THE COLLINS FAMILY: Fun with friends and their families!!!

Since so many of my closest friends from college all have kids now, and we are not all in the same town, we don't get a chance to all get together as much as we would like. So, my friend Shannon and I decided to invite them to Nashville for a family get together and cookout at our house! Although I have seen my friends throughout this past year at showers, girls weekends, and other events...it had been a year since we had ALL been together with the husbands and kids at the same time! (Minus a few people that could not make it- we missed you guys!) It was SO great to be able to do that, and it was especially neat to see how much all the kids had grown and to watch them play and interact together. They all got along really well, and there were no major fights or meltdowns, which made for a great day and night! My friend Jennifer was nice enough to let us borrow her big inflatable bouncy house for the kids to play on outside. It was the perfect thing for them to do, and by the end of the night we had 5 little worn out and sweaty boys in the bathtub all at once (see picture below). My friends Rachael and Anne (and their families) stayed at our house, so we even managed to get in some "adult hang out time" after the kids went to bed! It was a great weekend!! I treasure these friends so much, and I am so happy to say that we are all still so close after all of these years! I hope we can continue the tradition of a family get together throughout the upcoming years! Here are some pictures from the get together. By the way- I promise there were husbands there, we just didn't think to get a picture of them- OOPS!)

All the girls with our kids- From left- Emily and Elizabeth, Shelly and Xander, Anne and Colton, Shannon, Calvin and Aiden, Stacey and Parker, Rachael and Evan