Visit with Val

Last night, we were able to go see Valerie, Maddie and Mr. and Mrs. Briggs. Val and Maddie were at Pensacola beach so we wanted to take the opportunity to visit with each other. It is still a strange thought that they live in Cleveland, OH. We had a terrific time at dinner and Ava & Maddie had fun playing on the playground and in the sand. Getting a picture of us together was interesting. Ava just wasn't having it. So, this is the best we could do. I love neat coincidences and our surprise to Maddie turned out to be a fun one. I picked up a squirt gun made out of one of those noodles for the pool for her because when we were at the beach, every child had them. It was a spur of the moment idea. When Val saw it, she said that they had asked someone at the beach where they got theirs because Maddie wanted one. Little things like that are just neat to me. Here's a picture of Maddie hugging Ava after she gave it to her. We thought Ava would sleep on the way home considering we didn't get home until 10pm but nope...she was singing along to Mary Poppins the entire way.
Visiting with Val makes me miss college/dorm life a little bit. That was such an incredible part of my life and living with Val and Stacey was the highlight...oh...and meeting Kevin of course!