Company and Packing

It's a semi busy week here...We have company coming in tomorrow (I'm soooo excited about this), and I'm in the midst of trying to pack for our first family vacation ever!  How sad is it that the only traveling we've done as a family is one trip to see my mom and cousins for Thanksgiving.  I don't really count that as a vacation.  It looks like we are soon headed to Virginia Beach for a week of lazy fun with some of our closest friends.  We've rented a house for the week and intend to do nothing that we don't want to do (other than change dirty diapers because I kind of don't have a choice about that one).

My dad's youngest brother and his wife are coming up tomorrow.  I honestly can't remember the last time I saw them.  Maybe at my sister's first wedding (almost 9 years ago)?  I know Ashley saw them at my grandmother's funereal, but I'd just had Jordan and couldn't go.  It seems so strange to me to go so long without seeing my uncle when that side of the family was always so close.  It seems that the older everyone got the more their lives began to drift apart.  This is one of the reasons that we cousins on that side began getting together every Thanksgiving-making family a priority again had to start somewhere.

Anyway, I've been cleaning the house while trying to pack.  I don't want their first impression of our house to be 'Aack!'  And I'm A.R. enough to have begun making a packing list right after we rented the beach house.  I mean, I'm packing for 4 people for a week-if I didn't have a list we'd forget at least half of what we need...

I will be taking a gazillion pictures over the next several days so keep an eye out for much fun:)

Fortunately they are keeping themselves occupied while I am busy!