While in Indiana...

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

we had a date - a play date!
While in Goshen I was able to get together with three of my college girlfriends and their kids

Leah - recently moved back to the area with her husband and son
Rachel - was in town with her two girls from Florida
Sara - lives in town with her three girls
the four of us lived together in a house during college with eight other fantastic women!

To say it was difficult to take a picture of 8 kids and get them to all look at the camera at the same time would be a slight understatement  - here is the best one.


The three oldest girls had a blast playing dress up!


Lunch time really is the best time!


Sara has a great play ground in the back yard which of course all the kids LOVED and now Audra and Phoebe are begging for one.


Baby Samantha is the newest member of the Chupp family and she is the cutest three week old

While we don't have the opportunity to get together as often as we would like we have a great time when we are able to be in town at the same time.  I am really looking forward future play dates and I hope that next time even more of the Shoup Ladies can join us!

While in Indiana...

Monday, November 2, 2009

we played in the leaves...

So my sister and her husband are finally in their new house which made this visit a particularly exciting one.  One of the best things about their new house is the green space - well really the trees. On their property they have 40, 40+ foot tall trees!  So while we were there we helped them rake up a TON of leaves.

Audra L O V E D playing in the leaves! Once a big enough pile was made she took a running leap and had herself a fantastic time!

Phoebe was another story...
She would not jump in and when I offered to jump in with her she would not have it so...
I just stuck her in the pile and let her figure it out from there


At first she just stood here but then...

In the end our leaf raking earned us all "allergy issues" but the fun was SO worth it!

While in Indiana...

Sunday, November 1, 2009

we went to the park...

27 and still a kid at heart!

I loved that Phoebe found a Jayhawk to ride on - seriously a Jayhawk in IN - what are the odds?

Even Anna got in on the action!
It was super cute to see how excited Phoebe and Audra were that Anna could play on the ride with them!