Tent-City

My mom must have spent a week or more getting everything ready for my Aunt Kelly and her girls to come visit.

She even set up "Tent-City" for all of us to sleep in.

Martha Stewart style tents with vases full of fresh-cut flowers sitting on top of bedside tables, hand-made quilts and ruffled pillow shams laying on air mattresses, baskets full of magazines and books to read, cute rugs, and hanging lanterns. (I meant to get pictures of Tent City, but I kept waiting for prettier light - and then I forgot.)

It was lovely though.

And it was peaceful too until my uncle showed up with an air horn.

And the company was great.

That's my aunt Kelly, who drove all the way from Utah to visit.

And that's my cousin, Beth with the girls.

And that's my grandpa.

And my friend Coral. (My mom is on the right.)

We even had live music. (Courtesy of Ross, who drove home from Seattle to spend the week with us.)

And comedy. (My Uncle Donnie always provides the comedy.)

And a professional photo-crasher. (Nice Ross.)

And cute girlies.

And there were crawdads, fresh from the creek to scare grandmas with. (That's my littlest cousin, Lee Lee with the crawdad.)

And good food.

And good conversation.

And lots of big cousins to carry you around if you didn't feel like walking.

And a creek to play in. (That's my friend Coral's son, Josiah.)

And some more music.

And walks.

And lots of goofing off.

And a late night game of cards.

And then we all stayed up late talking to our tent-mates in Tent-City before calling it a night. (Thanks for making it so wonderful mom.)

Comments

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Great pictures and the weather looks lovely. The heat in midwest is killing the fun around here.

[janel]

It makes my heart happy to see the love, your family and of course your extra extra special photos. Oh, the memories!! Lucky lucky family!

[renee]

How lovely that your Mum spent so much effort into decorating the tents. Love the picture of your Annie walking through that archway vine with her cuddle toy. Courtney's new hairstyle looks great.

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You guys always look like you have so much fun. Is Ross still seeing his sweetie? Where was Josh?

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What wonderful photos! But what I love most is the love you see in the photos. Great photos + emotionally perfect = pure Karen Russell.

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How wonderful to have family and friends visit that are just for the fun and the love.

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I absolutely love seeing your family and the beautiful photos!!! Is your family looking to adopt?! LOL

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The tent city sounds lovely!

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You must have had the best childhood with that family of yours. Lucky.

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So many blessing in this one post! I just love when you blog photos of your family get togethers. Esp love the photo of your girls in the tent and Uncle with blow horn and doggie (barking?) at Uncle. I can imagine the reaction after said photo!

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So much fun...I want to join in:) It is a lovely location that Tent City! May I ask where this is? It is so beautiful.

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Your Uncle Donnie totally cracks me up. When I see your posts of your family get togethers at your moms/uncles place it always reminds me of time spent with family, uncles, etc. up at our little cabin in the mountains. I love it. Only our "Uncle Donnie" is "Uncle Kyle" or Kolob as we call him (since EVERYONE on my husband's side has a nickname). Last time Jay took Ashleigh up to the cabin and I stayed home and the first thing she told me was how Uncle Ky-Ky was snoring so loud - like a machine gun! I can totally see Uncle Donnie doing that - if anything just to irritate the adults and tease the kids :) LOL

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