I long for home a lot, and wish I got there more! So this trip was one I was so excited about and totally ready for!
It was a full weekend of birthdays, dedications, visits with friends and time with family! I want Lucy to know and love her cousins, aunts, uncles and Oma and Opa... so when she gets to spend time there it does my heart good! She always really enjoys herself and I can see that adoration for this other side of her family growing!
JOY
So, here's what our long weekend away looked like!
Opa took time to teach Lucy to catch and throw... so all weekend her phrase was
"I catch the ball!"
We got to take part in the Harding family Saturday tradition of Pancakes.
That was definitely a win!!
My dad, brother-in-law and brother are involved in Upward basketball at my parent's church. Their boys play and my dad and Ben coach.
I finally got to experience the wonder of it on Saturday.
I finally got to experience the wonder of it on Saturday.
No more jealous creeping from the web, I get to experience the joy up close and personal!
My dad is really into the game... I mean he was pretty much playing it he was on the court so much.
haha. He insists it's allowed! :)
He was a big basketball player throughout his life and so I love to see him get to be a part of it again!
He was a big basketball player throughout his life and so I love to see him get to be a part of it again!
Meanwhile on the sidelines...
The girls were straight chillin'.
After the game we headed to Matt and Renee's for a wonderful birthday celebration for both sweet Baby Heidi who turned 1
And sweet Matthias who turned 3!
The kids for some reason love games like "General says" which is basically just taking orders from some bossy adult.
Which Matt directs of course...
Which Matt directs of course...
We used to play a version of this as kids called "Miss Polly Frog" in which my sister, aka: Miss Polly Frog, verbally and physically abused us at our permission.
Kids are strange.
Heidi had an enthusiastic first-birthday moment of enjoying that first yummy cup cake!
Sunday we got to take part in Heidi's dedication.
It was a great Sunday Morning!
A nice thing about staying into Monday is I get to experience the home-school world for Marji and her boys. She is so good and I am so impressed and inspired!!
She even let me teach a mini Spanish lesson for the boys.
We learned some things to be thankful for...
Then learned to sing and move to a song in Spanish about being thankful for all that God has given us!
The weekend also included a great visit with a dear friend... in which we partook of yummy Tapas and delicious ice cream mixed with lots of laughs and conversation.
The weather this weekend was just... perfection!
Did you get to experience that too?
Oh my word... 50 and 60 degrees in February has me thinking Spring big time... the fact that it's getting cold again this week is just NOT okay!
Ima need Spring to get a move on.
Stat.
But we enjoyed it while we had it!
Spent time playing outside
Until the mud swallowed us whole and we went inside to save ourselves!
Lucy begged to go on the swings
all.weekend.
Like.. constantly.
But the mud pit that stood between the house and the swings was not surmountable!
So... a wagon ride around the block would have to suffice!
It wasn't ALL play this weekend. I had some work to do...
I spent some time with Matt at Knobs N' Knockers picking out all of our hardware for the house!
One more thing to check off that list!
I'll update about that and the house in the near future!
We missed Daddy lots, but it was a sweet weekend with family and friends! Lucy really seemed to bond with her cousins and was just elated to be playing with them all day!!
Tengo más y más y más para agradecer!
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