I feel so blessed to have been given the last minute opportunity to have my bestest friend and sister, Christina, and her two darling girls visit us!!! Thanks to my sweet brother, Bryan, and amazing dad, Christina was able to spend a week here in Delaware last week!! It was such a happy surprise since I am not sure we will be able to make it home this summer :( Despite a few disastrous bumps in the road...we had an absolute blast!!!
Here is one random picture of Jane and Beckham on Easter!! I just thought it was too cute not to include!
Unfortunately on this trip, the worst, most horrible, most unlikely, disastrous event occurred. Yes, Jane got sick on the very day, Christina came in:(!! I am talkin' throw-up, diarrhea, fever sick!! The timing was so terrible. So as a result, poor Jane was quarantined in her room for the whole first day of our trip. Sweet little Jane was a trooper and was happy to take one for the team to help her cousins stay healthy! I just love this sweet little gal:)
You may not be aware of the fact that we live in a handicap accessible
home. So, the guest bathroom has a very strange shower rather than a
tub. Since Jane was sick and using our bathroom with the only tub...this was our solution to bathe Christiana's kids while still keeping them separate from Jane. Strange... but it worked!! And Mae and Claire loved it-haha!!
Well, I spent that first day cleaning, sanitizing, doing laundry and basically just being a basket case. Despite all that, disaster reared her ugly head yet again on this trip. I got sick the very next day. Ryan was nice enough to get Christina and the kids out of the house to have a little fun, while also staying away from poor sick Jane and I. Jane and I were bummed to be left behind, but glad to see that Christina and her kids got to have a little fun.
Thankfully, the next day we all felt good enough to make the trip to Maryland to visit my brother, Matthew and Courtney and their kids. We had a lot of fun hanging with family. There is nothing better than family!!!
We took a short walk to a darling little park. This kids had a blast!!
Jane was a little grumpy...but snapped out of that quick.
This was our best attempt at getting a group shot of the kids- haha!! I love all these sweet kids!!
Christina and I got to have another adventure at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania!! The flowers were stunning!!
It was a little chilly so several blankets were necessary. Don't they look cute all bundled up?
The day turned out to be beautiful and perfect. We had so much fun exploring this beautiful place on such a lovely day:)
There was a neat little log cabin that the kids loved exploring. Sweet baby Claire looks so darling in this pic!
Here we are at the bell tower.
The kids loved the Children's portion of the gardens!!
Claire was grateful to get out of the stroller and splash around in the water for a bit!! She was a sweetie the whole day.
The next several days were spent just relaxing and exploring Dover :) We found a cool little Cafe inside an old home!! The kids were tough...but we did get to eat some delicious cookies!!
As usual, we visited Fifer Farms and got their famous apple cider slushies and doughnuts!!
And rode on the fun swings.
The horse, tire swings are always a hit with the kids!!
This trip came and went too fast :( and Despite the crazy sicknesses that blew threw, everyone stayed healthy and we had the best time ever!! I am so glad my sis braved the long, terrible flight alone with her two kids to visit us!! I love my sis and am so grateful to have her. I really do have the best family in the world!!
