Myke & Me Plus ThreeFour

Monday, June 17, 2013

Quite evening at the Hines' abode. Our guests have left the building, thus concluding the first sets of visitors of Summer 2013. I say "sets" because the visitors who left today were my mom, my Aunt Traci and Aunt Helen (two of my mom's four sisters). My mom has been here since mid-May and came with my dad (who left late-May to head back to VA) but my aunts just came for a long weekend visit. The past month has been a lot of fun with a lot going on. It was so nice to have all the extra hands and for the kids to get so much time with their grandparents and then get a chance to know their great-aunts. It meant a lot to us that Helen & Traci came out to meet Ella and to spend time with us. A big thank-you to them for all the help, for doing quite a few loads of our non-stop laundry, for taking Kyla on walks, for keeping the kitchen clean and for filling up our recycling! And an extra-special thank-you to Aunt Traci for babysitting the boys & Ella this morning (Myke was at work and Chloë at school) so mom, Helen & I could go out for pedicures and I could get some grocery shopping done!

Traci reading to the boys today

We had a lot of fun over the long weekend. We went to the beach on Friday (Traci is visiting from Colorado and Helen from Las Vegas so seeing the ocean was a must), swam in the pool on multiple occasions, went to Chloë's soccer game, went out to dinner (got a babysitter!), and just hung out. On Father's Day my mom and the aunties babysat the kids so Myke and I could go out for coffee and lunch on our own. That was AWESOME. We actually got to TALK. And relax. Ahhhhh :)