We spent the weekend in Madison, WI with our dear friends (more like
family) the Nielsens. They recently moved from Albuquerque to plant a
church. We have a lot of history together-- Dan and I lived with them
in a three story townhouse in our second year of marriage (their third
I think) while Kim was in PA school. They had the top floor, we had
the bottom floor and we shared the middle. Dan and Zach (famed blogger Vitamin Z) worked together at Parkview Church for a number of years and also traveled around in a
band together for 5 years. So we've lived in close community with
them in the past but since they moved and we've all procreated and gathered up children we haven't had a chance to really do that. Well this weekend, we brought our three kids to their house with their four kids, and that was some close
community :) It was so fun and the kids did GREAT together.
They have Taylor, who is 5 weeks older than Eden, Autumn who is about
10 mo. older than Elly, Emery who is 3 (poor guy gets left out of the
pairings) and Mya who is 2 this month (Esias is smitten with her, she is a beauty who came to them via a whirlwind domestic adoption. It's a pretty cool story. Read it here.). We
had a blast. Madison was beautiful and the weather was more like June
than October. We went to a park, played outside, held Sandy
Fluffernutter the Bearded Dragon, ate meals together, laughed, and
enjoyed ourselves quite muchly :)
Eden has her prized dog tag in her mouth...
Miss Autumn
Belly
Most of the big kids plus some other random children.
Esias and Mya
Taylor, a.k.a. Bear Grylls
Eden must be telling a story...Autumn really liked her :)
Taylor's "gnarly tooth" as he calls it
E could not get enough of making Mya smile
Sandy Flufflernutter, Taylor's pet lizard
