I think these photo booth strips taken at Ace Hotel in Portland pretty much sum up Days 10-12. My dear friend Bonnie and her daughter Venise were visiting over the weekend. Their visit started off with big hugs and hand holding and ended with even bigger hugs and more hand holding [and a bunch of tears]. It was a wonderful weekend of hanging out at the house with the kids watching Christmas movies [Day 10 advent calendar activity], decorating ornaments + making gingerbread houses [Day 11] and painting little wooden people [Day 12]. We also were able to take our LA girls to some PDX restaurants [Tasty N Sons, Little Big Burger, Toro Bravo, Screen Door] and enjoy some down time at Powells and Ace Hotel. Fun times with good friends, doesn't get much better than that. [I am in love with the way Bonnie documents life and you can see more photographs of her adventure in PDX here.]