Suprise Visitors

Last week my brother Ben and his girlfriend, Ruth, came from Delaware/Pennsylvania to visit my parents for a few days and go to a Clemson game. While they were in the state they, and my parents, came to Columbia for a visit and for Ben and Ruth to meet JP (and so Ben could work on rubbing the hair off of JP's head). I just told the girls that Gran was coming so they were super surprised when everyone else showed up! They had face timed with Ben and Ruth a few days before so they were already acquainted with Ruth and had already decided they liked her. We let Ben and Ruth ring the doorbell when they got here and the girls were so surprised to go to the door and find their Giant!
We so enjoyed their visit and, since the big girls were out of school because of the flooding, they got some extra visit time!

We enjoyed meeting Ruth and she made friends for life when she brought a box of books to read to the girls and then spent a fair amount of time reading to them.

The girls were also thrilled to get lots of outside time with Uncle Ben pushing them on the swings! Books and swings...pretty much the way to win their hearts!

JP was mildly impressed with his visitors. He slept through a lot of the visit.

Bonding with Grandaddy.

I figure just give him a few months and he'll be highly impressed that he has a giant for an uncle, especially if Ruthie has anything to do with it. She thinks Uncle Ben is pretty fantastic.
My mom brought dinner for all of us and my dad made homemade ice cream. It was an all around great day!

Grandaddy had to get a haircut while he was visiting.