A visit from Papa

Papa stopped in for a short visit en route to some meetings on the other side of Florida. Luckily we still made it on his travel circuit. He gave us a minneola tangelo tree and valencia orange tree as a house warming gift. Brian planted the trees while I took the kids for a swim. He was so excited it did not take him a pick axe and 4 hrs to dig a tree-size hole like it does in Texas. We also ate some BBQ and played Settlers of Catan (Jacob loves this game and wants to play anytime we have visitors.) I have been spoiled to have 3 weekends of visitors.

Papa and the kids ready for church.

One day when I finally organize my stuff, I will start taking house pictures. This is our entryway, the stair case leads up to a loft that over looks the living room. At first, I was going to make the loft the toy room, but Adam and the open staircase are not a good combination. I was also pretty sure that toys and kids would eventually come flying over the balcony, so the loft became the office/craft space/ extra, extra guest room/ catch-all space. So a picture will probably never be taken of that room.

Grace carries the recessive genes for tongue rolling.

Grace has finally grown a couple of inches. She has always been in the 10th percentile for height and compared to Merry who has always been in the 90th percentile, she looks tiny. She loves to make people laugh and is always dressing up for Merry and Jacob's entertainment. Today she wore a unicorn costume and danced around then came and told us that "unicorns eat corn when they are hungry." Make perfect sense to me.