Fall Fun 2015: Lahmeyer visit

While Ryan went on his annual trip to deer camp before Thanksgiving we got to enjoy a visit from Daicia and the kids. Aunt Amy stayed over too and it was so great to catch up as well as a life saver to have extra help with the kids - so it was a win win! 

We weren't sure how it would go with all the littles by ourselves but it turned out to be one of our best visits! 

Saturday we hit up Martin Nature Park after lunch at Hideaway (tried to hit some of the local great eating hot spots): 

Our College roomie weekends aren't quite as carefree with 5 littles in tow but something extra golden about watching the next generation friendships grow! 

Ava and Quinn are reaching a milestone where they are old enough to share a room. They played so hard they would crash fairly easily for bedtime, we would check in and hear sweet late night talking and story telling before they drifted off to sleep. 

This trip was also special because Daicia got to meet Penny!
 After we got the older kids to bed Penny would stay up with us for our usual late night chats, movie watching and snacking. Each night we would swear we wouldn't stay up so late but then 2:00 or 2:30 would roll around and we would find ourselves still up, some things still don't change with visits, unfortunately our wake up time must but still worth it to get in all our good chatting on all the topics we had been saving up. 

Daicia took some sweet pictures of the kids. 

In true Daicia style she planned a fun seasonal food art activity for the kids. 

Art is Ava's love language, she always enjoys a good "project". 

We also hit up Zorbas, did a make your own Pizza night and meet up for brunch with our other college buddies before they left town.

My dad and his college room mate always stayed in touch and some of my favorite childhood memories are some of our family times together, his daughter still one of my most cherished friendships even though we don't get to see each other as often as we would like these days. I love that Ava will have so many sweet memories of a similar type and with each visit we add more to her collection that I know she will treasure as much as I do.

Daicia thanks so much for braving the road and Dallas traffic to come see us, it was one of our fall highlights for sure! 

Till our next memory making adventure -