Late Night Fun

 After seeing the picture I posted yesterday of Jonathan and I, Sarah asked me just how tall Jonathan is?

I was enjoying how tall he was so much that I called him from watching football to get the bowls down from above the stove....

Seriously, who needs a footstool when Jonathan is around, right?

Jonathan is 6'8" tall.  And I am 5'3"...here he is with Elijah.

Sweet, sweet guy and really, truly hysterical.  He had us doubled over more than once yesterday.

 After putting some of the littler ones to bed last night, we played Left, Right, Center.

Ever played it?   Super, super fun!  

 

Jonathan and Tellus goofing around.

 Savannah seemed to keep cleaning up at Left, Right, Center...

We kept it pretty low key yesterday.  Just a few people who might need some family time....because of their situation....and let me tell you, all day today I smiled.  The meshing together of people who had never met each other - was beautiful.  We laughed.  We talked.  We gave thanks over and over.  

And then late last night my cell rang.  Oh thank you sweet Jesus, it was that precious son we miss oh-so-much....calling from far, far away.  It was so good to hear his voice.  We talked for just a minute and the call was disconnected.  We waited for him to call back.  But he did not.  We are thankful for that quick minute....

Around midnight, a few of us went into the hot tub.  The temperature outside was a brisk 8 degrees.  

Yes! Single digits!!  

Then we decided for the kids to have their friends spend the night and a couple of minutes after 5 am I drove them to New Mexico to shop.   We thought we would find some deals.  All we found was that a billion {not much exaggeration} thought they would find some deals as well.  We turned around in no time and headed home.  We made a big breakfast and reminisced about the fun of yesterday. 

Graham said a few minutes ago, "That was pretty dumb how the shopping was in New Mexico this morning, we won't ever do that again. But we can laugh about it forever."   Yes, indeed, sweet son, yes indeed.