My cousin Jan, her husband, Gerry, and daughter Neily came through town on a roadtrip last night and stayed the night at Casa Valenzona. We loved having them visit our home for the first time. We shared a few great meals (it's lucky i know lasagne for dinner and pancakes for breakfast- 2 of my limited specials!) and stayed up late for girl talk with good wine (Jan and Christie) and boy talk with good cigars by the pool (Gerry and Guy). Neily was so sweet to bring boxes of her toys to hand down to Avery and some very special hand-made gifts. Thank you Neily! Avery will love her new books, dolls and games. Unfortunately, Avery came down with the horrible-sounding, but very common "Hand, Foot and Mouth virus" and a cold the day before their visit so our normally joyful, sleeps-through-the-night baby was a bit irritable and decided to wake up crying every hour through the night! Sorry, Greens! We hope they will get more rest at their hotel in Monterey tonight. We hope they love the aquarium too. Here are a few pictures taken before they left this morning for SF and Monterey (please note Christie's sweet pajama attire and bright green socks- it's the uniform for all deliriously tired mommies :-)
Ah, so sweet! So great that Jan, Gerry and
ReplyDeleteNeily could visit Casa Valenzona. I'm sure
you all "caught up" with wine and cigars.
Sounds so great! Hope Avery is feeling
better. Get good rest tonight! Ah, the
joys of having children. Anyone that's
had them understands.