Sarah and Hazel come!!

My sister Sarah and her baby Hazel came to visit us for a whole week!! Hazel was born 2 days after we left Utah last summer and we've been longing to meet her. Sarah and I have never had a one-on-one visit before since usually when we get together its in Utah and we're trying to see lots of family. We're so grateful Sarah and German were able to give us their time! All the kids came with me to pick her up so we had quite the carful. A few days later the kids made a duplos model of our airport experience, complete with Sarah walking down the gang plank with Hazel. 

Half of the time, Hazel and Max were moderately interested in watching each other and half of the time completely ignored each other. The big kids loved playing with Hazel.  Freddy even turned down a playdate with his best friend, Addie, to stay and play with Hazel. 

We went on a walk to Noxubee Wildlife Refuge and walked along the boardwalks. We even saw alligators! 

We went for a walk behind our fence amongst South Farm's horse and cow pastures.

She hung out with me everywhere and I LOOOOOVED having the company. We took Gwen to ballet and cheered on Charlie at one of his baseball games. 

 We walked around campus and surprised Chris' class, showing up with our babies and strollers and pretended to be the sub.  I loved having her come to church, talking with her while we did dishes, folded laundry, picked up the kids from school, made dinner, exchanged back rubs, and watched movies.  We ate out at Anthony's in West Point for the first time and ate real good southern food: including fried alligator meatballs, creamy cheese grits, fried chicken and catfish.  Our last day we ate at Little Deweys for some southern BBQ with fried okra, fried pickles and fried green tomatoes.  I love Sarah so much and we looked forward to this trip for so long. We'd call each other every few days just to give an update on the countdown of how many more days until we saw each other.  Sisters are awesome - especially my sisters.