Our First Official Visitor from MN!!

Who more appropriate to be our first visitor than our favorite babysitter/best friend, Justine?! After we left Minnesota in December, her and her parents booked her flight down here for March 4th. It seemed like such a long way off at the time, but it came up quicker than we expected! So we took our first trip to the Tulsa airport to pick her up. It was so exciting to watch all the big airplanes land and take off.

Gabie found a table at the airport that he REALLY liked. It was round with a round hole in it. Without hesitation, Gabie figured out what to do with that table!As we watched the screens for Justine's flight, the time kept going up and we ended up at the airport for 2 hours. It was such an adventure though that the time went by fast. When she arrived, it was such a cool feeling for all of us!

(Okay, Gabie was a little unsure at first. But it only took him a few minutes to get warmed right up to Justine!)

For Justine's last day with us in Oklahoma, we were honored to be able to celebrate her 17th birthday with her! For those of you who remember when we first met Justine, it was 6 years ago! Dylan was just 6 months old! Since then, she's been at their birthday parties, Vince's baptism last year (which we also celebrated the one-year anniversary for on Justine's birthday), Faith's first steps and first easter, and so much more! While she was here, she even got to watch Dylan test for his first karate belt! (See later posting for that!)

The weather didn't warm up until her last two days here, so when it did we took her to the infamous Catoosa Blue Whale on Route 66.

It was so quiet there and the weather was so nice, we just relaxed there for an hour. The kids threw anything they could find on the ground into the water,

And Justine and Vince discovered that fish like acorns!

Justine, you mean so much to our family! Thank you and thank you to your parents for making it all possible! We love you!