South Carolina

I'm still trying to catch everyone up on what's been happening since we arrived back in the States. The first several weeks we stayed with our best friends CAS & Christy while we house-hunted in South Carolina. We had such fun! Just living like one big communal happy family! The kids all played and we were able to share some responsibility so it worked out perfect. How wonderful of our friends to be so generous!

Michael and Mary Ellen's first bath together in the tub. What fun they had! Why did we wait so long to do this? Truly their favorite new activity.

David loved playing with M&M. You can definitely tell he's the big brother. So sweet with both of them. Mary Ellen took to David immediately. We loved to joke about David being her boyfriend. She would always get so excited when he came into the room.

Carly sharing stuffed animals with Mary Ellen. What a sweet sensitive girl Carly is! She also loved to show off her pet gerbil "Harry" to M&M. Wow, a living moving animal...they loved it!

Daniel also loved playing with M&M. And vying for some sorely lost attention. Poor Daniel, he was the baby and then instantly there were TWO more babies to compete with. He was so sweet putting Mr. CAS's hat on Mary Ellen.

Such a cute shot of Mary Ellen standing in Mr. CAS's boots!

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day during those first several weeks back. No big holiday for us really. But another fun occasion to take cute pictures of M&M. We were happy to be back in South Carolina (have I mentioned that!) and loved going for walks. It was still VERY cold there so we actually were able to bundle M&M up. After living in over 100 degree weather for a year it was really such fun! Don't they look like the kid in "A Christmas Story"?

Such fun! And we're looking forward to lots more fun times with our precious friends...since we're building our house right across the street from them!!!