A Blast from the Past

What a great last few days it has been! We've had a couple of blasts from the past around here. First off, on Thursday Greg and I headed to Charleston, IL to visit some of our favorite friends: the Stowell Family! The Stowells were my adopted family while I was at graduate school, and I'm so glad that we have stayed in touch. It was wonderful to see them again!

Here we were in 2008 just before I left Charleston.

And here we are four years later in 2012--everyone is all grown up! We had a great time eating Thai food and catching up on everything. I couldn't believe how grown up all of the kids are! It will be sad to be really far away from them when Greg and I move to Utah, but hopefully we'll be able to visit each other every so often. It was SO FUN to see them!!!

Greg and I also had to stop by campus to visit the bookstore, and of course I had to get a picture by Old Main. I really did enjoy my time at EIU. We also stopped by to see two of my great professors Mr. Riccio and Dr. Small. We had a wonderful visit with them.

On our way home we saw something that we hadn't seen in a long time: rain and a rainbow! Too bad none of the rain fell in Springfield--everything is SO dry here.

And then this weekend we had another blast from the past when our two wonderful friends David and Teal came to visit! They were in St. Louis for a wedding, so they swung up to Springfield before flying back to Washington. We were able to get together with a lot of our fun Lincoln Home friends and reminisce about the good times that we had when we all worked at Lincoln Home (before things went downhill).

We went "Looking for Lincoln" at the giant Scheels store in Springfield. :) It was great to see David and Teal, and we're glad that we'll be a little closer to them when we move to Utah!