It's Winter...no it's Spring...no it's Winter!!! Ahhh!!!!

My desire for a big snow storm where I can't leave the house for days and can stay in my pj's by the fire has finally left....it was like 70 degrees yesterday and today....I got outside, enjoyed the sunshine, began having spring fever....and now, you guessed it, they're predicting the snowstorm to beat all snowstorms!! Since I have absolutely ZERO faith in the KY3 Stormteam (and "chief meteorologist Ron Hurst"), I will believe it when I see it, but it just figures that right when I start to get in the mood for warmth, here comes the snow. Oh well.

Anyway, it's been a really busy and fun couple of weeks. Last weekend, Darrell and I hosted a dinner at our house for us and 3 other couples. This was through our church/Ozarks Marriage Matters, and was just basically a casual dinner between couples to have fun and talk about being married, etc. We knew the other 3 couples, but they didn't know each other, so it was kind of fun to see them all interact. Everyone brought their wedding albums and we had fun telling stories about our wedding days and laughing at how ridiculously young we all looked (Darrell in particular who looked like he was about 12 when we got married!), although I don't think anyone could beat the Muzinger's lovely plaid taffeta bridesmaid dresses. Classic 70's!!

The next morning, we went with a group from church down to The Kitchen to work in the warehouse and help in the kitchen for the lunch service. This was a really neat experience because the group that ended up going were, for the most part, fairly new to our church. When we got there, we thought we would all be working in the warehouse, but then they needed some help in the kitchen, so a few of us headed over there. One of the families that went with us used to be in the restaurant business, and they were able to walk in and basically handle making lunch for all of these people. The Kitchen manager was thrilled because apparently they have a lot of trouble finding helpers that actually know how to cook and use the professional equipment. If we hadn't been there, they would've only had 2 people to get the whole place ready for the lunch crowd. It really felt like a God thing. Not being talented at, well, basically anything, I picked up a bucket and rag and cleaned everything I could find, and then did windows. I knew being germophobic would come in handy someday!! Anyway, it was fun, and it was really inspiring to see the spark go off in these people who clearly have a heart for service. This kind of thing really needs to happen more often.

That took us to this last week which was Glendale baseball tryouts all week long. Jacob did great and found out on Friday that he is, in fact, an official Glendale Falcon baseball player!! Yeah!! We are so excited for him, and can't wait for the season to start.

Friday night, we went and saw the Newsboys in concert. I was honestly so tired, I really considered not going, but since we had already bought the tickets, I went ahead and went, and it ended up being a good show. I have to say that Rush of Fools, who opened for them, was really the highlight of the evening for me. They had a pretty good first opening band, then a kind of weird second one, then Rush of Fools. Newsboys did great, but they didn't really play all that many songs. The lead singer preached for a fairly long time in the middle, and his message was good, but I thought it got a little long for a concert. I would've liked to have heard more of their songs since they have so many.

Anyway...now it's Sunday night again...another week about to begin.

Until later!