A week and a half ago our good friends, the Draschil's, came out and stayed with us while Joseph was doing Business school interviews at Babson and Dartmouth.
They earned "exceptionally awesome house guest" status by cooking for us (3 times!), helping set up our house for the Halloween party, filling up our gas, cleaning up and doing dishes after every meal, introducing us to a new world of iPhone apps, and thoroughly entertaining our kids. Totally above and beyond awesome. : )
It was also fun that Melinda and I are both pregnant at the same time again (her daughter Brielle was born a few weeks after Brinley) So we could totally relate on all the pregnancy issues of the glorious 3rd trimester.
Anyway, here are some of the pics from their visit:
The day after they got here they were gracious enough to be my party slaves and helped with all the Halloween party prep. They impressed everyone with their awesome Monster's inc. costumes and their mad Minute-to-Win it Skills.
On Saturday after Joseph's info session at Babson we all went down to Boston to the Halloween Fest at the Prudential Center. They had tons of great activities for kids:
Fun character's the kids could pose with.
A car they were given free reign to graffiti. Total kid heaven.
Now we're just afraid to ever let then near our cars with a real marker!
Free face painting (which Teya LOVED, if you can't tell from the pictures)
The three girls with their face painting designs.
(had to get them matching big sister shirts too since they will all be big sisters very soon!)
And Pumpkin decorating.
It was a great afternoon and so neat to have such a big kid friendly event down in Boston.
Other highlights from their visit:
Making sugar cookies with the kiddos. It was messy, and the cookies weren't pretty, but they tasted awesome and the girls had fun so that's what counts : )
Apple Farm visit: I know, I know, we've been there a ton this fall, but the apple donuts are awesome and fresh picked apples are the BEST!
5 mile run for the boys. Yeah, they're hardcore like that.
And possibly my favorite highlight: On their last night here we all stayed up really late laughing and chatting. I was worried I would pay for it the next day but to my surprise I blissfully slept in the next morning. I was shocked when I finally woke around 9am and wondered how on earth my girls hadn't woken me up before that. When I went downstairs I found them wide awake and being thoroughly entertained by Joseph's iPad. Apparently they had been up since 6:30!! But he wanted us to sleep in so he got up with them and kept them entertained for 2 and half hours. And as if that wasn't enough he also made German pancakes with homemade syrup. Um yeah, like I said, exceptionally awesome house guests!
8 comments:
Love the new blog look and love that you had such fun house guests! Also, Joseph's little girl looks JUST LIKE HIM! Crazy!
Wow! Do your guests want to come visit us? Ha ha! Looks like it was so much fun! It's great that you have had so many people visit since you have lived there...I need some of that rubbed off on my family and friends! :)
Aren't those ipads great!? Chenoa absolutely LOVES my dad's! It's amazing how much she know how to do! And yes, those were awesome house guests...they should teach seminars on how to be so awesome at people's homes! heehee. I always hate it when people offer to do our dishes...but it's also the sweetest gesture!!
Wow, they really were the best house guests ever!
I am not suprised that they earned this title, I know how awesome Joseph is and I am not at all shocked that he found a cute wife just as great as he is! The little girls look like they had a blast, so so so stinkin' cute!
I would like to be your house guest and I would like to be friends with these people as well :)
I should've been your houseguest while they were there!
Tell the Draschil's they are welcome in our home anytime :) Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.
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