The Galbraiths visit the bay!

Last weekend, my sister, brother-in-law, and niece came to visit for a long weekend. It was great having some of our favorite Houstonians in our neck of the woods to visit. And Cavin was super excited to hang with yet another member of Team Cousin. After all the boy drama in Colorado, it was refreshing to hang out with the only girl cousin he's got. Plus, Grace has almost 5 years on him so he was able to chat about mature stuff like politics, the weather, and Disney characters.

We toured the Galbraiths around the bay area, stopping at the Golden Gate bridge for some pictures:



We also visited Ghiradelli square for some ice cream for Grace (coincidentally, everyone else ordered - and finished - theirs as well). I left the picture off the blog b/c it was an ugly, ugly sight to see.

Cavin and Grace enjoyed playing in the dirt outside.

And on Sunday, we hit up Fairyland in Oakland where Grace enjoyed all things princess-y and Cavin pretended he was too cool for all of the fairies (but secretly, he really enjoyed it).

The scariest part of the day was at the pirate ship. I was watching Cavin when he decided to play near the ropes. Innocently, I thought it would be cute to watch him grab it with his hand and shake it back and forth. What I wasn't prepared for was his insane ability to climb up it like a fast monkey!

At this point I had started yelling over to Mike "he's an advanced climber!! getoverherethishasgottostop! iampregnantandheissuperclimberthisisdangerous!" Mike, Andy, and Amy kept looking at me like i was nuts.

Instead of running over to save Cavin, Mike took a picture of the concerned mommy and monkey child...

Meanwhile, everyone else was concerned with Grace who ended up stuck at the very top and could not get down.

After Mike reluctantly came to "save" Cavin from his inevitable broken bones, Andy had to climb up himself to rescue Grace.

Don't worry, all cousins are safe and sound.

Another fun part of the weekend was that Jason, Grace's God-father happened to be in town for a conference. He made the treck over to Lafayette to hang with us for a night. It has been 5 years since Grace was with her two God-parents in the same room. For those unaware, we were all in Louisiana to 1) baptize Grace and 2) party in New Orleans, when Hurricane Katrina hit and we had to quickly evacuate (the city and our grand plans of partying on Bourbon Street). I think we had 3-4 cars headed down I-10, along with Grace (a newborn at the time), fighting everyone else evacuating New Orleans. I jokingly refer to that as the Cajun caravan back to Houston.

Anyways, here's a picture of Grace and her two God-parents...the first since her baptism, otherwise known as the day Hurricane Katrina hit.

And another one of Grace and Cavin...after I told Cavin that the Galbraiths were headed back home.

It was a really fun time!