Our Weekend Visitors

Once upon a time, Andrea and I would get together and do all of our favorite things that we love to do together- shop, eat, shop, drink, shop, pedicure... girlfriend stuff!

MY OH MY, how times have changed!

Now our visits are filled with being mommies together!

Sure, some shopping, dining and pampering would have been absolutely fabulous,

but who would have taken care of our 5 children????

It was wonderful to see Andrea, as always, and I was so happy to introduce her to the newest man in my life, Max.

Our girls played together, and they quickly bonded over a shared love of princesses! They were very excited to watch Princess and the Frog, and we thought it was super cute to see them all lined up (Max is only in this picture for effect, but Joe stayed and watched most of the movie with the girlies).

The kids were very busy all weekend.
They played dress-up...

and doctor, and dolls...

and looked at books,

all while Max tried to keep up and take part in the action.

And they even did a little of this:

And in true Andrea fashion, she did not arrive empty handed- she brought me a bottle of homemade Kahlua! Though her visit was too short, the Kahlua has brought happiness all week long :)

Someday we will once again get to spend a day together window shopping in Anthropologie, shopping the sales at Gap, perusing through Pottery Barn, all with iced coffee drinks in hand, and only stopping to eat lunch at The Cheesecake Factory...

And on that day, I'll bet that we will express how we miss the days when our kids were little and were overjoyed by the simple pleasures in life, like jelly beans!