friends

There's nothing like friends.  People you enjoy spending time with- people that you love and love you.  We've been friends with "Julie and Bob" (Giulianna e Roberto) since Paolo ran into them in Salt Lake.  They're from Bologna and travel pretty often to the U.S.  Since we're living here we get to see them pretty often.  Our kids love them, and to be honest, we do too.  Their only granddaughter is off for the adventure of her life going to Australia, and so we got to meet her the other day.   It was fun.

 Speaking of friends, we ran into Elder Anderson again at stake conference in Venice this last weekend.  He finishes his mission in 2 weeks and it was nice to see him again!  We also had Jun in our car.  He is from China and was baptized a while back.  He's been back in Bologna for 3 days and drove up with us.

 She is about the cutest creature alive.  She's started walking with her chubby hands behind her back and it's so funny.

 The other day we had someone over and she apparently didn't want to be looked at, and seriously gave them the look of death!  I've never seen that face on her before.  Oh my goodness!

 Speaking of friends, Paolo is Jordan't idol and he loves being with Papa`.  The other day after vacuuming out our car, he was in the car for at least 15-20 minutes with daddy pretending to drive.  He pretended to drive to the baseball stadium, to play baseball with Papa` and then drive home.  Jordan was absolutely glowing, and I was so grateful for a dad that spends time with his kids!