BUSY!

It has been busy around here! I only had a couple of days after we got back from NY to prep for the next activities. On Saturday Jeff's cousin Lacey, sister Misha and her two kids Fanisha and Zanayah all drove down from NY to visit, then we were taking Fanisha to Indiana to meet her dad there. Jeff & Misha's brother Mike was also in Cincinnati visiting his girlfriend Jill, so they drove up too to see everyone. But, Mike and Misha hadn't seen each other in two years, so we didn't tell Misha he was coming. What a surprise that was! I laughed so hard!

We had lots of fun, sweating out back while the kids played on the Slip-n-Slide, shopping, eating, drinking and playing cards late into the night. We laughed and laughed. It was a riot.

Here are the cousins, Jeff, Misha, Mike & Lacey (if Lacey's sister Tasha was here that would've been all the Brackman first cousins.)


Here we're trying to get a picture of the siblings, they couldn't stop goofing off though! Jeff, Misha and Mike.


Here's Uncle Mike with Fanisha (above) and Zanayah. They hadn't seen him in two years either.


Here's the next generation of Brackman cousins: Zanayah, Roman & Trey. Fanisha is missing from this pic.



Once everyone had left on Sunday we went to church, then came home and quickly packed up to meet Fanisha's dad in Indiana then drive south to Cincinnati to spend a few days. Jeff was working just over the border in Kentucky so the boys and I went with him to enjoy a family trip and a free hotel room! We had a blast swimming and playing at the hotel and visiting downtown Cincinnati and the riverfront Monday evening. We walked across the Purple People Bridge from Cincinnati into Newport, Kentucky. It's the longest pedestrian bridge crossing two states, or something like that. It was a lot of fun and there were tons of things to see. It's just too bad it was over 100 out and we thought we might die of the heat! Notice that Roman is bright red in the pictures, that's from heat, not sunburn!

Here are a couple of Jeff and the boys at the Riverfront:




Here are two shots of the Purple People Bridge:


And here am I with the boys on the bridge about to start the long walk across!