Chapman's Visit

My brave sister made the 2-hour drive to Atlanta from Athens, GA and then flew from Atlanta to Dallas with her 5-year-old and 5-month-old boys so that she could visit us for a week. All that to arrive to chaos here in Dallas because we moved from Mimosa to the yellow house on the Saturday she arrived (more about the move in a future post). Courtney picked her up from the airport and they met us at the new house. B and her babies did great traveling and those boys are so stinking cute! Samuel is a charmer and Josiah could not even be more of a doll and he has the most sweet and calm nature.

Night one at the new house didn't go super and since it was also our first night in the new house our kiddos were unsettled as well. At about midnight I took a distraught Colton back over to Mimosa and even there he had a hard time calming down. We revamped our approach for Night 2 and Bethany and her boys relocated to the Mimosa house. They slept great there and we had beds for all of them still at Mimosa since we left quite a bit of furniture there for staging. Since that system worked so well Bethany and her boys stayed at Mimosa for the rest of their trip.

Bethany was so flexible and helpful! She helped me pack and clean at Mimosa and unpack quite a lot at the new house. Even amidst all the packing activities we managed to fit in a few fun things including church on Sunday and then lunch at DD and Big John's house, sisters (plus Josiah) birthday lunch for me at Banditos, CJ and Bethany took all the kids to the Perot Museum on Tuesday (I had to work) and they had a great time, dinner at a hibachi grill on Wednesday evening - the boys really liked eating steak and shrimp and watching the cooking right in front of us, and plenty of play time including Cadie, Samuel and Ranger staying all afternoon at DDs on Monday.

We managed to throw the kids together on the couch late on our final evening together so we could get at least one cousins pic and it turned out so cute! I sure wish my sister and her family lived closer, but I am so thankful that she made the investment to come and visit. We had a great time and my kids already want to know when we are going to Georgia to visit them.