So a few weekends ago we had the opportunity to go stay at my brother Scott’s house for the weekend so that Amy (Scott’s wife) could go meet Scott and have a ski weekend. We babysat their 3 children- Juliana, Jonathan and David. We stayed from Thursday until Tuesday night. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot too. We went out for Pizza on Friday and had soccer games on Saturday. Jonathan had a birthday party on Saturday night so we rented a movie and stayed in with Juliana and David. Sunday we went to church and stayed around the house. Monday night we met Travis and Tara Hartjen and their Kiddos for dinner at Chick-fil-a. It was fun and the kids played. We did have an issue arise with one of the kids at chick-fil-a but it was resolved pretty quickly. Tuesday the kids and Emily gave the dogs baths. Overall it was a lot of fun and we were really glad to see Scott and Amy on Tuesday night. They had a great time and skied three days.

Then, two weekends ago we went down to Houston to visit Tommy, DeAnne and Stephanie. Their new house is looking great and it was really nice to spend some quality time with them. We arrived Friday night at about 8 and went out to eat at a Chinese Bistro near by (really Yummy). Saturday we woke up and Tommy made us all breakfast. We then ran some errands and stopped by Billy and Jamie's house to see William Riley. He is so tiny. He is beautiful and we had a great time visiting and holding the precious new baby. We then headed home and fixed dinner. Tommy worked on the car and put in a new radiator for us. Praise God. We got up Sunday and went to church and had lunch. We then bummed around and headed back up to Dallas later that evening. We have had an eventful couple of weekends and thought we would post a blog and provide an update.

Here are some pictures of the kids and the dogs Quinn and Tozer hanging out:

-Shawn