Saturday afternoon continued with my niece Amanda’s 8th birthday party. It was pretty low key, but some highlights included a last-man-standing hula hoop competition… (No, Selina, I did not participate in this one...), potato sack races, and bubble making. There was a little boy that came to the party, who Zach seemed to really hit it off with. The little boy is cute as can be. He has his whole future planned out. He wants to be a science teacher when he grows up. So, naturally, he and Zach spent most of the afternoon finding dead beetles, pulling off the legs, cracking the bodies open, and examining their insides… GROSS!! While my son was busy being a boy, I had the opportunity to chat with this little scientist’s mom for quite a while. We really hit it off, and drum roll please… I invited her to church… I only mention this as being significant because just the other day I was talking to some friends about the fact that, since everything hit the fan at church, we had just stopped inviting people. I was feeling really guilty about it, but, why invite someone into our drama…? But it just felt right, and I’m so excited about that, just that it felt okay and natural to invite someone again. Praise God!!
Today was really low key. Juan Carlos Ortiz was speaking at church. I wasn’t overly excited about it. I certainly didn’t expect an old Hispanic dude to fit my idea of “cool”, but I REALLY enjoyed him. He was a great speaker, gave a great message, and had a very funny delivery. After church we enjoyed eggs benedict and other breakfast goodies out on the patio. It was great to just be together as a church enjoying each other’s company. This afternoon we just spent the day relaxing at home. I opened my mother’s day gift from Zach. He (with some help) got me two Cricut cartridges and Mario Kart for Wii. Guess who played Mario Kart all evening… nope, not me…Lol! My sister and her family came over for a little while, and we ended the day with food from one of our favorite restaurants,



