Family Visiting from Florida

After spending a little over a week in Maryland, Daniel's brother, Josh, and his wife, Alisha, and two kids, Hannah and Drew (who are from Florida) followed us back home to the cold and snowy North. They were really hoping (even praying!) to see some snow while visiting. Well, God answered their prayers! That very next morning we woke up to snow!... and lots of it! It was like a winter wonderland! It snowed off and on all day long. We ended up getting about 8-10 inches! It couldn't have been more perfect. The kids (Josh, too, I think) were VERY excited to get outside and play. We have a good size hill in our backyard so the kids took turns going down in the sled. They all had such a great time!!

Here are some pictures of playing in the snow:

Waiting to go out in the snow!



Josh helping Drew.

Drew after going down in the sled! The snow was so fluffy it just sprayed the kids in their faces!

Rebecca had a great time in the snow too! She didn't want to leave!

Drew(3), Hannah(6), Abigail(3) and Lillian(4) stopping briefly for a picture.

Come on, Drew! Let's go!

Hannah and Lillian




Daniel and Josh got the kids to make a human chain and then they pulled them around on the wood floor. They did this for quite some time!

A few days later we took the kids to a nearby park with a bigger hill for sledding. They also discovered that you could go down the normal slide and ...

... keep going past the slide, fly off the edge of the sandbox, and continue on down the icy hill!




Here's Josh going down the slide on a sled and flying off the sandbox!

Walking on water!

Abigail and Daniel




Josh, Alisha, Hannah and Drew keeping watch over the ice fishermen in the big lifeguard chair.

We had such a fun time with Josh, Alisha and the kids... it was really hard to see them go! Alisha called today from Florida and mentioned it was about 70 degrees and that they even had their windows open! It was about 10 degrees here. Why didn't we go to Florida? Next time...

Thanks for coming Josh, Alisha, Hannah and Drew! We can't wait to be with you all again!