Family, Friends, and "first times"

What a busy week/weekend we had with family and friends.  My cousin Riccardo came over for a week from Italy.  It was our first time meeting.  What an expierence that was.  So most of last week was spent out at my moms house hanging out with family.  On Thursday we all went bowling. 

Here is me and Noah on our way to bowling.  Jason stayed home with Luke, so he could get Luke to bed on time and rest up himself since he had work early friday morning.

Noah's first time bowling.  He had a blast!!

And this is Riccardo

Friday night we all went to the drive-in to see Cars 2.  I think we all enjoyed it and this was Noah and Luke's first time at a Drive-in.

Hanging out before the movie.  Here is my mom, Riccardo, Jason, and Noah.

And here is Luke :)

Grandma and her boys having fun.

Almost time for the movie to start.  Here is my sister Mara, her bf Cody, Noah and my nephew Elijah.

Saturday we had a cook out with a bunch of Jason's friends.  It was a great time with great food, even though it did rain.  No pics to post from that day... took a few but not very good ones.  Sunday we went back out to my mom's house for another cookout and then we had to show the Italian how to play bags.  We also had a little fire and roasted some marshmellows and let Noah catch some lightning bugs :)  Again no pics :(

Monday Jason's cousin Todd and his family were in from Washington, so we went out to Grandma Niemann's house for yet another cookout.  Todd has 2 kids, Caden 4, and sweet Ella 1.  It was great seeing our kids play with eachother. 

Luke and Ella.  Hard to get a good pic of these too, but still so cute!!

Noah and Caden.  Noah will be 3 in Aug and Caden turned 4 the begining of this month.  Can't belive Noah is as big as him!! Love their smiles!!

All the cousins (that were there) 

Time to say bye bye with some hugs.

And that is the end to our busy but wonderful time with friends and  family.  Can't wait to do it all again!