Friends Old & New

It was a terrific day-100% across the board. And a full day to say the least! Em & B started off with their friend Kamryn's harvest birthday party this morning:

Then we had one of Mike's childhood friends, Mikel Poulsen & his family arriving here in town around noon! Mikel had emailed a few months back and asked if we'd like to come to dinner at their place. They live in Wenatchee & though we're close-we've never gotten together-not to mention, never met each others families or even SEEN him since high school! Long story short, we weren't able to make it the proposed weekend, so we rescheduled and invited them to a little fall/halloween dinner here in Ellensburg! Such great times-we really wished they lived closer so we could do this kind of thing more often. Mikel has an awesome family-2 sweet little munchkins, Ebbi & Nesse-and a beautiful, wonderfully personable wife, Marci. It was kind of humorous how close the personalities were between our kiddies-Ebbi is a lot like Em and Nesse has the same spunk as our Bryce!  :)

We started our afternoon by enjoying the harvest festivities at Dusty's Nursery & Pumpkin Patch. The sky was grey & it was drizzling, but those Poulsen's didn't give a hoot-I knew right away-these were MY KIND OF PEOPLE! ha ha ha.
The kids had a great time getting their faces painted, going on pony rides, petting the bunnies & goats...

 ...jumping off hay bale pyramids, sipping on cider & bee-bopping to the music.

We came back home and in between the princess dress up sessions, the kids helped make homemade noodles for Spaghetti. They LOVED it! Ebbi & Emma had 3 helpings each!

After dinner the kids went out to the porch and picked out one of our many homegrown pumpkins. Em & B gave the Poulsen kids a couple halloween friendship tokens (Mr. Pumpkin Head parts), and we decorated pumpkins together. It was great fun.

The kids jumped their jiggles out in the trampoline-rode the roller coaster backwards & played with EVERY toy imaginable in the bedrooms-they only stopped for a split second to shove in a halloween brownie bite before they hit the toys again. Good times.

I pulled out a scrapbook I had made for Mike years ago, and we found pictures of he and Mikel as kids. It was hilarious-the two guys had fun reminicing about old times. Time flew and before we knew it, they were helping us clean up to head home. We haven't had this much fun in......I can't remember. Hugs to the Poulsen's for a great afternoon. :) It was nice to finally meet Marci & the kids. I'd LOVE to spend more time with them. I just know we'd have a blast together!