Getting ready for Dave

 Jerel's sister Karee & her family are coming up to visit us next month.  It's always fun to see them, and I especially enjoy when we are able to visit with just one other family--I feel like I'm able to get to know people better in smaller groups.  So while it's fun to have the whole bunch together (Jerel's side is close to 30 people now) I also enjoy seeing them separately.

Lucky for us, we live where there are delicious blackberries, and Karee's husband Dave loves them, therefore they come to visit us!  We all politely pretend they've come because they miss us, but we secretly know it's just the food they've come for.  Which I am actually fine with because then we get to join them on their eating adventures.

In preparation for Dave's arrival we've been testing out some local pizza restaurants.  This may seem fun, but if you have any familiarity with Jerel's dislike of driving downtown you'll have a different view.....Luckily, despite his predictions, we have actually made it to each desired location, and we have in fact found parking, and none of the trips have ended up turning out to be a disaster.  (Okay, so once we didn't get home until close to 9, which is almost a disaster with kids as young as ours.)

Anyway, we've selected our favorite (Apizza Scholls, which is not the one in these pictures) and hope we can go there with the Brightons when they visit.  Then come home and have some blackberry cobbler a la mode......