Spathes Clan Weekend

Hello everyone!! I have to take the time to write and update everyone to all of the fun we got to have this weekend. We were really blessed to have everyone home for our traditional weekend at the Internatiional Street Faire, we have been going to this faire for the past 20 years! Just to get everyone on the same page - like you don't know already but Ashleigh and Chris are going to have their first baby in January and although we don't offically know the sex yet I believe it is a boy! Lucas made it home from Iraq finally after being hung up there for an additional 2 weeks so it made his being able to join us for the weekend extra special. The fun for me is the fact that when you get all of these boys together again they are immediately 10,12 and 14! I am alway amazed how Ashleigh survived having 3 brothers and stunned by how well she handles them to this day. Lucas brought Dani down with him and we were all happy to get to visit and get to know her better, she is a joy to be around and does amazingly well with our large, loud family! I mentioned to Mark that there is not a chance that we can downsize - with the family growing and getting bigger we need all the room we have. I am going to attach some pictures (I hope I can make it work!) You will see a girl with Matt - that is Colleen who Mark Thomas calls Sally, she is a mutant - one eye is blue and the other is brown!! All in all we had a great weekend and have some great memories to hold us over till the boo b que!!