Ryan and Ash Were Here!

When we lived in San Diego, we hung out with my cousin, Ryan, and his wife, Ashley, a ton. Especially me and Ashley - we made cards together. Actually, I should say that Ashley taught me how to make cards. :) She is a scrapbooking and cardmaking genius.

I've missed them dearly since we moved here. Brandon, Ryan's younger brother, and his family are moving to Germany in a few weeks, and Ryan and Ash came up a couple of weeks ago to spend time with them. It was a super-busy weekend for me, but I did manage to go visit them on a Monday afternoon. And then Micah was being really AWESOME, so we only stayed for an hour. I'm a crappy cousin.

Right as I was getting ready to leave, I realized that I had brought my camera and hadn't taken any pictures. So I took some really quickly. It was kind of retarded of me. Oh well.

Boyd came home early from work:

My camera was freaking out in that light. I don't know why.

My family has this Boyd joke. It originated with the game, Balderdash. The word was "hyoid," and we all had to come up with fake definitions for it, and then hope that other people voted for our definition. It's a good game, and I usually kick butt at it, being an English major and all. I can fake the official dictionary language and all that. Anyways, when we got the word "hyoid," Nat (I think), wrote as her definition: "What people say to Boyd when he comes into a room." My mom laughed for like an hour when that "definition" was read. She was laughing so hard that she was crying. So now, whenever any of us sees Boyd, we go, "Hyoid!!!" We told him about it once, but I think he's forgotten, because now, when we say, "Hyoid!" to him, he looks at us quizzically, like, "My name's not Oyd..."

Aunt Marilyn is famously camera-shy:

She was shaking her finger at me, like, "No, no, no...."

Brandon, soon moving to Germany:

Ugh, my camera was having some major problems. This is Smeary Ryan, playing Wii:

It was some kind of Tiger Woods game.

Ashley LOVES babies. Here she is with Micah:

And it's a good thing she loves babies, because she's expecting one this fall! Her fourth boy. She does so well during her pregnancies. Very little nausea. It makes me jealous.

Love you guys! And miss you.