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A Great Weekend Visit

Way back in the early days of my teaching career, when I was much closer in age to my students,  I became friends with one of my students who I kept in touch with since she graduated in 2003. Since her graduation, Amy has moved around the country, married a fantastic guy, had four incredibly beautiful and awesome kiddos, and settled just outside of Erie. It seemed fitting to visit Amy's gang this past weekend since I had a conference in Erie. Amy kindly opened her house to my family for the weekend and we had a wonderful time with her family!

I made a banana pumpkin bread for the family and Sophia (who is usually called FiFi) found it and sampled it just to make sure it was OK for everyone else! She told Amy that it tasted like it was birthday cake. I'd say that's the 'OK' for everyone else to eat it! FiFi is 2&1/2 but can talk like nobody's business!

 Amy, Ian, and the kiddos took us to the Erie Children's Museum. It was a lot of fun and every kid had fun. This was part of the gang standing outside of the museum.

From left: Sophia, Clint, Alivia, and Jackson

Jackson trying to make the world's biggest bubble!

Me in the antigravity mirror

The two 4-year-olds. Jude and Clint are just 2 weeks apart. 

 Jackson and Jude coming down the slide

Jackson playing with a recycling exhibit

Oh Jude! They had a face painting station........

My absolute favorite room was the grocery store - the kids could walk around and get items from the shelves and check them out. There was an old cash register to 'check out' the food. This is totally where I would've spent hours as a young gal!

Our one shot of all 6 kiddos.

Sophia, Clint, Sam, Jackson, Jude, Alivia

A cute but sad site: all of Amy's kids waving as we were pulling out this morning.

Although my boys wanted to get back to their house, they didn't want to leave. Jude spent the evening crying last night. He told me, "I want be at our house but I don't want to leave this house." His idea was to hook Amy's house up to our car and pull it home with us with, "...everyone inside and Henry(the dog) too!"

The 2 Amys!

What a great weekend. And yes, I did go to my conference!

Thanks to the Hetricks for the hospitality and friendship!