Titus meets his new friend Wyatt

You may remember our friends, The Grill's, from this post about their last visit to VA this spring.  They came out again last month for another modular class, and brought with them their newest little one, Wyatt Solomon.  He was born just 5 days before Titus.  It was so fun to see them together...even if they wouldn't look at each other :)



This time they stayed in a hotel, which was probably a good idea since my parents were staying with us, and the chaos of 6 kids 4 and under, though tons of fun, was a bit much after a few hours.



It was so nice to catch up with Jenny, share birth stories, share newborn tips, talk about sleep (or lack of sleep to be more accurate) and just be mamas together. I miss her!  She is so much braver than I to make the 15+ hr road trip out here with a 4 week old! And in true Jenny fashion, she did it with a smile and made it sound so easy.



We took an afternoon to hit up our new favorite place - The Frozen Yogurt bar! Yum! Where else can you get yellow cake batter flavored frozen yogurt and double chocolate frozen yogurt topped with blueberries, strawberries, brownies, pretzels, captain crunch, butterfinger, sprinkles and jelly beans? (Boden said it was delicious by the way)

An attempt at a shot of both families...another challenge with 6 kids 4 and under.

Thanks for coming to visit, Grills!  We love you and miss you...come back soon!

Our friend Caleb came over to play the other day...it was a beautiful day, so we just spent the whole morning outside...

snacking

loading

hauling

swinging

digging

"cooking"

flying

sun-bathing (actually, I think he said he was making a "dirt angel")

more snacking

running

and just hanging out with friends

Hope you are enjoying spring too!!!

Our friends from St Louis, Adam & Jenny came to stay with us at the beginning of March for a week. Adam is a student at Regent and had a week long modular class here, so Jenny and the kids came along and we spent the week wrangling kids and being pregnant together.  :) We had a great time playing outside, checking out a new park, and playing on the beach (although we didn't stay long - it was super windy!)  Boden and Addie are just about 6 months apart in age and while they love to play together, they also fight like siblings.  It made for a fun, but challenging week.

apparently this slide was really fast - the kids would come down in and go flying into the sand...they loved it.

check out the fun playground on the beach (and the adorable pregnant Jenny)

we found another huge, fun playground.  Adam met us there after class and brought yummy, sugary drinks for the kids...Claire was in heaven

Isn't Thatcher just adorable? Smiling and laughing at his daddy

playing nicely....as long as they each had an equal amount of the same blocks!

we even did a little "school"

and of course - the new additions coming soon to both families! We are both having little boys due just 1 week apart!