Last Week

Last week Bert had the opportunity to go to Nicaragua with a team from our church to minister to the sweet people down there.  They had a great trip!  He came back with stories, pictures and a burden to go back soon...

The girls and I decided we would take a trip to Toccoa while he was out of the country.  We spent time with Mimi, Papa, Aunt Katherine, Uncle Brett, Jacob and Uncle Stanley....fun fun!  

We had playdates with Katherine and Jacob every day. Jacob plays well with both Emily and Hannah and it is so fun to watch.  Emily and Jacob like to push the shopping cart around, dance to music...Jacob and Hannah like to chase each other while crawling around, play with blocks....good times with their cousin!  

On Tuesday we decided to go to story time at the Stephens County Library.  Katherine and Jacob go every week and they love it!  I had to wake Hannah up from her morning nap so that we could make it, but it was worth it.  The lady that does the story time each week is AMAZING!!!  I was so impressed with how well she kept the kids attention!  They also sang songs and danced!  Not long after it started Emily stood up and walked up to the front to inform the lady doing the story time that she has a boo-boo...she also showed her where it was.  Ha!  My face definitely got a little red, but all the parents just chuckled and no one seemed to mind.:)  Katherine said those cute little interruptions happen all the time.

Here they are about to sing a song and do hand motions...all the big kids were standing in the front of the room...that's Em on the far left in the picture below.  It's crazy that Emily is a "big kid!" 

My mom works right across the street from the library so she took her lunch break during story time.  Hannah wasn't missing a thing! 

Happy girl!  

Aunt Patti stopped by to visit and bring Hannah a birthday present.  She gave her this fun tunnel!  Hannah loves it....she just goes back and forth....smiling the whole time of course.  I know the picture below is a little blurry, but I liked it!  

My parents have 2 stairs right off of their kitchen that lead up to the landing that you see in the picture below.  All three kids LOVE these stairs.  They would rather be playing on these two stairs than any where else in the house. If they take off crawling or walking somewhere just know they're heading for these stairs.  The only problem is that Hannah and Jacob are absolutely fearless and would literally dive off the top stair head first if we weren't there to catch them.  Jacob is doing better with them than Hannah, but still can't be totally trusted on them.  So, hopefully in another year these stairs will no longer be a danger zone.:)  

Here they are on their beloved stairs....

Thursday morning we headed over to play at the Sanders' house.  The train table that Jacob got for Christmas is always a big hit!  

Hannah getting tickled by Papa!  

Emily playing with Mimi!  

The morning we were leaving I was upstairs packing our bags and Mom was downstairs in the kitchen with the girls.  She was washing dishes and decided to let Hannah pull out everything in her lazy susan.  Haha...this is what I found when I came down the stairs.  I had to grab my camera.:) 

Things you only get to do at Mimi's house....:)  

We were so thankful that Bert was able to take part in the mission trip to Nicaragua and that we were able to spend time with my family.  It was a great week, but we were SO excited about seeing Bert on Saturday night!  He got in about 1:30am, so the girls were asleep, but he made sure go and give them a kiss and check on them as soon as he walked in the door.  He missed his girls, and we missed him!:)