)
Me, of course!!

Anonymous said...

Hey There Sis' Of the TWO!*wink*wink*!!!! Thank-you much for your most wonderful comment! We crack ourselves up toooooooooooooo sometimes!=) *wink* Sorry for the TERRIBLE Grammer! Can't wait to see you Sun! Was jumping for joy when I found out whole second fam was coming.

In Code,
Miss WAYYY

Anonymous said...

It's good to be us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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