houseguests!

well, we've been living in a world of insanity as of late. there's the house-buying, house renovating, moving into the house, SNAFU'S out the WAZOO with our previous (but still sort of current) landlords from the mordecai house, and on top of that, andrew's new job, my teacher workdays starting, and oh yeah - going to california! but to add some spice to life, we had the wonderful pleasure of also having houseguests last night!

while i am quite overwhelmed by everything else i listed above, it was completely awesome to have donna and jeremy over for the night. i hadn't seen them in a year or so, and even then it was just for a day, so when donna called to tell me they'd be coming through town, i couldn't have been more thrilled to have them stay with us for a night! we had TONS of catching up to do, and i'm glad the boys were kind enough to let us chat away for hours. we had dinner together, and we even played with the dogs and took a walk around the neighborhood, but the coolest part is that donna is pregnant! i had a blast watching the alien-being squirm around in donna's belly, and i'm pretty sure everyone else had a blast watching me squeal every time it moved. it was craziness.

this is the crew (minus me of course) eating dinner, and no, the pregnant woman is not drinking wine - it's grape juice :-)

i just have to say, it's so nice to have good friends, whether they're far or near, whether we see one another all the time or only occasionally; good friends are hard to come by, but they are surely one of God's greatest blessings.