A week of first's

Our daughter and her family came in for our oldest grandsons 4th birthday all the way from the Washington DC area. They live in the town of Bowie Maryland so we haven't got to share in many of his special events in life. While here we had alot of firsts to happen. They flew into the Little Rock airport so we met them in Russellville @ Cracker Barrell to eat. On the way to our house Luke rode with Meega & Papa which is the first time he has ever got to do that. Since he doesn't live close by we don't get many of the simple pleasures like that so this was really a treat for us. We also had our first "sleepover" as he called it when he slept two nights in the bed with us. He also camped for the first time in our back yard with his Papa & Daddy. We took him to The Janet Huckabee Nature center where he fished for the first time with his brand new spider man fishing pole. He didn't catch anything that day but the very next day Papa took him and his Daddy out on the Paris city lake on his first canoe ride and he caught his first fish. A pretty good sized catfish which wieghed 3-4 lbs on his spiderman fishing pole. The only one who caught anything might I add. He had a great birthday which was military themed at his request and he got to spend the day with one of our local service men who gave up his saturday to make a little boys dream of spending his birthday with a real soldior in a real uniform. Thanks Sonny Watts for doing this for him. There was also many other firsts. Eli while visiting us said Daddy for the first time and the two oldest boys got to meet their new cousin Nathaniel. And Nathaniel got to meet Luke, Eli, Aunt Laura and Uncle Aaron for the first time. This morning was a sad day as we had to say goodbye when they drove away on the way to the airport. I don't think they seen me cry as I headed back into the house to put away all the toys once again untill they come back to Meega and Papa's once more. Or untill our little Nathaniel is old enough for us to once again get them back out. Yep it was a week of first. But I believe in prayer and I'm believing it won't be the last.