Day 2: The Meaning of my Blog Name!

This story is one of those family legend stories that we all have.  It comes up quite often and I love it!  It all started back in about 2004.  Erin , Holli and I took a little trip back east to look at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, VA.  Holli was interested in going to school there and we wanted to check it out first.  We decided to fly into Philadelphia because the airfare was significantly less expensive plus our friends the Nielsen's lived there at the time and we wanted to spend some time with them.  We had a great time in Philly!  The Nielsen's were great hosts, taking us around to see all of the sights that up until that point I had only seen in the movie National Treasure!  A little background about the Nielsen's, we had lived in the same ward years before and Holli and their son Andrew were born just 10 days apart in 1987.  Sometimes you make friends that no matter how far apart you are, you can just pick right back up where you left off...this is how it is with us and the Nielsen's.  Janet and Keith have three children which I like to call the "miracle children" as Janet and Keith were told they would not be able to have children.  Well, Andrew, Lindsey and Kaiden would be proof that the Drs. were wrong !  Kaiden is  quite a bit younger than the other two kids so he didn't know us as well.  They had been living in PA for a couple of years at that point. 
On our trip, Kaiden was simply smitten with Erin and Holli!  He had to sit by them on the train, hold both of their hands as we walked around the city and sit by them at lunch!  It was soo darn cute. 

That night while Janet was putting Kaiden to bed, he told his mom: "I love Dobby's sisters".  We laughed so hard when she told us.  So from then until now, some people (usually Holli's friends) call me Momma Dobby.  Hence, the title of my blog "Dobby's Delights".  Now isn't that a simply sweet story?!