Category: Friends (Page 2 of 6)

We had surprise visitors on Tuesday this week:  The Chilson Family!

(yes, those are Xavi’s feet… hehe!)

They came down to pick up a freezer we had in our garage and we were able to spend a couple hours visiting and letting the kids play.  It was so wonderful to see everyone.  I especially enjoyed seeing Baby Sammi since she’s 8 months older than Maddie.  It’s so fun to see what Maddie will be able to do in just a few months (and how much more active she’s going to be… bring out the gates and cupboard locks!).  Sammi thought Maddie was quite interesting lying in the pack-n-play.

I love that we can just have visitors over on a Tuesday morning!  My life is grand!

Well, we had a wonderful time visiting Shannon yesterday.  And it wasn’t as chaotic as I thought it would be.  Maddie slept most of the time, and Shannon’s little Sam had a 4 hour nap in the afternoon, which meant it was really just like having the 4 kids again.

They have a couple big fruit trees in their yard (pear and apple) so we spent a little time cleaning up a ton of fruit that had been chewed on by a rouge squirrel and tossed half-haphazardly to the ground fallen off.  And since the area was fruit free, Shannon jumped on the opportunity to mow it quick.  That’s true friendship, folks.  Picking up rotten fruit and mowing the lawn.  I love it.  No, seriously, I do love it.  🙂

We filled two bags worth of fruit. That bag is FILLED–It actually ripped as I was carrying it… That’s my little toy shovel to help pick up the really rotten fruit.  I’m a bit of a pansy apparently.  I don’t like the feeling of my fingers sinking into soft rotting fruit.  Haha!   (Sorry the picture it blurry. Chloe took it)

Shannon took some amazing pictures while we were there.  She posted them on Facebook too, so you might have already seen them, but they are just too cute not to post again.  I’ll post the complete picture of the 6 kids together later.  That one deserves its own post.  🙂

Last week, Friday, we had a surprise visit from the Chilson kids!  They actually ended up coming on Thursday night so the kids and Shannon could sleep here–she had an early appointment in the cities on Friday– and since I was free I said it was fine to leave the kids with me.  🙂  We had a fun morning.  Xavi helped walk Chloe to the bus stop with me.  He was very excited to see the bus and say “Hello!” to the bus driver.  Then the rest of the morning the kids play and played and played.  It was beautiful outside for the early morning so they ran around outside and played on the playset and drew with chalk and even blew bubbles.  Mid morning we enjoyed a snack and they really wanted to eat it outside on the playset picnic table–which was so adorable–until it started to rain and then they came running back inside.

I discovered I’m really out of practice with babies, though!  I felt really awkward remembering how to hold her and then feed & burp her.  I always feel like I’m going to “break” little babies (which is know is not true, since they are super durable, but it’s a mental thing).  Good think I know that it will all come back to me as soon as I bring our newest one home in a couple of months.  I remember that with Josiah.  It just all comes right back.   Little Sammi was a delightful baby–I just love those chubby cheekers!  She did smile a lot, but I wasn’t able to get her to smile at me when I was holding the camera…

It was a busy morning going from normally only having Josiah home with me to having 4 kids here, but everyone seemed to have a good time.  Plus I got to spend some time chatting with Shannon on Thursday night when I was done teaching, so that was delightful.

It’s crazy to think that in just a couple of months we will both have 3 kids.  That’s SIX kids when we get together!  And I find it so incredibly amusing that after having 6 kids between the two of us, that we have never really overlapped much being pregnant.  There have been slight overlaps, but not really too much.  I think that’s so funny!  I think God knew we would stay better friends if we weren’t both pregnant and emotional at the same time!  😉

Our get-together on Saturday was delightful–but alas, I was having too much fun to actually take many pictures!  Trust me when I say there was: scrumptious food (I even managed to make a few of those pinterest recipes!), grown up guys were down in the yard playing football with the kids over the kids, pumpkin carving, eating deep fat fried foods (we never said this was a healthy party!), a walk down to the fun hay bales and lots of laughter.  It was a fabulous way to sped our Saturday afternoon!