Mother's Day Weekend

We decided to make a quick trip to Northwest Iowa

over Mother's Day weekend, to reunite all the new babies 

and celebrate some bithdays, too!

We went up Saturday morning and were home again by Monday afternoon.

Here are some of the highlights!

 

Avery meeting Weston

 

Daddy playing with the girls

Camryn and Aubrey have so much fun together!

Aunt Ash meeting Avery

 Jen meeting Weston

The WHOLE Van Grouw family

(for the first time since new babies)

 Grandma and Grandpa "Grouw"

with all six grandchildren

And now by themselves oldest to youngest :)

(too bad we didn't have a video of this ordeal!)

 The 3 newest, only a few weeks apart

Weston, Avery, Jaelyn

Suppertime for the 3 big kiddos

Jen meeting Jaelyn

(I'm more excited than her apparently)

hanging out in Ash's swing

It was a beautiful night to play outside

and run off some energy with the Dads.

Cool, Curt - thanks for the necklaces!

Avery and Jaelyn sharing some secrets. 

We had lots of presents for 

birthdays and baby gifts! 

Playing games with Curt and Daddy

Grandma Grouw and Ave

Happy Birthday, Camryn and Gavin!

Grandpa Grouw with Ave

Enjoying some birthday cake and ice cream!

Happy Mother's Day, Grandma

She's wearing "Her Royal Highness" ribbon from Aubrey

Uncle Curt meeting Avery

such a sweet smiler!

Uncle Josh with Avery 

Aunt Jessica got all three!

Sunday night - things got a little too scary as far as weather goes.

Sioux County was in a Tornado Warning and the whole

Van Grouw family was at Mom and Dads. 

So we all headed to the basement for about 30 minutes.

Thankfully nothing really happened other than wind and rain.

The bigger kids had an awesome time in the "fort" under the

pool table playing games with the flashlight.

All hanging out downstairs just to be safe 

All the babies were nicely asleep and didn't notice a thing.