friends

we have been busy around here this last week with two different sets of friends staying the night. first we had saben and annika for 1 night while their parents are traveling through spain. it was interesting having 3 kids sleep in our 900 sq foot house...but it worked out and everyone amazingly slept great. i had the kids for not quite 24 hours and i was exhausted after dressing, feeding, cleaning and shuffling 3 kids in and out of carseats. i was even crazy enough to let them talk me into walking to the store in the rain first thing in the morning because a request for cereal was put out there, followed by an "i want mommy and daddy"....i was suckered into feeling bad and therefore ditched my plan of making pancakes and negotiated with 3 children under the age of 5 in the cereal aisle. everyone was happy post cereal - especially me because it's not something we normally eat so felt like a yummy treat!

annika, riley & saben - getting ready to leave for saben's preschool

annika & riley reading to e/o at the library

our next visitors were all the way from michigan...our good friends kristen & cora. they were in WA for a visit to several friends so they spent two nights with us. we spent the couple days lounging around, playing outside & at the park and laughing at our funny toddlers. kristen and i are both due with girls within days of e/o in september. we love you girls and thank you again for visiting us!

cora gave riley her very own "baby sasha" - a doll of cora's riley has been in love with since the day she saw her. riley was thrilled to open the gift and has not put her down since.

lots of naked sun time

tyler has been gone all week in Idaho for work, so i am ready to have him home tomorrow night and enjoy a mellow weekend. we are starting to re-arrange our bedroom to make more space for a few pieces of baby furniture that will need a home in our room...rocking chair, changing table/dresser...i have become very creative with my limited space!

i am now 6 1/2 months pregnant and still feeling good. i've been a bit more tired lately and my belly is just getting bigger and bigger. i will take another picture and post it soon. speaking of pictures, i promise to post pictures from our maui trip soon. the amount of pictures i have to choose from is too overwhelming so i've just been ignoring it...happy wednesday!