painting grammie's nails - each one a different color
cool chicks in cool sunnies
the beauties - annelise, mallory, lexie & jilly
haley & kaitlyn w/ bruce & kyoko
jilly & annelise
mallory & anneliseMy brother Jason and his family have been stationed in Germany for the past 5 years and will be moving to Washington as he heads up the ROTC program at Pacific Lutheran College. They have traveled from New York across the US this past month visiting family and friends along the way. This is the first time I've seen Jason since Christmas '03, and this will be the first time in 8 years that ALL 8 of the Shrader children and their families are living in the same country at the same time.
It has been a long time since we've had a sleepover with Annelise and Kaitlyn, so yesterday, my sister Jenny and I took Annelise & Kaitlyn, Lexie & Haley (Jana's girls) & Mallory & Jillian shopping for the afternoon, ate dinner at Chili's, painted nails and all of the girls slept on the floor of our family room talking and watching movies until early in the morning. For breakfast Jenny made Swedish pancakes (my grandma would always make them for us when we slept over at her house) for all of us - plus Grammie, Uncle Jon & all the parents who came in the morning to join us.
It was so much fun, and I am so thankful to have the opportunity to have these moments with my girls and my nieces. So I hope it doesn't sound selfish when I say that I wish Washington was closer.
2 comments:
...so fun! Ok so there are EIGHT of you? I always feel like you are posting about another niece or sister! maybe one day it will all make sense. are there any nephews?
As you know..."closer" is a relative term. At least it is a domestic flight away for a visit.
So glad to see that you all had such a good time.
AND...i agree with Jord, perhaps someday I will connect who belongs to who :)
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