busy as bees around here...

boy, christmas was over, new years was upon us & we've had a house guest since last friday from out of town (johny), so we've been busier than you could even imagine!... we've eaten out so much (taking him to out all time favorite restaurants), that i so long for a homecooked meal - even if i'm the cooker!... we've taken him to our church, the movies, to see around amish country, to work with spike 1 whole day seeing what spike does on a day in/day out basis, shopping at the mall for like 5 hours straight, visiting with several of our friends, to see kiara's new pre-school, which she started today, to the purdue campus (is there really any other university??), etc., etc., etc.... we've taken pictures galore & run his tail off, but he does seem to be enjoying himself, which's good... we're heading out tomorrow AM to meet up with yet more friends (guess i paid all these 'friends' good $$ to 'show up & pretend' while he's here, huh?) & out to lunch... we're then heading to my parents house for the evening & he's spending the night there... he'll be returning to our house on friday afternoon where he'll pack up & get ready to head back home on saturday AM... we'll miss him when he goes, but have had a wonderful time while he's been here & for that i'm very thankful to have gotten this opportunity to spend it with him...