Family Weekend

Weekends have been busy lately, but two weeks ago we had a rare weekend with nothing outside of Evelyn’s soccer game planned.

About an hour before her game, I got call from my mom telling me that they were on their way to Columbus and would be there in a hour.  Say what?!  My parents wanted to see Evelyn play soccer – especially my mom since she hadn’t seen her play yet – so they (along with Shannon), hopped in the car and drove up to surprise us.  They met us at Evie’s game and asked me not to tell her that they were coming.  Evelyn ended up having a huge cheering section since ALL of her grandparents plus Shannon were at the game.  She was so excited so could barely contain herself on the field!

After the game, we all went out to lunch at Max & Erma’s.  It was such a nice, impromptu family get-together.  It had been a year since my parents had seen Rita and practically two years since they’d seen Tim and Katharine.  I really enjoyed having everyone together and I know the kids loved it.  I wish I would have thought to take pictures, but I was too busy enjoying the company!

After lunch, we headed back to our house with my parents and hung out there for a while.  My parents decided to get a hotel room at the Drury and we had little swim party that night.  The kids were beyond thrilled at getting to swim two weekends in a row!  The Drury is great because they have fantastic happy hour with all sorts of food and drinks.  We were able to eat there and didn’t have to worry about getting cleaned up or interrupting the kid’s swim fun to go out to dinner.  It really was a fun, low-key night of just hanging out and being together.  Evelyn wanted to have a sleepover so Pat and I left with Mitch (who flat out refused to stay) around 9.  He was a pretty worn out little boy!

I can’t tell you how much I enjoy and treasure these moments with family!