Farewell to our Basque daughter

Well, we said good-bye to Ane early in the morning last Thursday, and now it's back to normal life around here. Normal life feels strange without her, though. We miss her! She wants to come back next year, and we're hoping she does. Until then, we'll keep in touch over email, Skype, and Facebook.  Having her stay with us and become a part of our family was an amazing experience. We're so thankful God gave us this opportunity.

We've spent the last few days catching up on all those things we neglected while we were too busy having fun this last month--sleep, laundry, and house-cleaning. We're taking some time to decompress and then we'll try to get back into some of our routines.  I need to catch up on the blog, too. I have a lot more photos to post from all our activities.
Before Ane left she wanted to try some more cupcakes, so off to Bella Cupcake we went. We decided the triple chocolate was the best flavor that day (we tried 'em all!).

Teaching Jen and Leyre "Afghanistan," Ane's favorite new card game, at the park while the kids ran around.

We enjoyed our last dinner with Ane at Red Robin, and somehow Grant walked away with two balloons, instead of one.