February 21 = Pops Birthday

Today was Pops' birthday!  The kids weren't awake when he had to leave for church but they'd make up for it later.  My brother had texted last night and asked if there was room for two more people in church- there was quite a group of family and friends coming over for birthday festivities.  I knew Matt has been missing the kids- his schedule hasn't been working out to where he can come up so he hasn't seen them since Christmas- so I asked if he'd want to hang out with the kids during church.  The kids have been loving playing outside because it's finally above freezing!  So I thought it would be a good way for he and Grace to get to see the kids.  They brought 34 books for Liam and Malia from the used book store in Mebane.  Here's Grace and Liam at an impromptu story time!

We wanted to get a picture of Matt and Grace with Liam and Malia but that didn't work out- we had to settle for one child at a time:

I'm so upset that I don't have any pictures from any other part of the day because it was such a good day!  We went back to Grandma and Pops' house after church and Zachary's Nana, Aunt Mary and Uncle Tim were there as well as two members of Pops' last church (who I adore), Will and Ron, were there with Will's mom.  The kids napped for most of lunch so we got to enjoy a delicious meal and Liam woke up in time for cake!  There were lots of great conversations and lots of jokes and laughs and love- it was just a great afternoon.  And then Grandma got to spend some more quality time with the kids outside while we got ready to go.  Describing the ride home would taint this otherwise super positive blog post so I'll leave that out- I'll just say Malia hates riding in the car and that we were thrilled to get home.