Our friends Karen, Kate, Lauren and the new addition Madeline (8 mos old) are here visiting from Califonia (Carlos had to stay behind to work). Brief history: Karen and I met while preg w/the twins (twins birthing classs). Our due dates were just a couple of weeks apart, she ended up delivering Kate and Lauren just five days before we had Emma and Sara....we have been fast friends ever since. Karen and Carlos relocated to Sacramento for his job two summers ago. So other than phone calls and email, this might just be the first time we've been able to get together??!
Yesterday Karen's parents hosted an open house as an opportunity for friends and family to convene in one place for a visit, so the kids and I drove out to Vancouver for the afternoon. It was SO great to see everyone, to meet Madeline....what a sweetheart!!....and to re-connect the "big" girls!!! It's been a while since they had seen each other, so they were all pretty shy at first. But nothing brings four nine year olds together like a little shananigans!! Karen's uncle passed out some pea shooters and a bag of soy beans, a suddenly they all found themselves outside on the back deck, pea shooters in hand.....they were off and running (litterally!)!!! I had to pry them apart when it was time to leave, but dangled a carrot of a "girls" trip to CA this coming summer!! So Karen, if you are reading this, it was REALLY GREAT to see you: WE MISS YOU!!! We hope to pay a visit to CA this summer!!!
Because I love those retrospective photo opportunities, below are a couple of photos of the girls--one from yesterday and one from about nine years ago!!!
Yesterday Karen's parents hosted an open house as an opportunity for friends and family to convene in one place for a visit, so the kids and I drove out to Vancouver for the afternoon. It was SO great to see everyone, to meet Madeline....what a sweetheart!!....and to re-connect the "big" girls!!! It's been a while since they had seen each other, so they were all pretty shy at first. But nothing brings four nine year olds together like a little shananigans!! Karen's uncle passed out some pea shooters and a bag of soy beans, a suddenly they all found themselves outside on the back deck, pea shooters in hand.....they were off and running (litterally!)!!! I had to pry them apart when it was time to leave, but dangled a carrot of a "girls" trip to CA this coming summer!! So Karen, if you are reading this, it was REALLY GREAT to see you: WE MISS YOU!!! We hope to pay a visit to CA this summer!!!
Because I love those retrospective photo opportunities, below are a couple of photos of the girls--one from yesterday and one from about nine years ago!!!
I can't help but look at the photo of these four beauties and flash forward to 9 or 10 years from now thinking about what the "retrospective" photo might look like next to this one 
But I guess you can't keep them confined to the carpet, munching on graham crackers forever!! L to R: Kate, Lauren, Emma, Sara (thank goodness our girls finally grew some hair!!!)
Partners in crime....shooting soy beans off the deck!
Introducing Madeline (with big sis Kate). What a beauty!!!!
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Fun to see the girls....I remember them from the early twins days. Sometimes I still think the girls are little like that second picture and then you really look at them and-Wow!
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