Matthew and Sophie sitting in a tree...

We were in Portland this last weekend visiting some really good friends, Eric and Elly. I must rewind to explain this post a little better. Eric and Chris are best friends and met in dental school. Elly and I hit it off and we have been really close ever since. They are currently living in Portland while Eric completes his last 3 years of Oral Surgery school at OHSU. (He's REALLY dumb;)) Anyway, we have met each other's families and grown really close over the years. In December, Eric's dad passed away and we went to his funeral in Missoula, MT. I asked Elly if there was anything that we could do to help out and she asked if her sister, Elyssa, husband, Mike and their two daughters, Maddie and Sophie, could stay with us for the night so they didn't have to make the long drive from Seattle to Missoula all in one day. We had met them several times and of course we said it would be fine. Little did we know we would be making a love connection. They got to our house late that Friday night and Matthew was already in bed. We woke up early had breakfast and caravanned to Missoula. At the service, and at the after reception the kids played and played together. Sophie is 6 and Matthew followed her around with puppy dog eyes. When we got in the car to go back to the hotel, Matthew said "Mom, Sophie is SOOOO beautiful!" Chris and I were totally cracking up! We told Mike and Elyssa and they thought it was hilarious as well. They sent us a school picture of Sophie that is hanging on our refrigerator and we have become facebook friends. Well we decided to go see Eric and Elly this weekend for their son's 2nd birthday. All of Elly's family came down for the party and Sophie was there. Matthew was sooooo excited to see her and they just played and played again! It was really cute to see him with her and play more with the "big kids" than the 2 year old babies. I only took one picture the whole weekend and it was of Sophie picking up Matthew! Although it was a long drive, it was really fun and worth it to spend time with our friends!!! I am saving these pictures for the wedding slide show! haha