Visitors!

My mom and Uncle Jim spent the week with us, which, as usual, was great fun. There are so many nice things about moms, like how they hem your pants for you (Jason asked if I was running a sweat shop) and tell you that you look pretty in the dress you want to buy and let you crawl into bed with them to watch a movie and take you to lunch at Chili's where you always share chocolate molten cake. I think Jason gets neglected when my mom is here because I feel the need to squeeze every last drop out of our time together. (It turns out he doesn't really mind a little time to himself.)

One of the highlights of the trip was going to see "Little Shop of Horrors" at Ford's Theatre. If you know my mom, you can imagine how she reacted when she heard the name of the play, but she'd been wanting to see a show at Ford's Theatre for years, so she let it slide! Fun, fun.

On Monday night, we got to go watch Jason play hockey at the really reasonable hour of 7:30 (instead of the usual 11:30 pm). It's fun to see how much better he and his team have gotten since they started playing together!



Mom and Uncle Jim spent their days on the Hill, meeting with Members of Congress to try and garner support for the work that Expansion International is doing with internally displaced people in Kenya (remember these folks whom we met while we were there last summer?). It was really exciting to see how God really did go before them and prepared the hearts of the right people--they were wildly successful, so good to watch!

Such a fun trip and what a good time we had together!