Tytus thought Jedidiah needed to hold the light saber and was LOVING it! crack me up…Jedidiah looks a bit overwhelmed...

Just a quick memory that I can't text you because it's to late in KS and I'll probably forget by tomorrow…just thinking about summer and all our memories together. I was remembering how we didn't have central air (which is crazy to think about) until we were older and how you, Andrew and I would sleep out in the living room at night because it was cooler. Tytus always wants me to lay Jedidiah next to him on his pillow before he goes to bed so he can give him a kiss and asks when can he sleep with him. :)

Also, when I hear the sound of a window unit, it seriously makes me think of summer and mom frying okra. 

I wonder what our kids memories will be?

love ya!

Happy Birthday Courtie…I wish I could put into words how special you are to me! You have been such a great gift from God in my life. I have learned so much from you and still do…I appreciate your grace and excitement for Tytus even when he is nutty and a little boy trying to learn how to play with girls! I love you greatly and thankful that God not only gave me a sister but also a friend…all those years of sharing a room has paid off :) 

Praying it was a special day for you today…

meghan

Since you have been driving out to Colorado and having your vacation, I have been thinking about all our funny memories and thought I would write them down. I keep wondering what kind of memories your girls are going to build on your vacation that they will laugh about some day…

Here are some of mine:
1. Before we would leave for CO we would tuck all our dolls into our beds so they would stay warm and  feel more loved since we were leaving them behind. I always felt bad for the ones that weren't "chosen" poor little dollies!
2. While traveling there we got to take turns sitting in the front behind mom and dads seat on the cooler…no seat belts…crazy that none of the back had seat belts either!
3. Coloring on the magnetic harry man
4. Mom made us that yummy trail mix and her reminding us not to pick out our favorites but to just take out some but why did she put raisens in it?
5. When we got in trouble and it deserved a spanking, how mom would get the fly swatter! what in the world! cracks me up for what a clean freak mom is…makes me wonder if this memory is correct?!
6. On our way back from CO, when the tire had a flat outside of that prison and we all were extremely quiet because dad wasn't to happy
7. When I was joking around and got that plastic cup stuck on my arm and inwardly freaked out

At the Cabin:
1. Going up and down the creek and you convincing us both there was a snake
2. Running from that sheep herders cabin and falling on the way to the jeep because "you saw a snake" I was sure it was chasing me by the way you were screaming…funny that my only memory was falling and seeing your back because you took off!
3. Riding horses with you and mom (your horse almost bucking you off and then it eating weeds and getting choked) the other part is mom retelling the story
4. Hiking behind all the cabins
5. Practicing driving the jeep…mom and dad were so patient to take us out all the time!
6. Trying to find a place to pull over when we met another jeep on the road
7. The whole packrat experience
8. Playing cards for hours and how Mammaw would teach us new games
9. How dad, mom, Mammaw and Popo would stay up later than us and play cards and just wanting to stay up also (lots of laughing, dad saying Mammaw was cheating, and how Popo could never pick up the cards off the table because he had no traction on his fingertips
10. Getting moccasins or a ring for a memory
11. Riding horses with Aimee and her horse tooting in the mountains
12. Your new curling iron + my tropical barbies hair + melted hair on the curling iron = a very mad sister…so sorry!
13. Standing for hours on the front porch waiting for a humming bird to land on our fingers
14. Playing dentist in the green chair
15. Surran wrapping the toilet, "Myrn, I'm going to need some help" and him running after us :)
16. Traveling with Popo in the backseat and his long legs falling on us when he fell asleep
17. Being excited to eat boxed meals and pepsi clear…the smell of breakfast in the cabin and being so cold until the sun finally made it over the mountain into the cabin…

I need to stop thinking about these because it's just now making me sad…

I have been praying that this trip to the mountains would hold great memories for you as a family but also for the girls to be sisters! 

love you,

Meghan

Nice that this is the best picture we could get…I'm not sure if this was before or after I was crying because  this was the last evening we got to spend together before heading back up to KC to fly out or not? I am so thankful that I can cry over leaving my family and not be happy to leave them. God has blessed me with a family I both like and love. I treasure and take comfort in the truth from Romans 8:38-39 that nothing can separate me from the love of God! 

I took this video while with Trinity so that I could have something to laugh at when I miss them. I love watching her run/prance! What a cute little girl she is :)

Miss you Court...

Still Playing Without Husbands…sounds bad but Travis had to stay in CA to work and Dave works out of town! This is our current reality. We are still taking care of all our "babies" without our men but at least they aren't in our heads anymore and in real life great dads. 

Happy cousins! Sweet Delaney was trying to hold Jedidiah when he was arching his back.

 A little photo shoot with the doll house people and the girls

 Ma with the kids while on her break from school. What a good grandma!

TV time which the kids love and maybe we do also so we can actually talk and sit

 Chuckie Cheese Time with Ma and they actually got eat there also

 Courtney, Trinity, and Jedidiah

 Delaney-8, Quincy-5, Trinity-2, Tytus-3, Ma-? and Jedidiah-3months

 What Trinity would do all day if she could

This is the best picture yet and just makes me laugh  

so, just a disclaimer- this is all new to us so not always the best looking

We love our sister time! We don't have to go anywhere but just play, play, play to have a good time…the kids God has blessed us with are a fun crew and a bit crazy at times. They may not always be smiling all the time but this is how we remember them…God's gifts to us.

 This is how our story began…When one day this lady met this fellow… Gary and Marcia Hughes were married December 21st, 1969. They had our older brother, Andrew in 1974, then along came Courtney in 1977 and Meghan (me) in 1980 which completed our Hughes family.

80s family photo. You know you have a picture like this if you grew up in the 80s, be honest.

We got to get our pictures taken over at the grocery store and we have another picture with our Dad. 

One of our trips to Colorado for our summer vacation at our Great Aunt's cabin. My mom just pointed out who had the most paint on their face, interesting.

This is how we slept many nights. We were always afraid someone was under the trundle bed so we would hold hands to fall asleep. No one could grab us if we were holding hands right? :) 

Dressing up in the 80s…cool, yes we are!

Our favorite outfits we got at Top Drawer that Delaney can wear now

The beginning of our cool years…my mom still has these dresses she informed us so we can wear them  again but I don't think I will (Meghan) since I just had a baby 3 months ago

Courtney is getting ready for her first year in college and I'm moving into my sophomore year in high school. This is the last time we will be able to go to the cabin before it's sold. We have many memories here.

Courtney brushing my teeth…my helping sister.

This is us as sisters but there are some good stories involving our brother but I'm not sure if he would call them good stories. I'm sure he didn't appreciate having two little sisters like us through puberty!