This has been a great week thus far. Lisa (my big sis) and her boys arrived Monday afternoon to spend their spring break week with us. Our kids have been counting down the days to when their cousins arrived and we've had a great time already with still two complete days ahead (which was a good consolation to Emerie when she went to bed wanting to know when 'tomorrow' would be here).

We had been doing some yard work over the weekend, so we had a good stockpile of sticks & leaves to build a campfire with. Our neighbor had also cut down his probably 300+ yr old beech tree down the week before (it's been slowly dying) - so we had plenty of wood to build with as well. We built a fire & roasted hot dogs & s'mores on Monday. It was supposed to rain today, but we were pleasantly surprised that the weather was pretty mild & overcast, but with little to no rain. The girls (Andrea, Lisa, and, I suppose, Emerie as well) & the (rest of the) kids took advantage and spent some time playing at a local park before stopping by Dairy Queen for some ice cream treats.

We've been snapping some good pictures that I hope to get posted on our Flickr page before the week ends.

PS - We had fun watching American Idol with Lisa tonight (her first time). Blogged about it on my Gladeville blog here if you want to read: American Idol Newbie & Elliott's New CD