Bringing People Together

Quite a while back, Grandma and Grandpa Asai called.

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Them: "Hi, we were thinking of visiting. We were thinking maybe the weekend of March 12."

Us: "Well, that's so far in advance we don't have our schedules yet. We don't have vacation, and we don't know if we'll be on-call."

Them: "That's ok. Will Noah be there? That's all that really matters."

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Well, that's not verbatim, but that was basically the summary of the conversation. So, they booked their tickets, and as it turned out, we were around for most of it. I had call on the day that they left, but otherwise, we got to spend some time with them as they played with Noah.

Noah and Grandpa having some quality time on the couch

Grandma Asai shows Noah how cool rattles are

So they came. Of course, Noah was excited to see them. He was especially excited that Grandpa Asai brought him a toothbrush and that he could finally have someone who knows what they're talking about examine them.

And Noah, being the uniter that he is, rallied up the troops and invited everyone over for dinner at our place.

Cousin Ellia was chilling out, maxin', relaxin' all coolin' on the couch

Noah likes Grandpa Egle's hand hold

It was fun to get together and see people. Dinner was great. Some of it may have ended up on Kevin's head, thanks to his daughter.

And of course, after dinner, Ellia got all crazy like she tends to do, and she started table dancing... Fortunately for us, Kevin was able to restrain himself and didn't join her.