last weekend

last weekend we had aaron's aunt sue and uncle niel come visit us. we hadn't met them before, there's a long story to it that i won't get into in an online forum, but in a nutshell aaron's mother and (birth) father separated when he was two and aaron's had no contact with him for the past 30 years. aaron's mom did an absolutely awesome job raising him alone (something that i can't even imagine as a mother) and married aaron's stepfather before aaron and i started dating. we love them to death and weren't thinking our family dynamic would really change much, but then recently aaron tracked down his uncle niel, his dad's younger brother, which led to this recent reunion. sue is aaron's dad's sister and after much e-mailing and phone calls, aaron's "new" family came down for a day trip.

we had a really great day and the kids warmed right up to niel and sue-the jam packed Easter baskets sue brought for the kids didn't hurt either!

it was fascinating to hear about their children and families and to look through pictures of family that aaron was seeing for the first time since he was andie's age. we had already felt so fortunate to have our own wonderful families but meeting niel and sue reminded us that it's never a bad thing to have more wonderful family around you and more people to love and care about you and your children. we hope to head north and visit them the next time and meet cousins aaron never knew he had only months ago.