Our Weekend with Caldwells!

When we lived in Provo we had the best next door neighbors you could ever ask for! Mike and Meghan Caldwell lived next door to us and we became fast friends with them (once we met and actually started talking quite a few months after we moved in). We hung out with them most weekends and a lot during the week. Mike and Ben even devised a system on knocks on our shared wall that meant things like, "Can you come over now?" "Yes we are coming" "No- don't come yet" etc. It was seriously a blast living by them and we were so sad when we both moved away. Last weekend they made the trek up from California to visit us! It was fabulous to reconnect with our dear friends! Their little boy, Ethan, is 4 months older than Chase and we always joked that they would be best friends. Well, I think they are! They had a blast together, with the exception of both fighting over the "big truck". We swam, ate yummy food, had our traditional movie night after the boys were asleep, talked and talked, and just generally loved catching up with our old friends. 

And now- here are about 100 pictures of cute Ethan and Chase. These boys were seriously so funny together, it made my heart hurt a little that they don't actually get to live by each other and see each other all the time! We tried to do pictures of them together- and after taking about 200 pictures, we got some pretty cute and hilarious shots!

Most of which look like this- 

one boy looking at the camera, or in this case, no boys looking at the camera

 This one cracks me up-

you know the hilarious things parents do to get kids to look at the camera and smile-

it looks like it worked for Chase,

but Ethan is just embarrassed for the adults acting like monkeys.

 This is when we told them to hug-

obviously Ethan was a little more enthusiastic than Chase...

 ...which turned into this. 

Chase walking away while Ethan is still hugging him.

 Here is another shot at a hug...

 ...which ended here.

I thought for sure there would be tears,

but they were actually laughing! Sweetest little boys around!

We had such a blast with Caldwells! We miss them so much already and wish they could just move around the country with us and be our permanent next door neighbors forever!

PS: We made it to Florida! More on that later.