On July 15th, we flew from Zurich to Atlanta...we stayed until August 9th. Here are a million pictures from our visit...we saw a lot of people, missed seeing even more people, and wore the kids "slap out". My parents are saints for letting us take over their space and cars and phones for 3 weeks... we take up every room now!
It was a real treat to bring Will home...just as it was with Cambelle a year and half ago. Our travels were uneventful except for Kacey's sick stomach...she's gets the 'travelling trooper' award along with Dave...I would have been much more cranky. We had a little family party for Cambelle's 2nd birthday...since her first birthday was overtaken by a family stomach bug. We took a day trip to lake Yonah, ate sushi, trucked up to the Chatanooga Allergy Clinic to see Dr. Marc, were treated to nice dinners with friends, swam with Steph and boys a lot, played and swam with Henry, Kate and other neighbors, saw old highschool friends and work friends, can't believe Hannah got me some muscadines, ate a million figs, had too many Krispy Kreme's...the list is endless. "Down home..." a nice place...
Landing in ATL, with loaded diapers ;-)
Welcome to your homeland, Baby Will!
Exhausted, dazed, but glad to see Papa whether I look it or not!
Mema, his GREAT grandmother, meets Baby Will.
Cambelle checking on the pink bigwheels...
Biking at BB's!
Nothin' rides like a Deere...yep, a John Deere bicycle...seriously!
"You're different lookin'...but I think I like ya."...Will with BB.
Hotlanta!
"I finally meet Aunt Sabrina..."
Megan on the world's most flimsy sliding board...Glad BB is solid!
Cambelle and Papa... she knows who to sit by...she had her first drink of Coke...until her mom spanked Papa ;-)
Hand cranked ice cream!
Oops...think Megan needs to move out of the baby chairs! ;-)
Crazy cousins..Kacey, Megan, Tristan, Cambelle...
Fairies...
Grammy and the kids...
A happy great grandpa with Will.
A much needed bath for some BB imitators.
Baby Will with mom and Sabrina's old Fisher Price Little People toys...
Mrs. Conis babysits while we play in the pool...thank you, "Honey"!
Christmas in July...the kids aren't buying it.
Will with Mema and Papa.
Megan showing of the artist in her!
Kacey and some artwork, also.
Will will soon be asleep...
Cherie and Bobbie's girls...
The Kendrix, Webb, Burgess kids... fun reunion at Bobbie's house.
If only they lived next door to me...two of Cambelle's best babysitters ever! Sarah and Hannah...
Will's babysitter...Leslie Ann...Lara's daughter (not obvious, is it...Lara's OTHER twin:-) )
Stephanie, Lara, Amanda, Leslie and me...at the rained out pool party!
Swimming later at Steph's pool...Matthew, Kacey, (Dave and Cambelle), Nicolas...
Our family with Amy and Neal on Lake Yonah...great day...
Rock jumps and swinging...
...and kayaking...
...and cranking...
Will with Gram.
Hank Binder...Neal and Amy's baby boy...
Cambelle's family party 3 weeks before she REALLY turned 2!
She had her own personal cake since her 1st birthday was not appropriately celebrated...
Mema and Papa with Will.
"I must have that yellow thing now!"
Kacey, Cambelle, and Megan.
One of many "pets" during our visit.
Sabrina and Will.
BB and his truck.
Honestly, the longest worm I've ever seen!
Will admiring his big cousin.
Will having a staring match with Uncle Scott.
Swimming in Burford with Gram, Dad, and Mom.
Ice cream with Gram.
Dinner with the Johnsons...Hannah, Cambelle, Kacey, and Mary Frances.
"Hey!"
Miss Sassy... Cambelle...
Cambelle hugging on Papa.
And now hugging on Mema.
She NEVER stops...now hugging BB's truck.
Mema...with Kacey, Will and Cambelle.
Now, back to hugging on Papa.
Trying to fatten up Papa with some Ice Cream...
Papa's pretty popular...now Kacey is hugging on him.
Papa with all the kids...
And, again, all the kids with Mema and Papa.
Papa cracks up Will.
Out to celebrate Mema's 84th Birthday at Longhorn steaks...
Cambelle G...
More Cambelle G...ready for nap...
