One of the best parts of our wedding weekend at the hotel with family was that somehow through the magic of the passage of time, we are the parents of the Big Kids. You know, the kids who can help out with the little kids. The ones that you can let go visiting in the hotel lobby or in another room. How amazing is that!? It was great. And as if we wouldn't have appreciated that enough on its own, we also got those first-hand reminders of how very intense life with babies and kids under age 3 is. It is exhausting even just to watch! Our kids had a lot of fun with Kyla and Mitchell, and maybe even more fun with Sierra, Colton, Crosby and Jay IV (Aly is practically a grown-up, so I'm not counting her as a kid anymore). I realize this is the last big family event that we'll all travel to together – the last of the Mitchell kids to get married, and they've all graduated college. That's a little bittersweet. But hopefully there will still be trips to the river, and maybe even vacations to new places too. Sunday, August 7, 2016
It's good to be the parents of the big kids
This past weekend, we finally got to officially welcome Nikki AtLee to our family as she and Stevie married! Hooray!
One of the best parts of our wedding weekend at the hotel with family was that somehow through the magic of the passage of time, we are the parents of the Big Kids. You know, the kids who can help out with the little kids. The ones that you can let go visiting in the hotel lobby or in another room. How amazing is that!? It was great. And as if we wouldn't have appreciated that enough on its own, we also got those first-hand reminders of how very intense life with babies and kids under age 3 is. It is exhausting even just to watch! Our kids had a lot of fun with Kyla and Mitchell, and maybe even more fun with Sierra, Colton, Crosby and Jay IV (Aly is practically a grown-up, so I'm not counting her as a kid anymore). I realize this is the last big family event that we'll all travel to together – the last of the Mitchell kids to get married, and they've all graduated college. That's a little bittersweet. But hopefully there will still be trips to the river, and maybe even vacations to new places too.
One of the best parts of our wedding weekend at the hotel with family was that somehow through the magic of the passage of time, we are the parents of the Big Kids. You know, the kids who can help out with the little kids. The ones that you can let go visiting in the hotel lobby or in another room. How amazing is that!? It was great. And as if we wouldn't have appreciated that enough on its own, we also got those first-hand reminders of how very intense life with babies and kids under age 3 is. It is exhausting even just to watch! Our kids had a lot of fun with Kyla and Mitchell, and maybe even more fun with Sierra, Colton, Crosby and Jay IV (Aly is practically a grown-up, so I'm not counting her as a kid anymore). I realize this is the last big family event that we'll all travel to together – the last of the Mitchell kids to get married, and they've all graduated college. That's a little bittersweet. But hopefully there will still be trips to the river, and maybe even vacations to new places too. 
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