Having a great visit...

Our friends The Pelteiers came to visit yesterday from Ft. Benning, GA. They will be moving soon because they are being stationed in Germany for the next three years so luckily we are getting the opportunity to see them again before they leave! They arrived Saturday around 3:00pm...but it rained off and on all day so we just took it easy and hung out at home. The children didn't mind because they spent the entire time playing in Libby's room so they were perfectly fine with not leaving all day. This morning we were granted some sunshine until about 4:30pm...that was a nice break from the constant rain that we've had since LAST SUNDAY so we took advantage of it and I took them to the stadium to get some pictures of them in front of The Swamp. On their facebook pages they have a picture of them in front of LSU's stadium with some of their friends and I couldn't allow them to leave without getting a picture of them in front of The Swamp! :-) We went into the stadium to take some more pictures and let the kids run up and down the stadium steps. After that we went by Lake Alice to look for alligators but we couldn't find any out. From there we went to have lunch. After lunch we went to the Museum of Natural History and as we left there it was about to start raining but we went back Lake Alice one more time just to see if maybe they could finally see an alligator. There was one sunning on the little island and as we watched him he went down into the water and swam right over to us and just sat and watched us from the edge of the lake as we stood there watching him. They took some pictures and "ooh"ed and "aahh"ed. After that it was time to come home and that is where we are now just hanging out enjoying our time together.

I got a random text from my brother last night that he, his wife, and my two nieces would be arriving in Gainesville today at noon and leaving early Tuesday morning. What?? What kind of notice is a text at 10:32pm???? My friends are leaving tomorrow so I'll be heading over to see my nieces for an unexpected visit!