Nashville

Way back before Christmas and before we could fathom the kind of ways the world would shut down, I conspired with Max's best friend, Richard to be able to plan a trip for Max to travel to visit Richard's family in Nashville. Richard and Marissa were totally on board and for Christmas, we let him know that he would travel to Nashville mid-May. Once the shut downs started happening we had nearly accepted the fact that this trip would not happen. But then things started opening back up in May. Max was still working from home and could work while on his trip and after some fancy airline switching Max was going to get to go on his trip and even had an extra day. 

He made sure to be extra safe on the flight and in the airport and while he was in Nashville, he spent the majority of the time at Richard and Marissa's house and worked on a bunch of woodworking projects.

He didn't take a lot of photos and I occasionally got some marco polos of projects Max and Richard were working on. They did do some long bike rides, went to eat some southern BBQ, went on a hike, made some projects by wood turning and using the glow forge and even watched the new Little Women movie. It was a joke that they had a slumber party in high school and watched the old Little Women movie and they may have been teased about that by myself in the past. haha!     

Anyway, here are some of the few pictures Max sent me, 

 

And here are some of the many projects he made. He designed a little sign for each of our boys and took great care in the details for each boy. Each part of their sign is a part of their personality. 

HE also did some wood turning and made some bowls and a rolling pin. Marissa made me some earrings. And it was like Christmas when we got to pick him up from the airport. We are so grateful for Richard and Marissa's many years of friendship and their hospitality in housing Max for a week. It was a wonderful time for him and probably the best gift he could have received as it wasn't something he would do for himself but is something he's wanted to do ever since these friends moved away. 

And while he was gone, I found out the gender of our baby #4 and I kept it a secret from him for 4 DAYS! I know I wouldn't have been able to keep it a secret if he had asked me about it but he didn't even think to ask because we both thought the phone call would come a couple days later than it actually did, closer to when he was coming home. I found it was hard to not tell him since I needed to process the results but I wanted to tell him in person. So I ended up telling one friend and she helped me process it. 

This video is so funny to me. It was around midnight on the evening he got home from the airport. He had no idea I had kept the secret for 4 days, (I really am horrible at secrets) I think he needed to process this for a bit as well. HAHA!