The Wonders of Living Close to Family

We are very excited about the fact that we live within a few hours drive of alot of family. My sister and brother and their families live about 2-2.5 hours east of us, and my grandparents, and uncle live 3.5 hours south, and I have other family scattered all around Cali. And John's parents and almost his entire family only live 12 hr drive north. Now many may say, WOW that is a long way to drive, well it is if you are use to only drive 1.5 hours to anything on one island. But the mainland is great in its mere fact that you can drive for hours and hours and not see the same stuff over and over again. Well we in our short month here have seen almost all of the families that live within a days drive of here. As well as some friends. And it has been nice. We stayed with my sister in her LOVELY (well that might be an understatement, but no words to describe her wonderful new home) new home. And my brother came over for dinner, we plan to see my grandparents in the next few weeks as well. But the majority of our time on the mainland was spend either in tiny hotel rooms, or up at John's parents house. It was wonderful to see all of John's family, well almost everyone. John has not seen his parents in 18 months, I saw them this summer, but it was a wonderful time. Some of the siblings all went to the Hands-On Science museum, which was fun. And a great place to get some energy out. Papa and Gramme took the kids to the Wildlife Safari, I think that is what is was call, it was a drive thru zoo basically, while John and I had a much needed night away. We stayed at this wonderful resort that we traded our timeshare in for, and then gave the rest of the week to Jacob and Angie and their family, since they live near the resort. All-in-all it was a great week. We ended up leaving a few days early so we could get things into motion with the house, but we had a wonderful week. Here are some of my favorite pictures of our travels to visit family this past month.
**Pictures are backwards in events**

Isaac and Noah with Great Grandma Sally

Playing at GGrandma's

Hangin' Out

Noah was there too

Monkeyin' Around

The Driveway to Gramme and Papa's

Taylor at the Science Place

Thomas and Dad (Jonathon) at Science Place

The Ward's at the Science Place

The WHOLE family that went

Katie, Jonathon, Thomas and Allie spinning around

Levi, Jordan, and Taylor

Electrofing Hug

WOW!! Alley is shocking

Of course Noah was there too

Isaac loved that robot that told you all about the Science Museum

Bubbling PersonalityInside the bubble

Levi trying to be cool (HEHE just like Levi always is)

Thomas spinning

Jacob and Angie came to visit us too...

Isaac being tortured by Uncle Jacob

We still got a picture of you KatieRough Housing with Austin

Watch out he is getting ready to charge

Grammie spoiled the kids agian. (Thanks!)

Flying away...

The bird was nibbling on his ear

Listening for a heart beat in Grammie's foot, I guess Zac didn't teach him where his heart is.

YeHa

The lady that helped John so she could get help

Beautiful skies

We stopped to help an older couple that got their chains stuck.

Playing around at Karen's

Isaac's new best friend. Every kid that played with Isaac after this was Jordan.

The neverending game of Life

Kaley, Me, and Brittany

Kaley, Cris, and Brittany

Isaac playing with Caleb

Isaac loved all the cousins and uncles that he got to rough house with. It has been truly wonderful spending time with family and friends.