Our kids are the BEST ever!!

Being gone for a month is a long time...and when it's so open-ended it seems even longer and crazier. But one of our awesome college students, Kristina, stayed in our house and took care of our two dogs and everything else for us. She did a fabulous job!! She even had the place totally cleaned and 'prettied up' for us. It was beautiful!

She and two of our other college girls, Ally and Tasha, totally redid Nathan's bedroom for him. They told us they were going to decorate the room but we were totally blown away. I can't say how impressed we were, or how loved we felt, or how blessed we know we are to have them in our lives. The pictures just don't do it justice...and my comments just don't do the girls justice.

You can see what it used to look like here...the pictures of his room are the guest room ones at the bottom. Wow - what a difference! What little boy isn't going to absolutely love, love, love this room?! The girls brought a friend's young son in to see what they'd done and apparently his jaw hit the floor in amazement...so I think we're good! :)

If you look carefully on the shelves you'll see all kinds of toys that they got, including a phonics program so he can learn english!

They even put his name in his play mat!

I can't describe how amazing the art is -- professional! It must have taken endless hours for them to do this...not to mention that they ALSO did Matt's room for him. His room has really awesome teenage boy stripes and they rearranged his furniture and hung some bulletin boards and did some other cool stuff. He loves it!!

I really could go on forever about it, but if you live nearby you'll have to come see it for yourself. We cannot wait for Nathan to see it - he is going to flip!

Kristina, Ally and Tasha - we love you guys SO much!!!!