Visiting Home: Fun with Friends!

After a week with my family in VA, we arrived in Dallas late on a Thursday night and spent the next day hanging out with Dad and Mom Gipson, Susie, Lucy, our new brother-in-law, Sam (more on that in the next post!) and Matt's sweet grandparents.

Then we departed Dallas early on Saturday and made our way down to Houston to spend 3 fun days with all of our friends from home that we've missed so much over the last year. We all gathered at one couple's house and as soon as everyone arrived I was relieved to find that things felt completely normal! I was worried that it would feel like we'd missed so much in the course of a year, but thankfully it felt as though we had never left!

One thing (or several little things I should say) changed since we left...there are tons of babies in our group now! So unfortunately, I did a TERRIBLE job documenting our weekend with friends b/c I was WAY too distracted by all of the extreme baby/toddler cuteness I was surrounded by to remember to take pictures :(

I did mange to take just a few though!

Keith and Sophie hosted a 4th of July cookout at their house. Matt, Nathan and Keith decided to do a little "extreme slip n' sliding."

Extreme slip n' sliding involved 3 grown men diving on the mat within seconds of each other and rolling out of the way quickly :)

And now...the reason that I forgot to take any pictures of us with our friends...

Precious little C...

Sweet little B...

...and adorable little R

See? Would you be taking pictures of yourself with friends when all these CUTE kiddos were around? And...I apologize to the babies/kids that aren't on here. Some of them moved too quickly and I didn't get a chance to snap their picture!

Thanks to all of our friends from back home for taking so much time out of their weekends to spend with us. We had a blast and can't wait to move home and hangout much more often again! :)