Company!

We are having such a fun time with our company! We first met Ted and Beverly when we were all stationed together in Ohio, and we were all attending the same church. They had a daughter and were expecting their second child, while I was expecting our third. After we moved to VA, they moved to MD for a year, and we did get together once. Since then they have moved to Las Vegas and then back to Ohio. We kept up originally by Christmas cards, but now we can stay in touch much better with the great convenience of Facebook!

Now Ted and Beverly have 5 kids--2 girls and 3 boys. Their oldest daughter, Charis, doesn't have any girls here her age (and so has had to content herself with books from our bookshelf), but their next 2 are boys Caleb and Jonathan's age. All the boys have been having fun playing outside as well as playing many games of Stratego. They also have a girl, Kenna, who is the same age as Grace. She, Grace, and Anna have been having a ball dressing up as many variations of princesses and playing all sorts of girly games involving lots of giggling. So cute! Faith either tags along with them, or plays with Ted and Beverly's youngest, a boy named Lucan, who is about 6 weeks younger than her. She calls him "Baby" however, since he is soooo much younger than her, LOL. Sometimes she calls him "Theodore", which is the name of Ed and Elizabeth's baby, and that seems to be the name she thinks all babies are technically called by. Anyhow, she and Lucan are getting along well. Sometimes they play Duplos together, and they enjoy chasing each other up and down the stairs.

They are all actually here to sightsee, this being a big "American history vacation". They went to Monticello, then to Williamsburg for homeschool days, and now 4 days in D.C. They will continue on to Philadelphia for 2 days before heading home. That's a nice little history vacation! Right now Ted, Beverly, and the older 3 kids are on a night-time bike tour of the monuments. It was raining this morning when we all went to church, but we prayed the rain would go away, and the Lord answered! It seems like it should be a lovely niight for a bike ride, with nice, cool weather. I'm eager to get the report when they return!

Ted made us whole wheat pancakes for breakfast this morning, with fresh strawberries for topping. YUM! The recipe was his parents' (grandparents too maybe?), and it uses fresh ground wheat berries that you grind in the blender. I'm definitely going to have to get that recipe! We all ate several pancakes this morning and noticed how full we felt all through church!

Well, I am supposed to be working some more on my science lesson for Tuesday, but I am clearly procrastinating by blogging, LOL. I must get back to work . . .