The Last Four Days

We are finally (for the most part anyway) settled into the new house. This past weekend was our first time to have overnight company....our good friends (may as well be family) Emily and Josh live about two and half hours away...they drove up with their kids on Friday night and stayed the weekend with us. We had a BLAST....the kids played together so well...matter of fact Brooke and their son Grayden decided they were married about half way through the visit and spent the rest of the time calling each other honey...it was rather amusing! Paige spent the weekend being Paige and sometimes they didn't want to play with her because she was being mean (imagine that!) but all in all they played well. Saturday Emily, her daughter and myself left all of the kids with the guys and went shopping for Christmas presents....(just for the record I could spend at least one full day in Tuesday Morning) and then we went and had lunch. It was nice to get away and believe it or not the house was still standing and not to terribly destroyed when we got home. Saturday night we stayed up so late that I actually started to fall asleep in my chair. Well I for one had a wonderful time having them here (always do!) and just love them so much! Sunday they had to hit the road to get back home...me and the girls got up and went to church then came home and Will took Brooke to a birthday party (I know I couldn't believe it either :-) and Paige took a nap so I had a little quite time all to myself....sometimes (okay...ALL the time when you are a mom) that is the best thing in the whole entire world! Then yesterday....my favorite thing of all time...Carissa came over and we painted during nap time...well technically the nap never really occurred...but anyway we still painted. Every once in a while we get together to oil paint and if we are being honest (sorry Carissa) neither one of us has any real talent...we are not artistic...but we LOVE it and we have so much fun just sitting at the kitchen table painting away. Our pictures always turn out good to us and we always have fun.... I suppose that is all that matters. I could not have asked or imagined a better weekend...and to think I don't even really like the weekends.