Yesterday we went to visit my Aunt Melba down in Alex City. We had not been down in quite a while and it was different being there without my Uncle Charles. He died 4 days before Arwen was born and I wasn’t able to travel to the funeral due to the long drive and being very pregnant so this was the first time I was able to go down and visit with my Aunt and cousins. It was a very good visit. Aunt Melba really enjoyed seeing Arwen and Anya and she cooked a really great lunch for Travis and I. My Aunt is known for being a great cook. She made roast, mashed potatoes, pear salad, carrots, butter beans, and biscuits. I love her butter beans, they are by far my favorite and I forgot how much I love pear salad too. And of course she made pound cake, which in my opinion, could win contests… its so good! Anya only wanted biscuits but she had a good time there, she liked her dogs Al (short for Almond) and Hershey, Almond is a blonde lab and Hershey is a chocolate lab. And Aunt Melba brought out games and puzzles for Anya to play and she got to watch cartoons too!
Then, we went to my Aunt Karen’s house. She’s actually my cousin, but she’s older than me by quite a few years and I don’t want Anya and Arwen to call her just Karen, so it seems a bit nicer to refer to her and my other cousins as Aunt or Uncle whoever. Karen lives on Lake Martin and has a beautiful house which she has been in over 5 years but we had not been able to see until now because we always lived so far away. So, we got to see her house and Travis and Anya played pool and we all visited with my family for a few hours. My cousin Grant brought his new baby, Andrew, who was born October 13th last year and it was the first time we got to see him too.
Anya liked Karen’s house too. She had a great time throwing rocks in the lake and playing pool and playing with Karen’s dog Fancy.
Arwen did great as well. She let everyone hold her and rarely cried about anything. She seemed to like everyone and was very sweet. And of course everyone adored her too. Here’s some photos from our trip…
Here’s my Aunt Melba and Arwen

This is my Aunt Karen’s house…

Here’s Travis and Anya by the lake…photo by cousin Candace…

And another photo by Candace of all of us…