Day 19

Today was Sam's day. He is off of work every other Wednesday so we have been taking advantage of those day's. Our friend Renee and her daughter Allie stayed an extra day with us so they came to hang out at Papaw Sam's as well.


The highlight of the day was the swing on the porch. The swing is actually Cousin Emory's, but our babies loved it! I wish we had a place to hang a swing at our house, but our silly association doesn't allow anything to 'hang' in our yard or on our porch. It's really the most irritating rule ever--and even more irritating now that i know how much the babies enjoyed it.

Allie really liked the dog, Chelsea--she has a few dogs of her own and one of them is HUGE (giant schnauzer/english mastiff mix) so she wasn't afraid of Chelsea at all. I loved this pic of the two of them!Aunt Kelly and Cousin Madison came to hang out after Madison got out of school--it was her last day of school and we are very proud of our 3rd grade graduate! We all went to dinner together that night at Kabuko. My friend Megan from college and her husband Thomas also came met us, so we had a whole table to ourselves. Mike and I have the opportunity to eat lots of Asian food, but the Japanese steakhouse's in Hawaii are not like the ones here. I am pretty certain the ones here are less authentic than what's in HI, but still we like what we like and WE LOVE white sauce so we were excited to go to Kabukos. It was also a good place to take the babies because with so much going on they had plenty to watch and keep them busy.

Here is Nora and Aunite Megan watching the big fire on the table jumping laps...now Nora is eyeing Papaw Sam's food!
Me and Meggo..i love her!

Right when we were putting the babies down for bed, Nanny Katie came to visit. She caught Holden in a REALLY HAPPY moment...they were cute!

After the babies were in bed, Mike went to go play video games with Katie's husband and dad, and Katie and I hung out doing our usual silliness...it was good to just be Jessi for a little while...instead of Mom (even though i love being mommy more than anything!) and it was really good to spend some time with such a good friend--although we are obviously getting older because we both suffered the next day as a consequence of our late night excursions!