weekend recap

well, another weekend has come and gone by so quickly.  fortunately it was a good weekend  :o) the weekend started kind of early for me...by earlier i mean that i took friday off as a vacation day to do what i've been doing for the past 4 years now...volunteer my day to help at Inspire Women.  They have an annual luncheon/conference and my bff is the COO for Inspire Women.  They are dedicated to training and equipping women for serving in ministry.  you can learn more about Inspire Women here.  it was a long day but always such a blessing to meet the other volunteers and people that really make the conferences a success.  plus, they always have such amazing speakers and folks.  one year, i got to meet Elizabeth Elliot and was in charge of her book table during/after the luncheon/conference.  one year, i got to meet Jill Briscoe and again got to be in charge of her book table during/after the luncheon/conference as well. last year, i got to help at Anita Carmen's book table and that was pretty cool as well.  all of these women - so amazing.  And this year, I got to meet Arthur Blessit - a man who literally carried a cross over 38K miles.  He was the keynote speaker this year and he was so awesome.

Above is a picture of Arthur Blessit during the 9th Annual Inspire Women Conference.  Picture courtesy of Anita Carmen's weekly e-devotional.

 Amazing to see God in the lives of these very humble and interesting people. anyhoo - this year's conference was really great and i'm am able to be a part of it because of my BFF Mia...who with me realized that she and I have now known each other for 15 years.  so many things have happened and it's been such a memorable past decade and a half.
let's see what else happened this weekend...

on Saturday morning, DH and I went over to our friends' house to watch their 2 kiddos while the parentals when to get one of the kiddos 1st bday.  watching a toddler is a lot harder than i imagined it to be.  watching a baby not too bad. both of these kids, however, we like angels.  then it was time for us to head to the restaurant that the birthday party was being held at. all in all, it was a lovely afternoon filled with yummy food and cake (which was so nice!).

by Saturday afternoon, DH and I needed a nap.  so we took one.  we were pooped. 

that evening, we met up with two of our neighbors. we all were the first three couples that moved into our cul-de-sac.  this was the first time that we've gotten together outside of our neighborhood to go have dinner together and then we went to shoot some pool afterwards.  i have't been in a pool hall in probably a decade so that was really interesting..and fun :)

today, we woke up and ended up not making it to church because we were having car issues...which left DH in the garage all day getting that car taken car of.  he's great :)  and i on the other hand, have done about 4 loads of laundry whilst trying to get my card pics in order. 

i've managed to post a photo gallery with some pics i've done this past year.  hope you get to take a peek at them if you have time.  and if you have any suggestions or comments, i would love to hear them.  i say this as if there's anyone out there reading this.