WillPower Visit!

We had the joy of having the Byers family visit San Diego at the beginning of August.  There was a MPS conference downtown that they tied into their visit but we know their real reason was to come see us :). We were fortunate enough to have them at our home for two nights before they headed downtown for the conference and thankfully we caught up with them the day before they left to run a 5K with them as well.  It was such a wonderful visit and brought so much happiness to all of us!  

We picked up right where we left off, which was April 2017 in Boston, which just seems crazy to think that it had been that long!!  Although I did get a quick visit with Val in February 2018 when she came to San Diego but other than that it had been way too long!  

Sweet boys!!  Hard to believe that they have been buddies for 7 years now!!  

Catching up with Val!  She's the best!!

Girl sleepover!

On Thursday they didn't want to travel too far since they had to be downtown by lunchtime so we took them over to the Westwood Club to play for a bit and then swam.  Sam stayed with us for the afternoon which was such a treat to spend some extra time with her.
I just love seeing how comfortable we all are around each other-you seriously would think that we see them daily with how comfortable everyone was with one another.  I loved it!!

Char rocking her new WillPower sunglasses from Auntie Val!

A Little Rock painting after swimming!  

And lots of fun time together!!

They were up and out of the house pretty early on Friday morning but thankfully we were able to snap a quick group shot before they headed downtown.  We are so thankful for their family and just have such a special place in our hearts for them.  

The 5K was early on Sunday morning so we made our way downtown and ready to run!  Rich had already run 15 miles super early that morning with his buddy so this was a cool down for him!!  Rich and I both placed 2nd overall for male and female so that was pretty neat-it was a small race but we were proud to represent WillPower!   My parents and Bubba and Hollie were there to cheer us on and to watch the kids which was super great of them and we loved seeing them there!  

Charlotte was ready to race, too!!

And, oh, the puppies!!!  At the race they had a large pen set up with therapy golden retriever and golden doodle puppies that you could go in and pet!!  The kids (and Hollie!!) didn't leave the pen for the entire time we were there!  They were all in love! I'm sure if you asked them they would tell you that this was the best race ever that they had been to for this reason!!

If they were for sale, we might have been able to convince Daddy to let us come home with one!  Good thing they were therapy dogs in training!  Ha!  

It was such a treat to have them visit us!  We are already looking forward to our next visit.  

We love the Byers!!