First visitors from California!

This Sunday, our sweet friends, Peter and Veronique Guy and their 3 boys are going to come spend several days with us in our home in Charlotte. We are so looking forward to spending time and catching up with them. It has been 6 months since we last saw them at Noel's wedding in Los Angeles.

I met Veronique Guy through my midwife, Donna Barlow, who is Veronique's sister-in-law. Jerome (Veronique and Peter's oldest boy) was barely 2 years old and Kyla was only a few months old at the time. I had been praying for a close friend in Los Angeles who had a baby and who could walk through this journey of motherhood with me. God answered that prayer by letting our paths cross.

Our friendship grew while our husbands, Peter and Peter, went to school at Cal State Northridge. I would drive up with Peter and drop him off at class and then Kyla and I would drive to Simi Valley and spend the late afternoon with Veronique and her boys. We would have tea and sit outside watching the kids play. She would so kindly feed us dinner every week and listen to whatever I had to say. Veronique is one of the most positive, uplifting people that I know. Her optimism and joy truely comes from the Lord and it is very contagious :-)

Anyway, what started out to be just Veronique, myself, Kyla and Jerome, slowly blossomed into Kyla, Jerome, Seth, and Avery. Their littlest one, Ian, was born just before we moved to Charlotte and I was blessed to be part of watching him come into the world! He just had a birthday on the 23rd too! Happy Birthday, Ian!

Love you, Veronique! See you soon!