Sunday, April 10, 2011

Noah and Matteo visit!

The bad news: Japan was hit with a major earthquake and tsunami a few weeks ago. Besides widespread destruction to many of the northeastern areas, damage to a nuclear reactor plant threatened radiation poisening to the entire country. Our friends in Tokyo, the Briscoe's, opted to take advantage of the voluntary evacuation offered by the US. They flew to Chattanooga, TN (5 1/2 hours away from us) to be with family there.
The good news: We got to have Noah and Matteo spend the weekend with us!! Last Thursday, JoAnn and I both left our places at the same time and 2 hours 45 minutes later met in a little church parking lot off the side of the highway in Nowhere, Alabama. Noah and Matteo jumped out of their car and into ours. JoAnn and I spent 10 minutes catching up and then turned around and went back to our respective homes!
Bryce and Jared were thrilled to have the Briscoe boys for the weekend. They stayed up late playing video games, basketball outside, and paintball in the forest. Today we all went to church together and then Craig took all four boys on the long trip back to that little church parking lot in Alabama!
We pray for all the people in Japan and for a country that we visited and fell in love with last year!


Bryce and Noah - padded and ready for paintball action!



Matteo tries to hit them as they run through the forest from one side to the other.




Matteo and Jared get hit on their turn -- once is enough!

3 comments:

Karen said...

So basically they take turns being the moving targets? =) Jordan has really gotten into air soft guns, and he and his friends like to set up something similar. =)

Reeses Pieces said...

I loved reading about your Spring Break. You guys were busy. I didn't know you could take Cowboy Stadium tours. It looks HUGE!!! How fun. So we did the whole Bourbon St. experience and I felt like I had to just keep looking forward haha. Just glad Carson wasn't with us that night. I bet your boys are loving having the Briscoe boys in town. I love the paintball pics. I've been told several times by guys in the ward that Dave needs to hop on that bandwagon :)

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