Friends

 We busted this guy out of school yesterday. Its always fun to send him off to school and then go surprise him and pick him up early. 

 Because this amazing couple came to visit. A few weeks ago Kaitlin called and said she was going to be at a conference a few hours away from us and asked if we were doing anything this week since they wanted to come visit.  Of course we said yes.  We had only met Aaron at the wedding so it was great to get to spend a few days with him and get to know him more.  And safe to say we like him a lot. 

  

A beach day in October? Don't mind if we do. Kaitlin and Aaron work for a ministry in upstate New York. we are hoping to go visit and show our kids what winter can really be like. But for now I will take these beautiful warm fall days. 

Kaitlin is one of the most encouraging people to be around.  Its always so good to spend time together and catch up on each others lives.  We go months and months without talking and years without seeing each other but she's one of those friends where you get together and it seems like just a few weeks have passed since we've seen each other.  And we really like Aaron.  It was one of those visits from friends that is really encouraging and very relaxing. We've had some crazy weeks lately complete with the kids and I getting sick even up to the day they came but this visit was just what we needed. Gods perfect timing. Thank you so much Kaitlin and Aaron for coming. 

We spent the afternoon at the beach and then went to climb the Cape henry lighthouse. Colin was so excited because when he was 3 we went to the lighthouse and he was too short to climb and he's remembered that ever since. We then went down to the beach next to the lighthouse and watched dolphins swim by really close. It was amazing. We saw dozens and dozens of them. Some were jumping. Just beautiful to watch. We paid a lot of money once for a dolphin cruise and barely saw any. Now we know where to go. 

The visit was too short.  We all miss them already.