Smallish Visitors

We've had several visitors of the smallish variety here on the farm this summer. 

My niece Layla was receiving her temple endowment here in Logan. All of my sister Megan's kids were old enough to be there except for her two youngest boys, Gray and Bruun, so she brought them here for the evening.

They've lived in ID for years so, while I talk to Megan often enough that I sort of think we see each other regularly, in reality, we don't actually see each other very often and these younger kids haven't gotten to know each other as well as they should, so it was happy to have them spend several hours with just each other. 

The following week my friend Marilyn texted. They were coming up to Logan to take their older kids to a play, and could her two youngest, Gus and Clementine, ever possibly play here while the rest of them were at the play? 

We were delighted to have them.

Marilyn and I both have 10 children (three of them--Abe, Daisy and Goldie--given the same names long before we ever met one another). It has been such a blessing to be given such an excellent (can one use the word excellent without everyone thinking of "boiled potatoes"?) friend who can relate so well to this wild life of mine!

She and Sam and the kids they had with them all stopped to visit for a bit after the play. (We've talked so much for so many years, about our families that, while her children don't know me well, I feel like I know them so well that I likely alarm them with hugs and cheek pinching and exclamations over how big they've grown. 

But it seems a lucky thing that I've seen Marilyn more since we moved to Logan--another hour further away from her than I used to be--than I ever saw her before!