A Visit From Kaye and Nathan

Ross's sister, Kaye, and her family (husband, Chris and son, Nathan) live in Louisiana. So needless to say, we rarely see them. In fact, we haven't seen them since before Leah was born. But Kaye and Nathan recently came out for a visit while Nathan was on spring break. (Chris couldn't come because he was very busy back at his base preparing for an air show. He is a pilot in the Air Force and is the director of this year's show.) We were very excited for their visit. We even worked with Leah to make sure she knew their names when she saw them. So she was pretty excited when the time came to go see Kaye and Nathan at Grandma's house.

The day before they flew here was Nathan's 13th birthday. So Ross's mom wanted to throw a family birthday party for him to make sure he felt special while he was here. So after church on that Sunday we all gathered at her house for a yummy dinner and birthday celebration. She also got out all her plastic eggs so the kids could have an Easter egg hunt out in the yard. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day at the end of March. It was so warm and the kids loved playing out in the yard together.

Here's some pictures from the egg hunt. Leah was still a little unsure how this whole egg hunting thing worked, so Nathan helped her gather eggs. Leah mostly just followed the kids around holding her bag.

 Here's Leah and her buddy, Gavin. Gavin loves to play with and dote on Leah when he sees her. And Leah loves it too!

 After the egg hunting, we had some delicious cake and ice cream. Nate is really into soccer, so his Grandma made sure she got him a soccer cake. Kaye said Nate has never had so many family members at any of his birthday celebrations before. It was fun to be able to celebrate with him.

 During the week days while Kaye and Nathan were here, they had a lot of fun things planned including visiting each of Kaye's siblings' houses for dinner. We got to have them for dinner on Thursday (the night before they left to fly back home). Leah was so excited to see Kaye and Nathan again. She loved Kaye and absolutely adored Nathan. He was so sweet with her. She loved having him take her outside to play and having him play with and tickle her on the floor. She was really sad when it was time for them to leave. Here's a picture of them with Leah before they left our house that night.

We were so glad that Kaye and Nate got to come out for a visit. Leah still talks about "Kaye Nathan." (She almost always says their names together like that.) In fact, when we went to Ross's mom's a couple of days ago, she thought we were going to get to see them again. I had to remind her that Kaye and Nathan weren't there anymore because they went home on an airplane.

But she's already gearing up for the next big family visit in July when Kyle, Amy and Jackson come to Grandma's house! When I was telling someone tonight that Kyle and Amy were coming in July, without any prompting Leah said, "Jackson!"

We've got a great Leslie family and I'm so glad that Leah loves them all so much!