Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Conner's Visit


We Meet At Last!

Anna, Conner, Mom and Dad drove over from Moses Lake for a short visit this week! They got in Saturday and we didn't waste anytime getting to know our little man. Sunday J preached and they all got to be a part of that! It was very poignant to have our family join us and J honored Mom & Dad by thanking them for the Godly heritage they bestowed on him.
I'm so grateful they made the 8 hour journey! Shaun had to fly back to San D to finish out his final 2 weeks in Coast Guard and we missed him, but we are so blessed that didn't stop Anna from comin' on ahead! We'll get Shaun over here yet!
We had lots of floor time. Conner army crawls everywhere. We alternated middle names with him throughout the weekend ~ Conner "Poops-like-a-man" Oliver; Conner "Danger" Oliver; ... He liked James and Tofer best. He seems to know instinctively "I'm one of them!" and he watched them with great interest. Especially if Uncle Yimmy went into one of his special Arias.
We did Frogmore ~AGAIN! It's just such a great communal meal! Mom bought a special wine (viognier from hermit crab vinters) that perfectly set off the seafood and oldbay seasonings. Later we played Apples to Apples and teased one another mercilessly.
I would go so far as to say that family has to be the greatest invention of all time. God fleshed out in love and relationship, laughter and tears, hugs and kisses...
It's just plain awesome.




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4 comments:

Shaun and Anna said...

Ahh the memories! What a great entry. Thanks again for having us! It was such a blast! Anna
PS: Socks and underwear ARE fabulous and VM rules! Thought you might agree!

Deeapaulitan said...

Pound and Explode, Dude, it's still the thing ~ Even IF VM is history!

naomi said...

looks like lots of fun and i think that connor definitely resembles james!

Deeapaulitan said...

Conner looks almost exactly like his daddy! He does have some of the Paul Boy expressions though.

We're missin' them so much already.