All the fun!

    Charlie is having so much fun with her cousins and is constantly in a state of joy or true anxiety and sadness. She bounces from happy they're here to devastated that they're not staying forever. She's going to have to move to Idaho with them as well as Smalls. I've never witnessed such an emotional mess of a girl!

Learning to adapt to all the fun you can have in America.

    Carter went to his Jr. Prom and had a pretty great time with his cute date, Anika. He was beyond self conscious about his hair but it is what it is. He did get a hair cut two days later and looks a ton better but why would he get a hair cut before prom, that would be dumb.

 

Buddies and neighbors, Jethro and Caden.

Yummy Costa Vida in the Johnsen's backyard.

 

Great group of friends.

    Back to cousin fun!

Twinning!

    These girls had a lemonade stand and because we live in such a great neighborhood they cleaned up, making $33 in 45 minutes! (The Australian accent didn't hurt their sales either.) Kirra sent most customers away with a "Have a lovely day." Adorable!

You have to have a lemonade stand if you live in America.

It was one customer after another.

 They even talked siblings into buying.

More twinning.

    And the ultimate welcome to America was planned just for the Atkinson's (maybe!?), Hope of America. It was McClane's turn to participate and it was a great night and it was made even better thanks to a secret parking lot I was turned on to. 

 

Red like his oldest sibling was many years ago.

This is such a fun program.

 McClane is the fourth row up, middle section about 5 seats in. You can see him, right? 

    So that's just a bit of the fun we've had all week. We are so happy to have Jackie, Ben and the girls here and we wish they could live next door but we're happy, enough, to have them as close as Idaho and we're going to enjoy these last few days with them.