surprise

Yesterday morning we woke up to a phone call from Sierra saying "how'd you like a visitor!?"  Of course we immediately said yes and plans were made for me to pick her up at the airport that night.

Meanwhile, Ethan was still sick.  I am delighted to report that today he seems much better and I expect he'll be 100% next week.  This is a lingering gunk.

Zoo day

Hannah has been spending a lot of time with the Crawley's.  She's having a great time getting to know her new family and they have welcomed her with open arms.  It's an exciting time, being engaged and planning a wedding, being with your sweetheart, getting to know your new sisters and brothers.  One fun thing about them is all the kids are pretty close in age and are all newly married (within the last few years) so they are in the same stage of life.  All of their kids were here this year for Christmas (they do an every other year thing) and then Grandpa Crawley died so they ended up staying longer than planned (his funeral is Tuesday) so they've had lots of fun family plans.

Grace and Dad and I are working on our 4th puzzle, which is kind of strange to me because I have not been a fan of doing puzzles but I am enjoying them very much and my skills are improving.

sisters

Sierra and I had a nice drive home from the airport and then we all stayed up until 1am talking and catching up.  She is a lot of fun to have around and has been cheerful and talkative and has swept in and made our kind of quiet holiday house much more lively.  Which is a nice thing:)  With the boys being sick, and our Hannahkin busy being engaged, it's been much more quiet than normal.  Which isn't bad but it's nice to change it up.  We are all excited to have her here and to spend some fun days together.

Today we went to the gym together.  Then to lunch at panera bread.  A couple of movies are on the agenda and the weather is sunny and bright and lovely!