With Christy and Amy living in Pa., any time we want to see them, it's a trip to get there, then spending several hours with them. Those times are always fun and special. On the other hand, it's a treat to have Dawn living close by and it seems like we see her often. But those times are usually not quality times, since we see each other at church or when I'm babysitting. So I got the bright idea to invite Dawn, Tommy and Kira to dinner so we could sit and visit. Then hopefully, we can do it somewhat regularly. Our first attempt was Friday evening. I made baked ziti for the main course, and also had Dawn's favorite cookies. After we ate, we sat in the front room and played with Kira while the adults chatted. Kira was having fun with the "turn-around" doll I made. She was funny trying to put on a sad face. And she loved being silly with Pop-pop.
Saturday was a real conversation piece. Snow on October 29! 
Whoever heard of such a thing? Well, it made for some pretty pictures with the white snow against all the fall leaves. The next day on Sunday was even more beautiful with a brilliantly blue sky.
Andy had planned to have Saturday as his first day for setting up Nativity scenes. He had told his helpers that they would do it rain or shine and was at the church by 7:00 am. He actually had 20 guys show up. It was raining hard before turning to snow about mid morning. I kept thinking of him and mentally telling him he should just stop and come home. He did come home around 11:00 am which was good since it kept snowing/raining all day. I think we got less than an inch of snow while Pennsylvania got 6 inches in some areas. But we had 2 1/2 inches of water in the rain gauge.
Amy gave us a call on Saturday afternoon to ask a question. So on the spur of the moment, we decided to take a trip up on Sunday afternoon to see her and her family. We went to the 9:30 service on Sunday, came home and had lunch, then left. We got to her place by 2:00 so we had a nice long visit. Andy was able to build a snow man for the kids. Joanna kept calling the snow man, "Daddy." It was somewhat unusual that our Sunday was free because usually Andy has choir practice at 4:00 and we have a Bible study for older singles at our house at 5:30.
Then yesterday Kira came over to spend some time with me because Dawn wanted to be with Tommy while he had his dr. appointment. She is talking a lot and is such fun. She took a 1 hour nap, but the rest of the time was together time. Isn't she just the cutest little police officer you ever saw!
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Nice shoes Dad!
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