Getting excited!

Oh yes...very excited.  The Holdsworth extended family is on the eve of welcoming the first GREAT GRANDCHILD into the world.  

The girls (Kristin and Rachey) have been waiting and waiting and waiting for this (and peeking in on a pinterest item or two...)  The party was absolutely delightful.  Good food and good company.

Kristin flew all the way out from Pennsylvania to let us shower her with love and gifts.  I even made a video aimed at convincing my nephew to give up on his claim to naming the unborn child...don't think it worked :(  

BUT...my nephew Grantos DID score a huge job move and they are on their way back to the homeland to be reunited with us just in time for this baby to get some serious lovin'!

 

In true Holdsworth fashion - no opportunity was wasted to party...so we took the party down to Lake Mary and had a big ol' fish fry - courtesy of Grandpa Grant and his Alaskan salmon.

Boys got in...and tried to show off muscles...

Then swiftly got out (yes David I realize he's shirtless again...)

Sobbed our eyes out as we bid our cousins farewell and good luck on their journey to the motherland.

Paddle board rides free of charge you just have to brave the muddy murky water.

Not quite sure how well the marshmallow/plastic fork roast turned out...

Moving on through the month...I couldn't pass up an opportunity to capture three brace faces...

Little Indy's first 11yr. old scout camp out (yes, he forgot to throw his sleeping bag in so we had to race home and grab it...no, he wasn't happy about the set-down his parents gave him)

9 kids and 1 crazy lady AFTER we saw the movie - everyone still happy...with shoes on...and ALL accounted for!

A random morning jog on the Willow Lake Trail

A random pre-teen who searched all over for the perfect fake glasses.

DAM good photo Uncle Ray Firedance - thank you for the awesome day on the awesome boat!

Last BUT certainly NOT least...we stayed at a hotel this summer that had a STRICTLY BALLROOM competition going on!! OK.  So maybe it wasn't called "strictly ballroom" but they were all doing hardcore ballroom dance competition...it was SOOOO awesome.  I wish I had written down the names of the classes (dramatic dance make-up etc...) I just wanted to sit in the lobby and take 1000photos...but I had to chase Ella and the rest was history :(  What I would have given to be able to sneak in and watch from the back corner...perhaps perhaps perhaps (pun intended)....another time.