Long Overdue Visit

Last week our good friends James and Cara and their three girls came to our house for a visit. It was a long over due visit, that's for sure. We all became friends when we lived in Columbia SC. Once we both moved away we would at least see each other once a year, but this time it was almost 2 and 1/2 years later that we finally got to spend sometime together. The Reneau's were excited to have their friends coming our way for a few days. The house was full of girls, 2 six year olds, 2 four year olds and 1 two year old, plus the momma's, so Chris, James and Samson were completely out numbered this week. :) But they handled it like champs.

We had a fun filled week......

A couple of beach trips....that is a given and we all had a blast!

Katie and Anna working on a sand castle

Silly Bree posing with her PB and J sandwich as she giggles at herself for being silly.

Strike a pose girls!



Me and little Leah.....the last time I saw Cara and James, this little one was in Cara's belly. This was the first time I got to meet her. She was my buddy all week.

My little fighter

Lots of playing in the sand
Daddy and his girls

Me and Cara enjoying the beach the way we like it....sitting in our chairs. :)

The fam

Besides beach and pool time we did some other things during the week.

Movie Night...everyone in their PJ's with some popcorn ready to relax.

Cara and I took the bigger girls to see the Smurf Movie one afternoon, while James took Leah to the mall to play. The movie by the way was really cute. The girls really enjoyed it. After the movie we met up with Chris and had some dinner. Little photo shoot to pass the time while waiting on the food.

Katie and Becca...they said they had to sit together because they were BFF's. :)

Anna and Bree. Love this picture of them. Two sweet little girls.

We let the girls paint some pottery at the Turtle Factory. This is Katie's favorite place and she wanted to show Becca and Anna.

Bree and Anna concentrating hard to create their master piece.

Becca and Katie working hard.

The times that we would hang around the house and relax you could bet that you would find Bree and James playing headbanzs.

Snagged a self portrait of me and this cutie. I just fell in love with her this week.

Saturday was the last night that the Morgan's where here and it was also Chris' birthday, so we went out to eat for his bday. In order to not have to wait we decided to have two tables instead of one. We put all the big girls at one table right beside up. They thought they were hot stuff sitting all by themselves with no parents at the table. They did really well, and the adults and Leah actually had a nice time talking and eating.

Me and the birthday boy

After dinner we headed home for birthday cake. The girls wanted to make his cake instead of buying it. Katie, Bree, Becca and Anna all helped decorate it and as we were decorating they all thought they should put their Smurf figurines on the cake since the icing was Smurf blue. So Chris ended up with a Smurf cake for his birthday.

They were all so excited for Chris to see his cake that he had to sit with is back to me as I lite the candles and walked it over to him.

The girls helping daddy blow out his candles. We had 35 on their and they were melting fast.

As soon as the candles were out all the girls were reclaiming their smurf figurines. :) They had lent them out long enough. HA!

Enjoying the cake....especially Leah. She walked around all day saying "cake, cake". She wanted a piece so bad. She was one happy girl to get her cake. :)

Sunday Morning it was time for them to pack up and head home. I had to get one more photo of this sweet face before she left. Loving her yogurt.

The girls playing one last game before they all had to give hugs good bye. :(

I really can't express how much fun we had this week. I know my girls loved having friends here to play with. Since we moved here they made some friends but haven't had any real play dates. They had so much fun having girls their own age here to play with. Chris and I both loved catching up with Cara and James. They both have been great friends to us and we love hanging out with them. It was one of the best weeks we have had since we have moved here. Hopefully, this can be an annual thing and not be so long in between our visits. Thanks Cara and James for making the trek out to see us. We love you guys!