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Fun Visits

My fabulous friend, Lindsay, came into town and stopped by for a visit....SOOOO great to see you, Sport! I love how we are the exact same color :)

One of Shane's counseling professors from seminary, Dr. Coffield, came to Mobile a couple of weekends ago and did a marriage conference for families that had special needs children. The conference was AMAZING. Dr. Coffield also spoke at Sunday school at Grace as well as preached a sermon on marriage. It was awesome.

Dr. Coffield has definitely been one of the most influential people in both mine and Shane's life. He is an amazing counselor, mentor and friend to us both. We were SO very thankful he was able to come do the conference and visit with us. It was super refreshing.

One of Shane's best buds, Justin, came into town and stayed with us a couple of nights. It's always fabulous to see him and seeing him makes us miss his wife and kids and all of our other friends that we used to work with that we haven't seen in ages :( We need to plan a big fat reunion....SOON!

My cousin, Michaela, plays on a travel softball team and they happened to have a tourney over in Daphne last weekend so Shane and I (without the girls...thanks to Gigi and HayHay who watched them for us) went over and got to see her play. Isn't she adorable!??! She is an incredible softball player and she is only in the 7th grade!! That's nuts!

Our friends, the Nelsons, along with their adorable twins came to visit this week. I can't believe how big their twinsies have gotten...it's crazy! It was SOOOO wonderful seeing you guys and hanging out. We miss ya'll!!

They stayed at some friends' apartment while they were in town and the complex had a sweet pool....which we gladly checked out :)

Sweet Abigail...

Aiden....total cuteness!

The girls LOOOOOOVED the pool....

First Swim of the Season

Our friends, Zach and Ellen, invited us over to go swimming a couple of weeks ago. The girls have been asking to go swimming for weeks now, so they were CRAZY excited!

Hilarious.

Got to love when the daddy is there to get in the water so the momma doesn't have to :)

The water was still a bit chilly at this point....

Our brave little chicas :)

Thanks to the Thompson's! We had a blast!

The Cremeen's come to town! YAY!

My bestest (I know that's not really a word...but I use it regularly :) friend came to town with her hubby and little man. I had not seen Kari in 18 months. That is unacceptable!! We can never let that happen again. I also had not yet met their new little boy who was already 7 months old!!! WHAT?!?? We had a fantastic time visiting with them and the girls LOVED having a real live baby staying at our house :)

Meet baby Liam...i.e. Kari's look-a-like! PRECIOUSNESS!

The girls were obsessed!

Liam with his daddy.... cuteness

Let's see how many bodies we can squish into our TINY bathroom at one time to watch Liam get a bath :)

Awwwww....We love you guys and miss you so much!!

I love him!

The girls were in love with him too...

Come back soon!!!!

Bye-Bye Party at Mom's Day Out (tear....tear)

The girls had their last day at mom's day out couple of weeks ago. I was in mourning the whole last week :) haha. They had a farewell party which included LOTS of sugar (as usual). Their teachers, Mrs. Tracy and Mrs. Hope, were amazing this year. They were especially great b/c they were so incredibly patient with the girls as they would go through some pretty crazy stages of acting out while they were there. I mean, there were days when I thought that one, if not both, of them was going to get kicked out....but thankfully we made it to the end!! The girls learned so much this year and it was awesome to have a few hours a week so I could run errands...especially going to the grocery store...by myself :)

Singing some songs before the party....

At least we went out with a bang this year....2 smiley faces!! Whoohoo!!

Party Time!

Ice cream topped M&M's, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream. Awesome sugar high right before nap time :)

Some of their classmates....

We'll miss you Mrs. Tracy!!

We love you, Mrs. Hope! Mrs. Hope is actually going to be one of the 3-year-old teachers next year so the girls will get to spend a lot of time with her again :)

New Babies!!

The Alford's recently welcomed their new little man, Noah, into the world. He is precious! Congrats you guys! The girls were just a TINY bit pumped to get to see, touch, and hold a REAL live baby :)