My Hailey and her boys came over for the day today, which is always awesome. I’m not very subtle about that, and I don’t really think I need to be. They are like family, and fit right in! Its exciting for me to see Dekker stare after Grady and get excited instead of being afraid. And he loved Zaden, and shrieks and points every time he crawls or pulls up. This all gives me hope that Dekker won’t always be as shy and cautious as he is now. The boys do great together, to a point where Deks bawls his eyes out when its nap time. Usually nap time is a fun, celebrated event, but not when those boys are over! He doesn’t want to miss a thing. I don’t blame him.
While Hailey and I caught up and chatted the afternoon away, Brady was outside working on his van. We recently diagnosed the grinding sound from his van to be from a bad bearing. And yes, I say “we” because we researched it together. We both went outside and wiggled the front tires and the drivers side tire had tons of play. So just to be safe, yesterday he purchased bearings for both sides and rented a mondo socket set. This morning was when he had started work on the van, and accidentally stripped a bolt. So after Hailey and the boys were over and we had all had lunch, he headed into the city and bought a bolt remover set. That thing will come in handy I think! As soon as he arrived back, he was back to work, and the remover worked like a charm.
However, the bearing change did not. Sigh. He drove around the block to the familiar grinding sound. It was sooo discouraging. Three hours down the drain with the problem not fixed. After taking the other side apart, he found the grinding sound and changed out that bearing in one hour! Also swapped out a couple of filters and the van a/c even works again! Success for him, and very successful visiting for Hailey and I. We had lots of catching up to do, and got a good chunk of it in. When two of the three boys were sleeping, we quickly put supper in the crock pot and spent the rest of the afternoon talking. I feel like we could just talk all day. And we did. And it was awesome. We never seem to run out of conversation.
When all the boys were up and Brady was washed and happy with his van, we sat down and stuffed our faces with honey chicken on rice and cucumbers. It was super good if I do say so myself. They all left relatively quickly after supper, just for the sake of the long drive home and not wanting to get smoked by deer on the highway. It was a really, really nice visit. We love our friends! It helps when the kids are so photogenic…..
When we were officially company-less, we went out on the deck so Dekker could get some sun and we could water the garden a bit before bed. Anyone want to join him?
Then cuddles and a bath for me! Snack tonight… perhaps a nectarine? Yum.
