Not Much To Report

I floated along for a couple days, reliving the "one enchanted evening" we had last Friday, but now we're back to reality, doing the dailies.

Over the weekend we had a house guest, Will Martin, who is Matt Rowley's friend from college. He is planning to come to Jacksonville when Matt and Jen do to help start the church and was in the area looking for potential housing. He stayed with us the weekend and left today.

This week our church is having VBS, but there wasn't going to be a nursery provided and that, combined with the fact that Josh has a hard time making it home by 6, let alone earlier to be able to eat dinner and make the 25 min drive to church in time for 6:15, meant that we wouldn't be able to help out this year. :(

On Wednesday some photos should be ready for pick-up at Walmart. I don't think I mentioned on here that I took Noah to get his picture made for his One Year Birthday. I'm excited to see how they turned out.

Next week my friend Carrie is having her baby shower at church, and I am in charge of games (!). Anyone with good, FUN baby shower games is invited to post ideas in my comments section. I've gotten several good ideas online and will probably choose a couple of those unless someone has a better idea.

Also next week we plan to head up to Greenville for a friend's wedding. Heather Johnston, a childhood friend of Josh's, is getting married on the 8th. After the wedding weekend we will Lord-willing be heading up to the Wilds for a week of Family Camp. Melanie and her family and church teens will be there, as well as the Bennetts and their family and our church teens. This is a very exciting time ahead, but we are dreading the 7hour car ride with Noah. He barely makes it the 25 minute ride to church without fussing, I can't imagine how the 7 hour ride will go! Ugh.

So that's what's going on these days in case you were wondering!

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