So this past Friday there was a conference at our church called ReThink for youth ministers or really anyone in ministry. Blake of course was very involved in helping out with it which meant another LONG day for me at home alone with the boys and no help in sight..... So out of the blue Friday morning the phone rings and it is my sweet friend Julie asking if she could come over and hang out with me and the boys since she had just been up at the church helping out with registration for the conference and thought about me at home. Then she also said, "Why don't you go up to some of the conference if you want and I'll stay with the boys!" Are you kidding!!! I was SO excited and went about putting on clothes that I would actually wear out of the house and starting to blow dry my hair instead of leaving it up in my costumary clip that it stays in on most days till oh around 2:00 when I actually have ten minutes or so during naptime to dry it!
Julie and I actually schlepped all the boys up there to see daddy for a little while before lunch and then she helped me get them all home, lunched, and down for their naps and I went back for my friend Tina's seminar for the wives of the youth pastors. It was so nice to be able to be there and be refreshed for an hour or so. The funnest part was that one of Blake's buddies from our Liberty days was there with his wife so it was fun to see him again (Dwayne Blasdel for those of my LU friends) and meet his wife Tiana! The other great thing about getting to spend some time with them was that they are the parents of four GIRLS who are all about a year to year and a half apart too! Theirs range in age from seven to three while we are from five to five months. It was fun swapping stories and talking to someone who is just a little ahead of us for a preview of what's awaiting us.... ahem SCHOOL! It was funny to find out that our kiddos personalities are pretty much carbon copies of each others keeping consistent with their birth order. Who is easy going, difficult, etc.... Tiana and I decided that I might have to come to Nashville and spend some time with her and the girls and she can send Dwayne to our house so he can get his boy fix! We were also trying to figure out which of our kids we could go ahead and start planning arranged marriages for!
We had such a fun time hanging out and then meeting them for lunch today at Moe's before they headed off to the airport to catch their plane. I meant to get a picture of them and I even took my camera along, but alas... I forgot!
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