Homecoming 2008

What a weekend! Friday Peter brought home Panera (SO good!) and we went grocery shopping. We picked up "PS - I Love You". It was pretty good. Not fantastic but worth a try. (It's no "Atonement"). Then we went to bed fairly early. We're party animals I tell you!

Saturday we made breakfast (toaster Eggo waffles, baby) and hung around the house a bit. Did some laundry. We're so exciting aren't we? Ok, here's where the weekend really picks up. Around 2 we headed to Messiah to check out Homecoming. We took a stroll through the Oakes Museum (pretty awesome) with about a million kids + strollers. Then we headed to the President's new house "Orchard Hill". The house was amazing, outstanding and fabulous all rolled into one plus 10. Really truly incredible. I loved it.

Around 4 we met up with my 4 college roomies - Linz, Chris, Whit and Stef - at Isaac's for dinner. We had a really nice time visiting. We hadn't all been together since June 2006! It was about darn time. After dinner we, Linz and Jason headed back to the soccer game to meet up with another friend - Nicole. Despite the fact that she lives roughly 3 miles away, I hadn't seen her since graduation so it was a nice treat to meet up and chat. After all that we crashed.

Sunday we taught Sunday school and then came home to prepare for my Pampered Chef party. Only 6 ladies showed up but we had a good time nonetheless. Peter met up with his Dad at the mall to hang out and avoid all the estrogen. At the party we made a one pot pasta dish that was so, so good. Penne cooked in chicken broth with brocolli, carrots and sun-dried tomatoes. Oh and cream cheese. Delish! My mom and aunt were here so we had a nice time hanging out with them after the party too. Then we had our small group meeting and didn't get home till 9. And then we crashed again, haha.

This morning we awoke to a chirping smoke detector in our bedroom at 4 am. We have a cathedral ceiling and Peter could hardly reach it even standing on my dresser. We couldn't find a way to change the battery so we're enlisting the help of a neighbor tonight to help figure it out. So frustrating!

That's all the news from here. Keep on keeping on.

The Hutch

...as promised. See below :)

Not much going on this week. We're enjoying the lovely Fall weather. Today it feels close to 80 and we have the windows open again. Simply beautiful.

Amy made a lasagna on Tuesday and we're still enjoying it (along with what's left of the baby shower goodies).

That's all for now.

It's a baby shower!

Amy hosted a baby shower for our good friend Michelle. There were 10 guests in all. It was a good time! Michelle wanted a dessert bar so we had about 8 different desserts. We have leftovers coming out our ears and we already gave some away to Amy's parents, our neighbors and Amy's parents' neighbors!

Chris and Michelle are having a surprise so the shower was gender neutral. We tried to get yellow roses but all we could find was pink. The shower was for Michelle and she's a girl so maybe that's ok, haha. We didn't play any games but we did have the guests fill out pieces of cardstock with words of advice and encouragement to put into a large glass vase to keep in the nursery. All in all, Amy was pleased with everything but we're both glad for it to be over.

Amy's Mom and Dad dropped off a hutch from her Gram tonight too. It is beautiful and fits just perfectly in our dining room. Photos to follow eventually, promise. It's just been too busy a day and we're too tired and lazy...