Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Fun with Friends

The last 3 days Samuel and I were blessed enough to spend with two of my best friends (Mary & Dolly) and their families. We arrived on Monday and Dolly's sister Dawn was kind enough to let all of us stay at her beautiful home - she's a great hostess! We could not wait to let all of our kids play with each other! It's very surreal to watch the next generation in action and think back to when we were just "kids" in college. Wow - time flies. We definitely soaked in our time together. On Monday we had dinner out and met up with our friend, Angela, for Mexican. Afterwards we spent some time with members of Roscoe & Mary's church (NorthStar) and then stayed up until 2a.m. catching up. Tuesday we had a great time getting out for lunch and a little pampering thanks to Mary's mom who stayed home with the kiddos and let us get mani/pedi's together. It's such a gift to have lifelong friends who you can walk away from feeling refreshed and encouraged. Even more important, the influence these Godly women have on Samuel's life - priceless. I'm one thankful girl!
This picture (below) was taken within the first 5 minutes Mary arrived with the girls. Looks like someone is really interested in the cute blond...I'll let you know how these two "made out" in another picture. Beautiful Dolly with Annabelle and Michael. This little boy is adorable and SO SWEET I could eat him. Annabelle was such a good example to the younger kids - someone raised her right (and could she be more gorgeous?)!

This was taken on Tuesday night (Dawn, Kim, Dolly, Me, Angela (taking the pic) and Mary). We had to catch the Bachelorette Premiere!


So, these two continued to play together so well - they were adorable.

Time to go in for the kiss!!



These two are going to best buddies....

Our pampered feet....


Our pampered nails....





What a great trip!!

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Awwwwwww, this looks so fun. It refreshes ME to see this post. I'm so glad ya'll had fun. I know you missed Teece. All of the kids are adorable! Whoa, Dawnie, way to be the hostess w/ the mostess!

Dolly said...

Wow Amy! I can't believe you have a post up already. I was so tired after the last three full days. It was so fun having you all here again. I loved seeing the kids play together and Samuel is such a sweetheart! I love the pictures of him and Dolly Jane!

Can't wait to see you all again in 2 weeks!

the mathisons said...

Seeing you girls make me smile! And all of you have the cutest babes!

Donna said...

I'm so glad y'all had that time to be together and just have fun! How cute to see your kids playing together:)

Amy said...

Hi Hannah! We DID miss Teecy & Kirsten for sure!
Dolly - Thanks for all you did. Michael is such a doll!
Kelli - YOU have the cutest kiddos too!!! Wish I could see them in person.
Donna - It would have been fun to have you there too!

The Jones' said...

Looks like you girls had a fun time together! The kiddos are all growing up so fast, cute to see them playing together.

Teecy said...

cuteness.