We still have some more boxes to unpack and many projects to do, but we are sort of settled in and ready to have guests.  So yesterday, Stuart and I hosted a house party to invite all of our local friends to pay us a visit.  We started preparing food and drinks on Saturday.  The boys were quite excited to have their friends over to play, and they started naming the people they know. 

     On Sunday while Connor was napping, I did some more food preparation and Stuart picked up the entrees.  Our friends slowly started coming in after 3pm, and within an hour, our house was full of people.  Logan and Connor helped showing our house to some aunties initially, then they started playing when more friends arrived.  Logan spent majority of the time playing with Colton, Rohan and Riley, later with Brandon too.  They ran up and down the stairs between their bedrooms and the living room playing with the inflatable swords.  At one point, I think I saw 5-6 swords fighting but fortunately no injury at all.  Logan had a blast; he got so warm and flushed that he asked Michelle once to wipe the sweat off his head.  Connor played with the boys with sword fighting sometimes; he also spent sometime with the girls, Bar, Raz and Mia.  He later told me that they were playing “night-night, baby, mommy and daddy”.  Once I saw him following Bar, he happily told me that “Bar is my friend”.  Connor was running around a lot and rolling on the ground too.  One time I was checking on him while he was playing with Mia, he said to me quietly “Momma, go away”.  Sad!  Connor also took a couple of breaks for food; since I was busy hosting, Connor enjoyed getting help from Michelle and Revital.

      Both Logan and Connor’s gangs hung out most of the times in their bedrooms, but for the rest of the kids, the game room was the place to be.  They all played very nicely in there with some parents supervising.  The rest of adults were all scattered in the kitchen, family room and the living room.  Stuart and I tried our best to go around the house to check on our guests and chat with them.  Shortly before 6pm, most of our friends began to leave.  By then, Logan came up to tell me that he forgot to eat.  So Rohan, Logan and Connor sat down to have some food and Riley and Mia joined them too.  Stuart and I finally sat down to have our dinner as well.  We all had a great time and this was a nice way to totally feel settling in into our new home.