I'm too lazy to dedicate a post to each happening, so instead, I'm just going to pull a brain-barf right here, and list all of the fun things we were up to this weekend, right here, right now...
1. Last week, one of our girls from church had a bridal shower and I took on the order for cupcakes with my cousin, so we got together on friday to bake. It was a fun day, especially since I don't consider myself a baker {it's more of a science than an art, and I'm definitely an artist: much more into improv than exact measurements} and we had Jus' cousins wife come over with her 2 little ones, and my 2 boys and cupcakes and dough and flour and baby food and toys and an incident involving some flames in the toaster oven {we bought a new one since then}...yes, this was all in one day. Nevertheless, it was fun. We laughed, we cried, we put out a fire...
2. This week, we prepped the house because we hosted a different bridal shower for my cousin on Saturday {yes, another bridal shower...trust me...more's a coming. There are so many people we know getting married this year...} and needed to get the house in order before saturday for those who needed to stay over {including tackling some projects along the way, i.e.: rearranging our pictures on the wall and putting up a photo collage, which I may discuss in a separate post} ...taking me to point #3...
2. The maid of honor and some of the bridesmaids and friends stayed at our house. Since then, some have left, but it was a packed house starting from thursday and will remain occupied until wednesday of this week. We love having people over and staying with us. I figure, we have a house with this many rooms, we might as well use it. In the meantime, Colin is loving the opportunity to sleep on the floor in our room. He only asked to get into our bed once =) I think he likes his space just as much as Jus and I do.
3. After we cleaned up and everyone left from the shower, the four of us went over to Jus' cousin's house with the kids {and some of the extra food from the shower} for our friends' birthdays and then we watched super 8, which someone told me was scary. But it wasn't. At all. But the night was fun. I love when we can just go to each other's place at night, put the kids down and just chill. #goodtimes.
4. Sunday was Easter Sunday at church. Lots of energy goes into that, and especially since it was Easter, we pushed it to the max. It was a GREAT morning though. I so truly love everyone at Lighthouse!! (www.lighthouselongisland.org) From worship to meeting people to the teaching to just everything...it was so nice. So it left us much more refreshed than spent.
5.Yesterday night, we held Easter Dinner at our house for the international students from our church who were at campus during their break. We were going to have a traditional dinner with ham and lamb and the works, but then one of the girls excitedly approached us, wondering if we were going to be having indian food. I wasn't thinking about it but, hey why not? Last time we hosted easter dinner, we made it an international easter dinner night and that was just so fun. So, why not something like that again? So we ordered in, {I made some veggies} and we both felt it was such a great decision and such a great night. I love the ethnic diversity that our church consists of and just getting to know more about each person and finding out more about their homes and their families and their own cultures; it's just been a very blessed and encouraging experience. I love that it's a small picture of what heaven's going to look like. Anyway, it was so encouraging and so fun to deepen each and every relationship. Thanks for coming out guys!!!
We put out over 7 full garbage bags at the curb this morning and noted that's the most we've ever had since we bought the house 6 years ago! It's been a crazy weekend...
6. I forgot to mention that we still kept up with the routine happenings of our usual weeks: wednesday night church stuff, marriage counseling session with one of the about-to-be couples from church, friends/fam over for dinner once a week, our night, etc....and oh, yah, raising two boys under the age of 2...
7. This week should go back to normal {somewhat}. I am thinking of going out and buying some clothes first since our laundry is overflowing and I have too many chores to tackle and the idea of new clothes is therapeutic {...to me. Costly, to Jus}.
...or maybe I'll just take a quick nap first...
