Family Reunion

My family reunion was amazing, on Sunday we did charades and they asked me to share about South Africa and pray for the boys and girls I 'helped'...but mostly thru the whole family reunion I kept thinking that all the craziness of family and being together and not trying to get on eachothers cases or just learning to love eachother from a distance as well as loving eachother 'up in eachother's face's' ...is not something everyone gets to have...some kids are abandoned, and sometimes there are good reasons and the parents really are crushed to leave their kids but still, it's not like the kid chooses to be left or raised in an institution...she is one such girl...I couldn't communicate with her because she had a lot of special needs and you never knew how much she understood...but one thing she loves is music...and my fav memory is taking the time to be with her when the younger babies were napping, leaving the floor cleaning and bottles to be made to later and putting on the lullaby cd and just holding her and dancing around the room...watching her smile and squeal and be excited cause we were enjoying the music...we couldn't use words and she didn't do well being harrassed by the other kids but we shared a moment in eachothers day and I so wish there could have been more

Last week at this exact time I was hanging with the following peeps of mine...hey that rhymed:) Elijah would notice that!
This is me and Nanay...
Me and the 'sons of thunder' I think thats what we coined but really they are two sweeties...until they want something they can't have...but I luved watching their friendship this weekend...I love knowing that cousins are friends...
We had Opa over and he is so great about the noise and random children that will need around, over or under him ( they come from all directions in enns fam reunions)...it seems he is just the best Grandpa is the whole world...and I luv him so much...thanks for coming over and spending time with us grandpa...
Once again, these are the boys I have lived with off and on over the years...minus ELijah...but I was so shocked by them just running up to hug me and playing with me from the first moment I got there...I thought it would take all my neices and nephews a bit to warm up to me...but Nanay jumped into my arms from the porch as I was walking up the sidewalk and Sim just started talking to me in his grown up way...He freaks me out he talks so well and the processing he does...Oh no, another Enns' processer :) feels like he's soon to be an enns adult and then we'll have to talk the issues out...talk alittle longer...and talk some more...oh well, maybe he needs to be a processer to be in this family....I luv them so much