Jacob, Megan, Eliza, Jack, Michael, Nathan, Kylie, Matthew and Liam
On the 2nd we headed down to Richmond to see our friends, Michael & Heather and Greg & Melissa. Too fun. We have 9 kids between the 3 families and they are all under the age of 8 (at least for the next 3 weeks). We've been friends for a long, long time in multiple ways - Michael and Dan since 7th grade (then roommates throughout college), Heather and I since freshman year in college then roommates throughout, I've known Greg and Melis since freshman year as well through Young Life (Dan even earlier), then were in a housegroup with them for 2 years in Blacksburg, but didn't really hang out then (what a waste!) and now they all live in Richmond (along with other friends we didn't get to see because they were on vacation in Ohio :( ) Just great to get together, have kids hang out and spend the day together (and swim, play outside, race the turtles, jump on the "srampoline" (Kylie's pronounciation) and eat yummy food). The kids got along great, we loved being down there and loved being with them!
The kiddos
Megan and Michael
Jack and Michael
Liam attempting to pull the big kids
Dan raced Greg down the hill on the turtles. In Greg's defense, Dan used his hands to push on the street and thus propel himself to win, i.e. not fairly.
After that, Dan rode down against Michael (Greg's oldest son), who asked Dan not to push on the ground with his hands, since it's wasn't fair.
Then, right before going down with Dan on the turtle, Michael whispered in Dan's ear that Dan could push on the street if he wanted to (so they could win). He was too cute with his situational ethics :)
A picture Kylie took of me, Melis and Heather
And a picture of the 3 of us in the fall of 1997 at Young Life's Rockbridge Family Camp. We were helping watch kids...we look sooo young!
The couples (with Dan goofing off)
The (handsome) Men
All the boys, minus Liam, who was asleep already
Eliza and Megan (we tripled the number of girls by bringing our 2 - normally Eliza is the only one)
We didn't leave Richmond until 10pm that night and most of the kids were still going strong (thank you guys for letting us stay until then!) This is how Kylie was for the last 45minutes there...Thanks for a great time guys! We love you!!!
3 comments:
So fun! I know you were really looking forward to that time with great friends!
So nice to have roots with old friends. That's quite a gang of kids in the next generation. I am ever grateful to Michael for talking Dan into going to Virginia Tech or I would have never gotten such a great daughter-in-law!!!
yay, I'm glad you got to see each other...that Rockbridge picture always cracks me up!
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