When a Wednesday Feels Like the Weekend: BFFs Come to Town

      Well, our friends from college who we got to go visit in March came to stay with us for two nights while embarking on a 3 week trip.  Steph just graduated from medical school and had a baby - yes, she is super woman, and I am amazingly proud of her accomplishments!  Their new baby, Isaiah John Claus is John's little namesake, so we were thrilled to meet him.  We had a great time catching up and hanging out - friendships like this are such a blessing.

We went to the pool.

The girls (Corrie and Lily) made treats together.  (I learned that if you are going to try to dip Oreos in candy coating, it is probably better not to use Double Stuffed, because they fall off of the sticks.  This did not deter us from eating any of them.)



We went to the Wonder Place here in the Rock - a great place with tons of air-conditioning that is necessary if you are living in the heat-dome that is middle America right now.  Oh, and it has great stuff to do as well.



(The water table was a giant hit!)

We had over some more JBU friends that live in Little Rock, who have also been blessed with many little friends.  Here are most of them watching Veggie Tales.



We got to talk and talk and talk, which is great when you have shared so much of life and so many experiences.  It is crazy when you look around and realize that you have doubled the number of people, and that you never could have imagined how good it could be (and how hard it could be at the same time).  We actually talked about what it would have been like if 11 years ago someone would have given us all a glimpse of our future.  What would we have thought?  What I do know now is that we are blessed beyond measure, and I am thankful for the Claus family to be part of this journey together.

Embracing my friends with