Becca & Preston's Visit

The big highlight this week was Becca and Preston's visit. We hadn't had a real visit with them since their wedding two years ago. It was so fun to see them, and see how happy and cute they are together. And it was fun to see them get to know my girls better and meet Lucy.

One of the fun things they did was set up a treasure hunt for Sami and Janie (& Lucy too but she isn't mobile enough to find the treasure so Sami and Janie found her treasure for her ☺). Becca made up clues, green ones for Sami and yellow ones for Janie, and then they helped them work through their clues to find the treasure. 

Sami and Janie thought this treasure hunt was so fun that they are still "playing" it, hiding notes and trying to find treasures. (And one of the clues was in the backpacks so I guess they thought they needed to wear their backpacks??)

Their treasure was a horse in a purse, as Janie calls it, and some paint coloring books. And a cute cow for Lucy, but I didn't take a picture of that. (I thought I was taking so many pictures, but as I downloaded them tonight I wished I had taken so many more! Next time...)

Janie's horse is named "Jessie," and Sami's has been a cast of characters from Strawberry Shortcake. 

 Becca is VERY talented musically. She played the piano and sang for us. She also showed Sami how to play a few basic songs on the piano. 

And Becca and Preston played a lot of Memory. I just sat with Lucy and watched. :)

And I have to say that my older girls were smitten with Preston, especially Janie. They hadn't been here for more than a few hours when Janie said "Preston, you can sit by me because I love you." She was always sitting by him or hugging him. It was so funny and I was relieved that Preston is such a great guy, otherwise I would have been very worried. :)  

It was a super fun visit. We are blessed to have them in our lives. The only bummer about their trip was that Jonathan was so sick. For most of their visit he was either working or falling asleep somewhere. But he felt better at the end of their visit and that was nice. Because Jonathan makes any party funner. And it was a party. We had cake (Preston had a birthday while he was here, the perfect excuse for chocolate cake!) and we laughed and had a great time. 

Thanks for spending your vacation with us Becca and Preston!