Visiting Family

We went to Colorado the weekend of Jun 27th to visit family. We went to Denver and stopped by my Grandma Criswell's. She is 91 years old and lives in a nice assisted living center. Grandma was very excited to meet her new great-grandbaby. She walked us all over her floor to introduce Madeline to her many friends.

We left Denver and headed up the mountains to my other grandma's house. The 29th of June was her 81st birthday. I planned a big birthday party so the whole family could get together. It was amazing. Everyone was there except Aunt Toni (who lives down the street from Grandma) and Toni's two kids. Kathy was in Nevada with her boyfriend's family and Jeff couldn't leave Rock Springs.

Here is Grandma holding Madeline. Madeline is her 9th and most recent great grandbaby.

This is my cousin Renee with her little boy, Van Alan, who was born in the middle of February.

This is my cousin Rachelle's fiance, Allan, walking with my cousin Cori's two oldest girls Emily (5) and Charlie Anne (almost 4) and my Aunt Greta's little girl, Lacy (almost 5). Allan is a great uncle...he even carried those girls, sometimes two at a time, for a while. Notice their cute dresses...my mom made dresses for all six little girls...these three and Cori's youngest, Breezy, Madeline and Kathy's Shyanne.

This is Aunt Dolly with her newest grandbaby, Nate. He is Jolene's 2nd little boy who was born the end of January. Jolene and her kids live in Tulsa, Oklahoma and came the farthest for the party. A BIG thanks to Aunt Dolly for buying them plane tickets so they could come!

This is my cousin, Ben, Aunt Greta's oldest kid. He is 16 and is a great kid. He was helpful with the little ones AND he played us awesome music from his I-POD. I liked all his music...he had the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and other classics!

Renee took family pictures of us all and one big picture with everyone. She is going to send me a disk with all the pictures...when she does I will post the big one on here.