Accomplishments

My lack of accomplishment: always being behind on my blogging and always seeming to forget to take pictures when we have visitors...I am just soaking in every moment and then I am sad when they go and I have no great captured moments!
Addellyn and Coleson: These two woke up, and quietly read books together (it even seemed like they enjoyed it). It was a wonderful morning! (notice the boots, ha)

Makinzie: finished spring soccer! And, sadly, had to tell a few more friends good-bye as they move on in life, like Lauren (and the super cute blond boy behind them, whom I LOVE).

Poor girl seems to keep losing good friends faster than she can find new ones...

On a happier note: she is VERY into fashion...what do you think of the shirt/belt/skirt combo and the creative hair piece? She designs it all herself!

When company comes...

We LOVE them and smother them until it's time for them to go home WAY too quickly. The week FLEW by! We had a wonderful, relaxing time: shopping with mom, not having to cook (thanks to dad!), walking through and soaking up the beauty all around us, trying to catch up on a year's worth of conversation, enjoying convenient babysitters for my "all too frequent" trips to the Dr, and just being in our home TOGETHER.
It was SOOO good to see them again. (It's been hard going from seeing them EVERYday, in the same home, to not seeing them for an entire year! Really, really hard.)

Papa, Tank and Ooper jumping from the cement to the grass! You should see our boy jump, HAha!

We spent our last day at the park riding the brand new bike Kinzie picked out and celebrating Nana's birthday (a few weeks early).

The kids LOVED spending quality "reading" time with Nana.

We took a hike to the lake...

Every day that they were here we went on some type of "bAbenture!" according to Coleson. (adventure)

...and then Ty ran back to the car while we played on the playground and waited for him to come pick us up. I guess 1.5 miles was about all the kids could take, ok, and all my "gimpy" body could take, but I like to blame the kids.

Enjoyed the GREAT outdoors

The weather was wonderful. It is so beautiful here!

We did a lot of walking...(we walked ALL over the place throughout the week).

And "ooing"...

And apparently a whole lot of pointing! It was so much fun to walk through the "Old" part of town on an overcast Spring morning.

a LONG awaited arrival!

It was a long day trip to Raleigh...to visit the temple one at a time and then to get our favorite Nana and Papa from the airport.

Good thing the airport had a fun little park to run around in and listen to the control tower. There was a lot of energy to release before the long ride home.

But what we really couldn't figure out is why it was over 90 degrees and 80% humidity in the middle of MAY?!? Oh well, welcome to the South!