Special Visitors

Over the past few weeks, we've had several special visitors to our house. I haven't been able to take pictures of all of our friends, but wanted to give a special shout-out to them anyway.

Can you believe that we had the ICE CREAM MAN come by our house?!? I was so excited...and so was Scott! He had been doing yard work, and when I came outside to check on him, we both heard it at the exact same time....the beautiful melody that immediately took us back to our childhood. What a treat! This ice cream man sells lots of goodies--including pizza and tacos. I kept it simple and ordered 2 fudge popcicles. After paying, I realized that ice cream is not immune to inflation either. Oh well, it was worth the trip down memory lane.

Of course, I took a picture. Doesn't his ride look like an old short church bus? Kinda weird.

As for our over-night visitors, we recently had our good friend Gracyn stay with us while her parents were celebrating their anniversary (yeah!). Our special treat for Gracyn was a trip to Ya-Ya's for yogurt. (They charge by the ounce, so it rivaled the ice cream man.) Ya-ya's is on the Square, so we got to take Mo along. We had a blast with Gracyn!

We also had Mo's good friend and cousin, Sipsey, stay with us for several nights.

Doesn't Mo look thrilled? He does like it when Sipsey comes over, but he has to act cool about it.

Other visitors that I did not get a picture of include our friends, the Davis family. Their house got struck by lightening, so while they were dealing with insurance folks, they were nomads. We gladly had them stay with us for a night (and would have longer, but they got much fancier accommdations in a condo on the Square!). I wish I had snapped a pic because I just love their daughters, Raegan (7), Farryn (4), and Brooklyn (14 mo). Precious. Love them.

We also had my good friend, Duncan, stay one night with us as he was in town to sign his new contract with Oxford Middle School. I am estatic that the Duncan and Amber--with their wonderful daughters, Harper (3) and Sadie (1)--are moving to Oxford! Yahooooooooooooo! Duncan and I grew up together and became very close while at Alabama. It makes me happy to know that before long we'll be raising our children in our hometown. He and I had a great time catching up...and probably stayed up way too late for "old" people.

We had 1 more special visitor, but I'll save that for another post.