Other happenings (happy-nings) over the last week revolved around great friends. On Thursday, after Obama's speech, we spent the night at Amber and Jeff's new house. It was our first time seeing it or being there and we had a great time! The house is lovely and comfortable. The kids enjoyed checking out Adelaide's toys.
And she was a great hostess!
After the kids went to bed we spent a little time watching basketball and Amber fixed up a little knitting project I had bunged up. I love how Jeff's pretending not to notice as I take this picture.
We spent the next couple of nights with our favorite niece. She and Clara have matching pj's again...totally by chance.
Mom stayed with all the kids one night so we could take Rob out for a belated birthday celebration. There was much back and forth about which movie to see or whether to go bowling instead....we ended up just going out for Mexican, but that was muy bueno.
We all especially enjoyed it when the guys came out to sing to Rob and put the giant sombrero on his head. Rob LOVES this kind of stuff...can you tell?
After leaving Iowa City and having a couple of quiet nights at home we had some overnight visitors. This is our (brand new) friend Jason playing ball with his daughter Sidonie and Henry.
Here are Sido and Clara playing in the sand.
And here's Mariah, the mama of Sidonie and wife of Jason. Mariah and I were good friends in jr. high and high school and just recently reconnected through the magic of facebook. She insists that we saw each other in Iowa City once circa 1998, but she said Pete and I looked like we may have been involved in a serious discussion. If it really was 1998 it is highly possible that that was the case. Aside from that instance I'm pretty sure we hadn't seen each other since 1993, and maybe only corresponded once or twice during those first few years of college.
I've been so happy to be back in touch with Mariah and it was awesome to spend some time together with our families. Jason was a very cool guy and Sidonie is very bright and fun. My mom asked if it was awkward at first, having not seen each other for so long. But it wasn't at all! We didn't have a pause in the conversation all night long. The kids were excellent about going to bed easily for us and the weather was lovely, so we stayed on the porch late into the evening drinking a little wine and eventually testing out the cinnamon rolls that I made for the next morning.
We can't wait to go out to visit them in Idaho!!
(Clara says thanks for "Tayto". She loves him!)
And she was a great hostess!
After the kids went to bed we spent a little time watching basketball and Amber fixed up a little knitting project I had bunged up. I love how Jeff's pretending not to notice as I take this picture.
We spent the next couple of nights with our favorite niece. She and Clara have matching pj's again...totally by chance.
Mom stayed with all the kids one night so we could take Rob out for a belated birthday celebration. There was much back and forth about which movie to see or whether to go bowling instead....we ended up just going out for Mexican, but that was muy bueno.
We all especially enjoyed it when the guys came out to sing to Rob and put the giant sombrero on his head. Rob LOVES this kind of stuff...can you tell?
After leaving Iowa City and having a couple of quiet nights at home we had some overnight visitors. This is our (brand new) friend Jason playing ball with his daughter Sidonie and Henry.
Here are Sido and Clara playing in the sand.
And here's Mariah, the mama of Sidonie and wife of Jason. Mariah and I were good friends in jr. high and high school and just recently reconnected through the magic of facebook. She insists that we saw each other in Iowa City once circa 1998, but she said Pete and I looked like we may have been involved in a serious discussion. If it really was 1998 it is highly possible that that was the case. Aside from that instance I'm pretty sure we hadn't seen each other since 1993, and maybe only corresponded once or twice during those first few years of college.
I've been so happy to be back in touch with Mariah and it was awesome to spend some time together with our families. Jason was a very cool guy and Sidonie is very bright and fun. My mom asked if it was awkward at first, having not seen each other for so long. But it wasn't at all! We didn't have a pause in the conversation all night long. The kids were excellent about going to bed easily for us and the weather was lovely, so we stayed on the porch late into the evening drinking a little wine and eventually testing out the cinnamon rolls that I made for the next morning.
We can't wait to go out to visit them in Idaho!!
(Clara says thanks for "Tayto". She loves him!)
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