Friday, May 9, 2008

We Visited Donger and Family

Merrit, Ollie, and I drove to Winston-Salem yesterday for a two-day trip to see our friends, the Hills.

"Donger" as she has lovingly been referred to (by me) since...oh, about seventh grade...flew in from California to visit her mom Candy, sister Dianne, brother-in-law Tim, and nephews, Evan and Eric. With her so close by, we just had to drive over and spend a couple of days catching up with her.

Here we are, hanging out at Dianne and Tim's house...














Dawn and Ollie meet for the first time. :-)


















Eric is usually "the baby"...but he handled having Ollie horn in on his territory quite well!


















Candy LOVES babies! Kiss kiss.













Ollie must just sense that he's in loving arms...he goes in for the snuggle right off the bat!


















Playing with his toes in his carseat.

We Spent the Night
Before we hit the hay, we squeezed in just a little more playing...













Candy and Ollie playing together.













In our PJs and ready for bed.

And the Next Morning We Picked Strawberries
All of us headed over to the local pick-your-own strawberry farm. Mmm...


















Evan and Merrit at the strawberry fields.


















Ollie just watched from the shade of his carseat.


















Merrit is an expert berry-picker; I'm sure he'll teach Ollie one day.


















For a kid, Merrit shows such discipline; he hardly eats ANY while we pick!

The best part was the hot-from-the-oven shortcake, fresh strawberries, and vanilla ice cream we all ate when we got back home.

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