The Halls had another jam packed weekend full of friends and festivities. On Friday, after work I sped home to Mill Creek to ready the homestead for girls' night. Of course, I prepped too much food, but in the end it turned out to be a good thing considering I burned an entire batch of feta bruschetta. The ladies brought plenty of other appetizers to suffice and we enjoyed an evening of margaritas and pina coladas (with an occasional mocktail for Laura and I) until well past midnight. Exhaustion eventually overcame us and the husbands called with an S.O.S.: "We're out of brownies and Barbie movies, are you coming home soon?" Charles and Bella had a father-daughter date to the movies and she came home talking non-stop about it!
Since this mama isn't used to late nights after a busy work week, I slept in (thanks to Charles and Bella) and then we proceeded to lounge in our jammies until the early afternoon. We eventually got dressed and headed out for some "back to school" shopping. After successfully replenishing Bella's wardrobe with better fitting fall attire, we headed onto Grandma Joan's for a birthday dinner for Josh, Melina, and Rico and into another late evening.
Sunday morning brought church and a great sermon about remembering that we are God-made, not self-made. That we are not self-made success stories, but rather, God-made. Great reminder that we should always point our blessings and successes toward God rather than ourselves. After church, we had friends and their 5 kids over for barbecue and football! Talk about a full house of kids. Bella has taken a particular liking to one of their kids, Brandon. They look for each other at church and then attack each other with tickles as soon as they can escape their pews. The kids must have run a thousand miles in our house!
After the game, our friends left and Charles headed to the office to get some work done and Bella and I were left to resume our Sunday evening routines.
Phew. Keep the busy weekends coming - I love it! This coming weekend brings a church conference on outreach (which I'll attend with Charles if we can get a sitter) and then another favorite fall fair: Issaquah Salmon Days. Love, love, love.
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