We have been busy, busy seeing friends and family lately. Last week we had two sweet friends from Russia here. Mr. Russia is actually a college friend of ours who has been in Russia as a missionary for about 6 years. A few years back he met a sweet girl, fell in love and married her one year ago this past April. Due to the slight distance between our families we had not gotten to meet this sweet girl until their visit last week, although we are most certainly Facebook Buddies.
It was a delightful time of catching up with and getting to know each other. The girls simply adored having friends over who actually spent the night! (That meant Mommy and Daddy slept in their room too!)
Over the weekend we headed to Daddy's family reunion. It was exceedingly hot so the kids really enjoyed swimming. Peanut is a fish, I tell you! She would have spent the entire time in the water instead of just 90% of the time. Unfortunately I do not have any pictures of our day because I may have forgotten my camera battery at home! Oops! (As a Mommy blogger I was devastated!) It was a 4 hour ride home and for 70% of the trip we heard in a sad little voice, "But I just wanted to stay and spend the night," from Peanut! Then a crazy lightening storm filled the sky and she buried her face in her pillow and fell asleep.
On Sunday we got to see our friends who are missionaries in the Solomon Islands. They just returned to the states this past week and are here for a few months. The Hubby's parents live very near to where we are now so we met up with them for the afternoon and evening. Our kids had a ball playing together on the farm that he grew up on. They climbed in and out of tractors, rode toy tractors, took Gator rides, and ate a superb supper....and to top it all off, sweet fellowship and catching up after a year apart!
Pumpkin now has Hand, Foot, Mouth again. Ugh! She has it worse than this past spring. So far Peanut doesn't have it so we are hoping she will skate through.
We have another good friend from California coming to see us for a couple days this week. We are also preparing for Peanut's 4th birthday which is just over a week away! I can not believe it. She is extremely excited. It has been so fun to see the excitement building in her and to know that she really gets that her birthday is coming.
Pumpkin is keeping us on our toes. This is what I found the other day upon walking into the kitchen.
She had climbed up on the chair, found the Cheerio box, opened it, decided to have a snack and dumped the entire contents (it was only half full) out on the table, floor and chair.
She has now figured out that if she gets her sister's stool she can get into more things. She goes to find the stool, carries it to the spot she wants, climbs it and "Waa-Laa" she can get into things she isn't supposed to get into! Smartie pants!!!!!
