Our visit with the Blackburns!

We visited with some wonderful friends on Saturday! Bernadette, Brandon, & Sammy. We’ve been lucky enough to get to see them two times in the last month! 

The kids enjoyed playing in Sam's little pool and the sprinkler for a while!

Sam was quite excited to “swim” while my kids wanted to make sure their towels were laid out first!

Daniel was in charge of taking pictures at first….this was the best shot at getting all 3 of them to look at the camera!

Fun in the silly sprinkler!

More fun!

Apparently the other sprinkler wasn’t as fun as it looked so they got out a normal lawn sprinkler.

So all 3 of them were taking turns running and jumping into the pool. As soon as I started taking pictures of this Sam stopped doing it!

The 3 guilty culprits that were throwing ice on Bernadette and I!

After quite a bit of running and jumping into the pool there was a nice little muddy spot that they were stepping in as they were jumping into the pool…so the water in the pool looked like a mud bath. It was time for clean water!

It was at this point that Bernadette (sitting right behind them) got quite the shower from the hose!

Jumping in the clean water!

Isn’t she just sweet? Apparently she was scared of me (and only me!) when we got there. Not sure if it was me waving like a crazy lady to her as she was watching us get our stuff out of the car when we got there (and apparently she was crying in the window then)…or if it was when I decided to poke my head around the couch as she was hiding as far back in the corner  as she could possibly get…she started crying again then! I can’t remember what question the 3 adults not making her cry asked her..it was either what’s wrong or what’s scaring you or something like that and she pointed to me!!! So, I crawled into the corner and hid from her then! She did warm up to me soon after that and didn’t pout when she saw me! Phew!!

Brandon has a pool table that the kids think is just great!

And Sammy got this bouncey worm thing for her birthday in February. I’ve never seen them before but wow was it fun! It’s going to have to go on the list of things that Emily “needs!”

Zach and Sam were having a picnic and Brandon thought he’d teach them how to toast. It was quite comical. Even when Zach decided he’d rather drink his pretend champagne Sam wanted to toast him so she’d reach over and tap his glass while he was either drinking from it or just holding it on the floor..

They were just tooooo cute!