Ever since the recent fifth season of Sister Wives, fans have worried that first wife Meri may be leaving the family behind, but she appears to be squashing those rumors now with a new photo from her Twitter account.

Meri Hints Distance From The Family?

After posting a tweet on October 4 that seemed to hint she wasn't spending time with her large family, fans became concerned about why she hadn't seen certain members of the family in some time.

"Looking at my gift from Solomon makes me miss the little guy!" she wrote at the time, which caused fans to wonder why she hadn't seen the youngest Brown child (Kody's son with Robyn), since he only lived next door.

Meri Introduces 18th Brown Child?

But now, she appears to be happily reunited with the family-and all 17 of the Brown kids-after posting a photo of all the children together in the kitchen of one of the family's houses over the weekend.

"Thanks to homecoming & birthday weekend we have the WHOLE family together! Rare with 5 kids away at college!" she captioned the picture.

The whole family had reunited to celebrate Robyn's birthday, which fell on October 9, and was the first time they had all reportedly been together in some time.  Logan (Kody's oldest son with Janelle), Aspyn (Kody's oldest daughter with Christine) and Mykelti (Kody's second oldest daughter with Christine) have all been at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, while Mariah (Kody's only child with Meri) and Madison (Kody's oldest daughter with Janelle) both returned to Utah to attend college at Westminster College and Utah State University.

In addition to five of the 17 kids being away from home, Meri has been spending a fair amount of time away as well, often posting about various trips with friends to other states since the show wrapped, meaning this has been the first time the whole family has been together in months.

A sixth season of Sister Wives is expected to airs in 2015.

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