'The Californians'

We were so excited that my sister and her family could come for a visit this summer. 

They came out to celebrate Gran's birthday, which is also Imogen's birthday! It was a great celebration of two great gals.

Gran and ALL her grandkids

While they were here there was lots of swimming, lots of eating, lots of hanging out, and lots of fun! 
Uncle Ian seemed to be conned into giving strokes lessons several days at the pool. All the kiddos loved it when he got in the pool.

The cousins got along famously which gave the adults some great hanging out time!

Liam had some food goals we had to meet while there were in Memphis. Top of his list was BBQ, which he ate 3 sandwiches of, fried okra, and some things he didn't even realize he needed in his life like Banana Trifle and Poncho's Cheese Dip.

We spent one day rock climbing at Memphis Rox, which Evan quickly named "Heaven on Earth." Man, the bouldering is harder than it looks. I much preferred the big wall with someone belaying me.

One of the last days we had a thunderstorm. These aren't very usual in California, so we had some free entertainment for a couple hours. Their entertainment was watching the storm. Our entertainment was watching them...

We are so glad they got to spend a few days with us. We can't wait for our turn to take TN to CA!!