Nov 9 - 11: Team ABC London and His Mountainous Visit PA!

As soon as we could meet our newest little nephew, Carson, we did!  Team ABC (AK/Bill/Carson - as named by the family) came to spend a weekend with us in PA and we loved every second of it!

Michael showed Carson a little bit about Pokemon:

Carson was a VERY good sport and an eager listener:

The first night, Team ABC came and immediately used our American sized laundry facilities!  We understand exactly how they felt and were happy to be able to share our home with them!

After dinner, we played some pinochle and played with cute little Carson!

The next morning, we went to the Longwood Gardens and took a LOT of pictures.  This was my favorite and I need to do a post of just the images from Longwood:

I am going to put the blog post in the queue but won't publish it until later.  So you'll want to come back here to look!

Then on Saturday, his Mountainous made his debut into PA:

Brian was especially skeptical:

Good thing we have our blog locked down from the public now!!

Brent was great fun and we all enjoyed hanging out together to watch Texas A&M BTHO #1 ranked ALABAMA!!!!  It was AWESOME being able to watch that game with family and fellow Aggies.  We were so thankful for Bill and AK being here!

We had a great dinner afterwards because Brian insisted we have Blanquette de Veau, which meant I spent much of the Aggie game in the kitchen.

After Michael went to bed, AK and Bill were introduced to much swearing from Brent as we played Speed Scrabble, and Bill dominated us once again.  I had the table cracking up at my midnight spelling of "Fart" and "Wand" in order to rack up a whoppin' 30-40 points in extra letters.  But it was worth it to see that all I had the mental capacity to spell at that time was Fart Wand.

The next day, we just relaxed around the house, hiked in the wood, and did more laundry!  Oh yes, and we ate.  SOME MORE. :)

Thankfully, we got a great picture of the family on the deck.  Brian blinked:

Then, Brian opened his eyes, but now for some reason, all the cousins have their shirts halfway up their bellies:

And then after this, I made Carson upset somehow, and we were done!  :)

We saw Brent off in his rented minivan:

We told him how much we missed seeing Tracy, his beautiful new wife and made promises to see them in the Bay Area soon.

We spent the rest of the day hanging out with Team ABC and made sure they had nothing but clean clothes to bring back!  It was a very relaxing weekend and we loved being able to spend it with them!

Stay tuned for the Longwood pics.  I need to edit a few and then they are up.  :)  MANY more blog posts to come...

I have not been blogging, but it's not for lack of material!  :)
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