The family that caravans together...

Well it's been quite a weekend here at the Casa de Doss. As you know, my family came into town and all 10 of us (really there are 11 of us but my BIL Scott was out of town for a work thing) co-habitated under my roof for 2 days. It was wild.

Marci and Kate made their debut early Friday afternoon and from the get-go the kiddos had a blast. Tucker particularly took a liking to Kate as she is smaller than he and he was just enamored by this fact. It also helped that Kate was Tucker's roommate. The kids played and played and Kate was fascinated by all the "boy" toys that we possess. She might have also liked the plethora of hands willing to pick her up, but that was secondary to the "new" cars.


Sometime that afternoon, we found out the A/C was broken upstairs. It was 104 outside and about 90 upstairs. Great. The timing was impeccable.

Later that evening my youngest sister, Jordana and her boyfriend, Shane appeared from Abilene and thus completed the mad chaos known as the family get together. Shane had no idea that he was going to be helping Stuart install a new window unit upstairs, but he had to earn his keep...

Soon enough it was time for baths and bed for the youngest three.


Saturday morning began with the sweetest giggling from Tucker's room. I went in to find Tucker standing in front of the pack-n-play and firmly declaring, "Kate wake up mommy!" Precious. Then began the fury of getting 7 people showered and clothed and out the door. My cousins was getting married and we were all caravaning up to Edmond, OK to witness this fantastic event.

2.5 hours later we arrived at my aunt and uncle's house to change and head over to the church. The wedding was beautiful. To my utter amazement the boys lasted thru the entire ceremony. This was no small feat. Unfortunately Kate did not fare so well, I think she might have been jealous of the attention being paid to the beautiful bride. :) We got to see my aunt and uncle, cousins, and a few other family members that I haven't seen in years. (I may or may not have told me cousin Rebekah to procreate NOW.)


Soon enough, the kids warned us that complete meltdown was immanent and so we loaded up and headed back to Wa-chee-tah Falls. During the drive we went thru the craziest and most beautiful lightening storm I have ever seen. Then the 60 mph winds started and I wasn't as impressed with the storm. We got home and found one of our trees snapped in half and laying against the roof. Ouch.


Sunday morning was a flurry of packing and loading. Everyone was gone by 10:30 am and all of a sudden my house was eerily quiet.


Shout Outs:
Yogurt Melts-apparently my children think of you as candy.
Magna Doodle-you totally kept my kids quiet during the wedding.
Wedding favors-chocolate!