We have had a great week so far! It's been busy. We spent some time working on the church: painting, reorganizing and cleaning, but it was well worth it and things are looking good! We have also had many events going on this week: small groups, cookouts, dinners with friends, etc, but all has been wonderful and well worth it.

We are getting ready to take off for Kiawah in South Carolina with Jordan's side of the family. Which, by the way, today is his mom's birthday!!! I need to give a HUGE HUGE HUGE Happy Birthday to Hope!



She is an amazing wife, mother, grandmother, friend, and everything else!! I love her with all of my heart and am so thankful to have her in my life! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to an amazing woman!

Hope & Steve took off driving yesterday, Erin, Dan & Hopie will take off today, and Jordan and I will take off on Sunday right after church. We all have about a 10 hour drive ahead of us, which I am actually looking forward to. I LOVE long drives with my husband. No one else to interrupt (except those stinkin' cell phones- haha) and just me and him- chatting, listening to music....I cherish these times before there are kids in the backseat....we all know that will change things immensely!! :-) But, nonetheless, we are thrilled to get to see them and very much looking forward to it.

In the meantime we have a busy weekend ahead of us until we take off, so we'll be buckling down and getting things done until then.

B-day Fantasmo

Yesterday was just great. It happened to be my birthday- AND the superbowl!! How much better for me does it get. The day went something like this:

-Woke up, had a nice relaxing morning. Got to sleep later than usual b/c we have gone back to one service at church so I no longer have to be there at 7am....it was 8:30 instead.

-Had a great in some ways, sad in some ways service at church (we have some families leaving the church, so it's difficult to say goodbye) All in all, it was a great morning and good connections!

-Went to lunch with my honey at Moe's and had a great connection with someone we ran into there...love how God works!

-Stopped by Publix to pick up a couple of things....had another great connection with a couple Jordan knew from a previous job- found out they moved into the neighborhood next door...pretty cool....again- so cool how God works!

-relaxed until Robby & Ferris arrived- had fun chatting with them

-The Kellums surprised me (I was hoping they were coming, but didn't know for sure) to hang out for my b-day and watch the game

-Ian joined us, and we all had fun watching a GREAT game and eating yummy food!! (Menu: grilled shrimp, homemade guacamole, chili/cheese dip, homemade vanilla ice cream and apple pie, double tomato bruschetta)

-closed out the evening with the Kellums watching 'The Office."

Great day, great evening, and looking forward to a great and full week!