Baby Blase

A nonchalant email  from my oh-so-big-city-cousin Meredith a few months ago reporting that they were going to be visiting Austin – that’s the capital of TEXAS, where… wait for it… REPUBLICANS have lived!!! – took us a bit by surprise.

Regardless of the surprise we were excited to see them – it had been almost 2 years — since Harrison was 3 months old and Kylie and Jeff had gotten married.

They arrived in time for Easter, where we all pulled together a really pretty, great last-minute Easter Egg hunt.

As well as a great Easter meal where the four of us parents attempted to engage in an adult conversation over the din of the newly-acquainted-cousin banter – hence no photos to document the feast.

A couple of days later we visited the cousins at their great resort outside of Austin where there was SWIMMING!

And cows and horses and a sandy beach that lead into the pool and Jillian and Anna — Harrison’s newest, most favorite people in the world.

Jendsen Family – WE LOVED SEEING YOU IN TEXAS! Thank you for sharing a great Easter week with us! Let’s do it again sometime!

UPDATE: It is now months after their visit and Harrison continues to remember Jillian with love. At times when he is very HAPPY he will sing out with glee “Happy Easter Jillian!” regardless of the occasion or appropriateness of sentiment. It is so incredibly cute.

Listening: Those Darlins (Tari – have you listened to them yet!? – Get on it!)