Arkansas, Dining Room Furniture, Another Tooth!

We forgot to pick up both rolls of film :), so I'll post more later! The last picture is of my dear friend (like a little sister to me) Christine, who I got to see at Michah's memorial.




Thursday afternoon, Josh, James, and I headed up to Northwest Arkansas to see precious baby Harry and his parents. We had so much fun loving on Harry (he's even cuter and sweeter in person), watching them love on James, hanging out in our pj's all day catching up, going out to eat with 2 babies (it really went very smoothly!), putting the babes to bed, and talking some more. We were so sad to have to leave so soon after we got there, but Saturday morning, we left for Harding to go to the memorial for our friend Micah who was killed in Iraq. It was an amazing memorial...one of the kinds where you weep and laugh and feel your heart fill up with joy because he's home now. Hearing his sweet parents' strength and his friends' stories of how he lived out his faith, brough many to Christ, and of the impact he had on so many around him, was inspiring to me and I think everyone in the room. It was a sad occasion, but we were thrilled to get to see almost all of our really close college friends, which is a rarity. When we're all together, it feels like we just left and is so hard to believe that we've been out 4 1/2-6 years...until we look down in our arms and see our babies! I was so excited to get another opportunity to see Adalie and her parents! We're already planning our next time to get together. James already misses Adalie and Harry! We ended our trip spending the night with Josh's best friend Cody, and his wife Lauren, who I've really enjoyed getting to know, at Cody's parents house. We just love them and spent the night laughing, which we always do when Cody and Josh are together. I love watching them together. His parents spoiled us the next morning by making a huge, delicious breakfast, which tanked us up for the long ride home. We were so thankful we didn't run into any bad weather like they were predicting!

We had an exciting Monday. My grandmother moved today to a place that has no dining room, so she gave us her dining room furniture! It's the table my dad grew up eating at, and my grandma needle pointed the seats, so it's very special to me. Elizabeth came over and used decorative items in my house to decorate the room, and we're so excited with how it looks in there! I will post pictures later when I get my china in the cabinet. I will also post pictures of the weekend later when I get my photo cd. I used my sis's old camera, which in not digital, so I actually had to drop the film off today. Remember those days? It was weird buying film and camera batteries! You can also check Amanda and Kim's blogs for some pictures of the weekend.

Can't forget to add this...James cut his 7th tooth this weekend! He was a little extra fussy, but he's doing better now.