Friday night my nephews, Connor (2 ½ half years old) and Austin (3 ½ months old), spent the night with Paul and I. My sister, Jenna, and her husband, Colin, were out for the night to celebrate their 4 year anniversary! They dropped the boys off with us at 6 and came back Saturday at 11. They had a great time and so did we! Connor had a lot of fun playing with Paul and I, and Austin is such a sweet, easy baby. Connor was great going to bed, and I got the joy of cuddling up with him, reading him a bedtime story and praying for him. Oh!
After Connor was asleep and Austin was again fed and changed, our friends Josh and Ana came over to play Settlers of Catan. We played with 2 expansion packs (Cities & Knights and Seafarers) and the game lasted for over 2 hours. Austin was pretty much perfect the whole way through and the game was a lot of fun! We really like Josh and Ana so it was a pretty wonderful evening. After our guests left, and after we stayed up chatting with Candace (who is living with us for 4 months) Paul and I got to have a great chat, until 1:30am about life. It was so nice to have time to talk about life and ministry and kids and the future. Unfortunately we chose the one Friday that would have little kids waking us up the next day! Both boys woke up earlier than normal at 6:30 (instead of their usual 9:30!!). I got them to drift in and out of sleep for another hour and a half. I brought Connor in to bed with Paul and I, and oh man, he is so sweet when he sleeps! And since we have a King size bed not only did Paul not notice that Connor was there, but Connor kept looking and around and saying “Where’s Auntie Paul?” He’s a bit confused on the Auntie/Uncle gender thing. Before 11 when their parents came back, I hung out with Connor and Austin in the living room (while I let Auntie Paul sleep). We watched Thomas the Tank Engine and other such shows and had breakfast. It was nice to hang out with my favorite boys.
Me and the boys
After the boys were gone and we were back on our own I spent the afternoon organizing our kitchen and fridge. As you can see our fridge is now SUPER organized.
This makes me very happy.
Sunday I spent the day organizing some more and prepping A LOT of food for Paul’s superbowl party. I made wings, pizza, chili/cheese dip, BBQ cocktail wieners and much more! Paul graciously recorded the superbowl and waited until AFTER church to watch the game and host his party. People started showing up at 5:30 and the last were there until 10. There were 15 guys there to watch the game and 4 girls there to sit in the kitchen and talk. The men devoured the food. I love cooking for people who love to eat! I am SHOCKED by how much food they managed to consume!
As soon as the game was halfway through and the food was under control Lyndsay, Stefany, Candace & I went out for Candace’s birthday. We had drinks at a Jamaican Restaurant and then headed over to Sweet Revenge for some AMAZING deserts. It was a perfect night, filled with reminiscing about first meeting Candace and other fun memories and sharing what we love about her.
Once we got home I stayed up late with Candace and Paul to watch the post superbowl Glee episode (Dang Telus, cut off half of the episode. I’m getting so tired of their TERRIBLE TV service). I slightly regret this decision now that it’s Monday morning and I am at work, very tired..however I am always very tired and so it doesn’t really matter how little sleep I get.
Tonight is bootcamp (in the cold, eep!), Tuesday is lifegroup, Wednesday I’m visiting a friend at Metrotown, Thursday is a coworkers going away dinner followed by a hangout with my sister and Friday through Sunday Paul and I are out of town in Port Alberni. I’m slightly tired thinking about it all – though it will be a great week! Lots of fun times ahead!
1 comment:
the picture of you & the boys is beyond cute. Also, your superbowl appies sound amazing! And I envy you for having a fridge large enough to organise. Most fridges over here fit under the counter...
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