Weekend Update

It seems like our weekends get busier and busier all the time. Sometimes it's nice but sometimes you just want a day to spend at home. This one was another busy one, here are some of the activities...

Friday:
Jr. High/High School modesty/purity lock-in at our church

I was asked to help with this event but I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. Most of the girls were 11 or 12 and we had just a few high schoolers. It's been a LONG time since I've spend any amount of time with jr high girls and a much longer time since I was in jr high myself. It ended up being really fun. The ladies in charge had lots of activities planned. Hair stylist came to do hair, we painted nails, ate snacks, and had a fashion show. During the fashion show we talked about appropriate, modest dress and talked a little bit about appropriate behavior with boys. I left at midnight but everyone else stayed until 9 AM! Some of them slept for an hour some didn't sleep AT ALL. I heard many stories of the crazy things they did after I left. It got a lot more wild than my multi colored fingernails and clothes pin "up do". Our hope is that a seed was planted in these young girls and that they know some women they can come to if they are struggling with anything. Most of them do not have a lot of guidance at home so we're doing our best to fill in where positive influence may be missing in their lives.

Saturday:
Turned out to be less eventful than we thought. It was a very cold and windy day. There was an event planned here in town where horses were going to be pulling plows or something...I honestly don't understand totally the point of it, but Kirby had planned to take Clae to it because he loves stuff like that. Clae was looking so forward to it and talked about it all week. "is today the horsie thing?" So, finally the day came for the "horsie thing" and it was such an nasty day buy Kirby and Clae went because I knew we would never hear the end of it if he didn't get to go. So, needless to say, they only stayed about 45 minutes. When they got home I said "oh, you're home early" and Clae said, "yah, pecause I was cold, pecause I was freezin cold." It was funny.

We all had naps because mommy was still tired from the night before.

We ran and got some last minute groceries for a baby shower on Sunday.

Sunday:
Baby shower for Brooke and her baby girl who will be born December 1st.

There are 5 of us in our Sunday School class (Brooke included) so we threw a little shower for her during our Sunday School class time. This is her second baby so we didn't do an all out shower. It was fun, she apprecited it and was really surprised.

Church

Home for naps

Young married group at John and Karen's. We're going through the DVD series "Laughing Your Way to a Better Marriage" the speaker is Mark Gungor. This guy is FUNNY, but he also gets right to the heart of a lot of issues. There are seven couples is our group, we meet at our pastors house about once a month, eat a meal, watch the dvd, and have a lot of fun.

Monday:

Tried to catch up from the weekend.

I just got back from Bible Study where we packed 41 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child.

Now I'm going to clean the kitchen and go to bed.