4th of July

Every 4th of July we spend the weekend down at Meme's (Andy's grandmother) lake house with all of Andy's extended family. They all come into town from various cities and we hang out for a long weekend at the best lake house in town. This year we had the two newest members of the family join us. Most of us were meeting the darling babies for the first time. Nora and Alice were beyond awesome! They are such good babies that just loved every new person they met. They smiled almost the whole time and went to everyone that was willing to hold them. The fact that they are twins was awesome because everyone was able to get their baby fix in!





Here is the whole crew!
front row: Amy, Megan, Cally, Danielle, Jeff, Cameron
middle row: Alice, Jessica, Bartlette, Hayes, Meme, Donnie, Jenny, Bill
back row: Nora, Rhys, Scott, Todd, Andy

Here we are showing our true side! We can only be serious for so long!

Introducing Alice (left) and Nora (right)! They are so cute!

Here is the Yancey clan!

(L to R): Jenny, Meme, Bart, and Amy

While we were down there we celebrated Danielle turning 25! Happy Birthday Danielle! Cally made this awesome fruit pizza!

I love this next picture for so many reasons. Andy is great with kids (in this case Alice) and gosh he is so cute.

Amy got this picture because Danielle and I were both wearing brown swim suits and holding the babies! Danielle has Nora and I have Alice. Also Alice is teething and that was a frozen washcloth that she was chewing on.

Jeff and Danielle with Nora.

We were finally able to get these kids naked! Here they are on a towel on the dock. Alice is on the left and Nora on the right. Yes, they were this happy all weekend. Even when we had to keep them awake from 4-7 each night.

Here is Alice sitting up unassisted for the first time. Rhys is there to catch her just in case but she was amazing.

I think this is my favorite picture from the weekend. Just so sweet!! Here was Meme with Alice right after a bottle. I guess she just needs more time with Meme because they put her down for her nap just after this picture was taken and she slept for 2 hours. I think that is a record for little Alice.

We didn't just hang out with the twins! We did go out in the 3 boats we had at the house. Here are the girls on the boat: Meme, Cally, Megan, Hayes and Amy.

Boys on a boat: Andy, Todd, Scott and Rhys

Bill and Amy

Jenny and Donnie

Here is Bill surfing behind the boat! Check out his moves!

Cally getting a grab for the first time. She is an awesome wake boarder and getting better each year!

I love this picture. Andy is an unbelievable skier. Here is a shot Amy got from the weekend.

All photo credit goes to Amy and Bill.

The weekend was so much fun. I can't wait until next year when the babies will be skiing (haha just kidding) and we get together again. Thanks to everyone for making this weekend so much fun. Love you all so much and am so happy to be part of the family!!

love always,