Midwest comes West

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We were so happy to have Andrea and Grant in town this weekend.  We all got to spend so much quality time together and had fun just hanging around and catching up.  As everyone probably knows, I am not a phone person.  So with that in mind I feel truly fortunate to have so many good long-distance friends who can just pick up with me where we left off last.
Posing pretty at Terranea.  The girls and Kieran all went to Terranea on Saturday afternoon for some walking and a nice sunset meal while Matt and Grant went to the Dodgers game.

Kieran giving Lily an adoring look on our walk.

We went to Liz's for brunch on Sunday and ended up staying the whole day.  The kids goofed around at Liz & Kieran's backyard almost the entire day!  We were cracking up at how much fun they had just walking around, making up games.

Kieran was a little unsteady on his feet but that didn't slow him down!  He was so happy to be in the mix with Lil.

Practicing her light saber fighting with some shrubs.

Trying out his new chair from IKEA.  Liz's mom had ordered it for him and Grant and Matt put it together while the ladies got our nails done.
We rounded out the weekend with dinner at Dominick's last night.  Kieran is getting so good at talking. He was saying all of our names and was even trying out sentences like "That's a bird" and "Nessa Lily Mama!"  We were all sad to say goodbye to Andrea and Grant but happy that the next time we see them there will be another little girl in their family to visit with.

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