Shan's Visit

As a mentioned before, Shanna came to visit during her spring break last week. This has been the longest we have ever been apart! We have always lived close and done the same things. ( Same hobbies, same best friend, same college, same roommates, same crushes ;) , same degree, married in the same summer, same grade taught in the same city, need I go on?) But since we did marry different husbands moving to Kansas separated us for the first time. So we were way excited to be able to spend the week together. This was also the first time I got to be around her to see her prego! It was really exciting! (She is also having a boy-of course!)

It was so nice to be able to have someone laugh at my jokes, know exactly what movie I was quoting or not have to explain my thinking about something or why I thought something was funny. We just think alike. Since we think similar we can bounce around to all sorts of subjects. Cole had a hard time keeping up. Since Shan and I have the same sense of humor we find the same things funny. Cole said he has never seen me laugh as hard as I did last week. We have a good time together.

You can't have your twin sister come visit without any good twin stories. Since we have been living apart for a while we have not gotten the normal stares and mix ups so it was kind of fun to get that again all week. Here are my favorites:
- Cade was so confused at first. He would just stare at her the whole first evening. Probably didn't help that we showed up at the airport wearing the same large chunky necklace.
- The little 3 year old that lives above us was over. He came up to Cole very confused and said, "Where did you get two mommies?"
- Shanna is very obviously pregnant. So when she walked into church there were some confused faces. One man leaned over to his wife and said, " She's pregnant?! We just had dinner with them a few weeks ago! How did we not know?" HAHAHA!
- Several people said hi to her and were not expecting to see me around the corner. People have some very humorous reactions sometimes.
-The stake president's 10 year old son ran into this dad's office after seeing us and said, "Dad! There are two Sister Ratcliffes!!"

We had fun. People's reactions never get old!

We didn't really do a ton of cool exciting things but it was just nice to spend time together. Here are some clips from the week.

Cole had a couple of intramural softball games we went and watched...well we did a little more playing with Cade than watching! (Do you know who is who?)

Apparently the dirt was way more exciting than watching daddy play.

(I am kissing Cade the other two are Shanna.)

We spent a lot of time making Shan's baby announcements. We have fun being crafty together. We always seem to do something crafty when we get together.

We took Cade on some walks and let him play in a big open field which he loved.

Thanks for coming Shan!! Cade and I loved having somebody else to play with! We can't wait for Cade's cousin to come!