Repentance, Part I

According to my mother, I have been derelict in my duties in keeping you up to date with the goings on of the Hutchings family.  Who me?  So I guess this is the beginning of my repentance process.  I'm going to do some massive "catching up," so if you don't want to see massive loads of pictures, either go visit someone else's blog, or run, very fast, away from your computer.  We recently got back from a trip to Utah.  We timed it so that we could be in town at the same time as Nathan's sister Misha and her cute family.  They just moved to Washington (state) from Ohio, and so were in town for a few days on their way to their new place.  We only had 2 days with them, but it was a lot of fun.  We hung out,

 

played games, celebrated Misha's birthday,

 

 

and attempted to get a family picture where everyone was actually looking at the camera.

 

One of the best parts of visiting family is watching the girls interact with and get to know everyone better.  Savvy always adores being with Grandpa and Grandma,

and (Great) Grandpa George

 But this time she also enjoyed being with Aunt Misha, Uncle John, and Cousin Caleb.

 

 

If she could talk, I'm sure Ella would tell you that she loved her visit too.

 

  

  

Uncle John did his best to teach her his tricks, though his attempted lesson in walking hasn't taken as of yet...(thank goodness)!

Though he did seem to have the magic touch in other ways.

Cousin Caleb even took some time to teach her about belly buttons.

 

 It was so fun to be together--we just wish we could do it more often!