We'll Leave the Light On For You

June has been a month filled with visitors. We've loved it! Before Joe's parent's arrived, our friends Jeffrey and Keri (who used to live here) came for a weekend visit. They didn't stay with us, but we did attend their baby shower (Keri is due just two weeks before me with their first baby) and they stopped by for an afternoon to visit and to see the girls.

Keri has had a magical influence on our children's walking abilities. She was present the night Xandra took her first steps, (Joe and Jeffrey had left to pick up fried chicken) and she was here to see Aliyah taking some of her first steps. Unfortunately, Aliyah has stalled at taking just a few steps every other day for the last several weeks, but we're hopeful that before the age of 10 she'll be walking.

Our friend, Mr. Dan, as the girls like to call him (who lives locally), stopped by that day, too.

Amidst Joe's parents' stay, our good friend, Jim stopped by for a visit. He was on a cross country tour to visit friends and supporters (his wife, Marianna and he are campus ministers with a ministry in Boone, NC).

The girls enjoyed his company immensely and so did the rest of us. Unfortunately, he was headed back home after a short visit to our home (we were his first stop on the journey). He hurt his knee weedwacking the day before and things weren't looking good for his knee. I'm sure his wife was glad to see him two weeks early, after all, living with Jim is like living with Simon Cowell (in looks only)! Who wouldn't be happy about that?

Photo and editing credit: Joe Pull

Just a few days after we said goodbye to Grandma, Grandpa and Jim, we welcomed five boys into our home. They were here for a national communications (think speech and debate) conference. They worked for the organization hosting the event. We didn't see much of them as they left early and came home late, but we did enjoy having them around. They were polite, pleasant, and pretty tidy. Xandra's first question every morning was, "Where are the boys?"

Our home will enjoy a lull in the next few weeks while we wait for our final visitors of the summer, a group of students from the Czech Republic visiting on a missions trip. If anyone else is interested in stopping for a visit, we'd love to have you! We're like Motel 6, we'll leave the light on for you.