Family and Friends

Good morning! Happy Friday to everyone. In the last couple of weeks we have had the blessing of seeing some family we love and miss, and getting together with some "friends" Tyson's age. Thought I would roll those photos into the same post!

Daisy and Andrew (Robin's sister and brother-in-law) are now living in Roseberg, Oregon, where Andrew is the head pastor at their new church. Between us being pregnant last year, and them moving a couple of times, we haven't seen them since last Thanksgiving!! They had never met Tyson, and we had never met the newest addition to their family: Miss Layla Farhat. FINALLY we were able to get together at Andrew's parents house and introduce the newest cousins!! We have missed Daisy and Andrew a lot, and even though this was a short trip, it was so wonderful to see them and will hold us over until we can spend more time with them around Christmas. Greg and Nina Miller (Daisy's sister-in-law and her husband) are also great friends of ours, and they just had their first baby, Ruby! It was such a blessing to have us all together under one roof even for a brief evening. We tend to take family for granted, and this night we were incredibly thankful for such awesome family relationships. Here are a couple of pictures!

The Schweens with the Millers, and new baby Ruby!!

From left to right: Paul/Sally/Stephen, Nina/Greg, Heidi/Tyson/Robin (holding new niece Layla), Andrew/Daisy/Miriam. So fun!

This week Tyson and I also had the privilege of getting together with some friends, and some play buddies for Ty! Lindsey Robison and Afton Vander Pol are two friends of mine, and are both new moms as well. Afton's son, Cooper, is exactly 2 months younger than Tyson. And Lindsey's daughter, Logan, is 2 months old now! We spend some time together at Afton's house, trying to keep Tyson from dominating all of the toys and banging things on the floor, and generally having a good time to laugh as new moms going through the same funny phase in life. Here are some pictures of the kids!

Cooper on the left, and miss Logan on the right!

Tyson exploring his new space at Afton's house.

...and standing up to anything he can get his sticky hands and feet onto!


All the kids playing on the floor! Well, Logan watched the boys do most of the playing...

Cooper doing his balancing act, Tyson trying not to freak about about being stuck between two little people, and Logan looking a little bit nervous about being next to two crazy boys.

Overall, fun times lately with family and friends! Looking forward to more of that with the holidays coming up. Now time to get ready for the weekend...we love having daddy home :)