Our time with Anna!

After picking Anna up from the airport on Wednesday we headed out to Manatee Beach in Bradenton to play for a couple of hours. Leighton was a daredevil...wanting to run towards the water and enjoying sitting in the sand. Matthias was a leech...clinging to me or Anna, crying because the waves were too loud and the water too scary. It's continually amazing to me to see how opposite these twins are!
Leighton working on a puzzle...while cuddling one of her sweet puppies that she loves so much (thanks jenner!)
We had a great time with Anna this weekend. It was a little surreal to have her here, since she lived with us for 3 months last summer it felt so normal to have her around for these couple of days. The kids got some good playing time in with her and she and I had fun eating yummy salads for lunch and ice cream at night. It was hard to say goodbye to her this morning....it's always a little hard to say good bye to someone when you don't know when the next time you are going to see that person is. Anna leaves for Cameroon exactly a month from today! I am very excited to see how God is going to work in and through my dear friend in this next season or her life.