Good Times with Great Friends

About two weeks ago we had a whirlwind of busy-ness! In an 8 day stretch, Rachel came to visit for two days, Alyssa came with her husband and two boys for five nights and a weekend full of family, friends and a baby shower, and then we finished up our busy week with a one day trip to College Station and back to visit Avery and Kirby and their kiddos. I rarely get to see my best girlfriends who each live between 1 and 5 hours away and in this 8 day stretch I got to see all three! Fun was had by all, but I sure was tired at the end of it!


Aunt Rachel's Visit
It started on a Tuesday, the morning after we returned from 5 days away for the 4th of July weekend!
Aunt Rachel came for some fun with Logan

A couple pics from Chuck E Cheese's

That night we left Logan with Jeff and had some girl time. We caught a movie and got some ice cream and it was so nice to just catch up with her! On day two we took Logan to the pool at the Y- and I forgot my camera! Logan loves seeing her and was very happy that she brought him her Lion King movie to borrow. We have watched it over 30 times in the last two weeks and now he's singing all the songs and quoting the characters- thanks Rachel for this new obsession! :-)



The Cartwright's Visit

Rachel left on that Wednesday afternoon and on that Friday night, Alyssa and Rick came into town with both of their boys and all that having two kids includes! It was a busy house for those five days, and not the quietest either, but I wouldn't have had it any other way! I just think it's so great that my friends and I have been able to share in the family growing process together and now our kids are growing little friendships of their own!

The first day Alyssa was here was the morning of my baby shower
It was so nice to have her here to meet my friends and share in this time with me. The shower was so wonderful... I cannot say enough about how much we love our church friends and family here in Conroe and how blessed we feel to be raising our boys with such wonderful, loving people! Everyone was so generous... little Ryan is already so loved!
Some pics from the rest of their visit...

Swimming in our backyard
Coloring time
We went one day to my mom's to swim
Alyssa and Jordan

A trip to the Children's Museum

Alyssa and Jacoby

Logan LOVED the baby... as usual.
A glance at what's ahead for us??

Jordan checking in on his brother

Logan singing to Jacoby
He enjoyed telling him "It's ok" whenever he would start to cry.


College Station and Back
IN ONE DAY!
After Alyssa was packed up and on the road, we did the same. We drove a little over an hour to stay in CS for 4 hours and turn around and drive home that night. So worth it though! Avery lives in San Antonio, which is a good 3+ hours from our house, so when she comes to CS to visit her sister, we like to take advantage!

We took the kids to a splash pad park to play
Walking hand in hand...
Logan, Asher and Brynn
...too precious!
Fun in the water

Logan and Asher loved the bucket that would fill up and then dump on you. Logan would stand so patiently and wait over and over and over again!
Brynn getting herself a drink... yummy!
Camdyn and McKlayne
The girls taking a snack break
McKlayne, Brynn and Camdyn
Brynn had turned 3 on July 5th and we brought our gift with us to give her in person. Logan was very proud to have something to give her and has not yet learned to keep a secret. He kept saying, "Brynn, we got you Madagascar! You want to open your Madagascar?" I think he was more excited about getting to watch it once she opened it! Fun times!

Not the best picture of me, but it had been a long day... no, a long week!

We wrapped up our College Station visit by meeting Aunt Kelley (Jeff's sister) for some ice cream. Not knowing how our day would go, this was a last minute addition, but Logan was very excited to see her and I'm glad we worked it out!

Silly ice cream faces

Sharing

Special times...

We truly are blessed to have such great friends in our lives! Thanks so much to Kirby for letting us crash in on your time with Avery and for the delicious homemade pizza dinner- delicious!

We are now approaching 36 weeks into the pregnancy! Can't believe in just one month our baby will be in our arms! Due date is exactly one month from today!