Friday 23 January 2009

Catching up: Trip Home to the States

Mom with Rhys and Paige
Dad with Rhys and Paige

Arlen with Rhys

Me with Paige

Shauna and I with Rhys in his wrap

Hope you don't mind me playing a bit of catch up here. As I said in the last post, I am going to have to just brush over everything and for anyone who wants to see all our pictures, they are on our Picasso site.
Rhys and I left for the US of A on Nov. 17th and arrived on the 18th. Mom was there to collect me and we had dinner with my brother and his wife and their daughter Paige. It was good to see Paige as she is 4 days younger than Rhys. We had a really nice time at home and were lucky to see a lot of Arlen and Jessi and their family as they were living with Mom and Dad while waiting for his new job to start. Shauna's field wasn't far away either, so we saw quite a bit of her too. We had 5 weeks in total there with Eldon joining us 10 days before we left.
When we arrived, Rhys was just on 4 months and when we left for NZ, he was 5 1/2...it is still amazing how quickly they grow and change and learn new things. We started Rhys on cereal while we were home which in itself was an adventure.
One of the neat things that happened when we were in the USA was it snowed! Eldon and I have been so lucky...the last two years we have been home in the winter and it has snowed and stuck. We love having a break from the heat and it's even more fun to enjoy a white christmas. This time we actually went sledding...I'll post pictures of that later I think so that this post doesn't get too long.

2 comments:

Penny said...

that's so cute Rhys has a cousin so close in age :) Had to laugh at your Mom and Dad holding 2 there :)

Sandra Ramey said...

Holding two at once....hmmm...maybe thats how my neck got wrenched? Wouldn't trade it for anything though.
Love, Nana