The Hatton Family

Jed's sister, Missy, her husband Ben and their three kids, Judah, Gianna, and Tiernan, visited us last week.  Ben and Missy are Missionaries with New Tribes Mission up at the bible school in Jackson.  It's Christmas break at the school so they decided to take advantage and come to Florida.  Their kids and our kids are about the same age so it was fun to watch, Evan, Judah and Gianna play together.    After the kids went to bed at night we had sometime to catch up with Ben and Missy.  It was interesting to hear about what they're doing around the school and at church.  We also kept pretty busy during the day, Missy, Joy and I were able to get away one afternoon to go shopping, we went to the park with the kids one day, the adults got away one evening for dessert at the Cheesecake Factory (yummy!!), we went to New Smyrna beach then rushed home to have a party with some friends and went to Sea World for an entire day (something I NEVER thought we'd do with the kids all being so young).  They headed home today and we'll miss them a lot.  We cant wait for the next time we can all get together!

 The Hatton family.

 The cousins.

 Evan and Aunt Missy.

 Tiernan and his Uncle Jed. 

 Judah and Evan openned Christmas presents.  Thanks Uncle Ben and Aunt Missy for the doctor's set.

 Joy and Gianna.

 Uncle Jay and Tiernan bonding.

 At the beach!

 Gianna before she got sand and salt in her eyes.      And after. 

 Judah had a blast!  He loved the waves.    He and Evan ran in and out of the water all afternoon.

 Close ups of Seth and Evan.

 Tiernan and daddy testing the water, it was a little cold for Tiernan. 

 Heading home from the beach, exhausted. 

 Some friends at our little get together after the beach.

 The park.

 Seth and Tiernan, Seth is actually a whole month older than Tiernan but he weighs a good 4 or 5 lbs less than him.  My kids are tiny. 

 Aunt Missy giving Evan an underdog.  He loved it! 

 Gianna doing her own thing.

Judah, giving Seth a little push. 

Well this post is getting super long and I still have TONS more photos to put up so I'll do more later.  We have some cool ones of Sea World so check back tomorrow.  Have a great day everyone!!