The Shafferland Shuffle

* Last Sunday, when we arrived at church, there was a blood bank bus in the parking lot. Have to admit that was a new one for me! So before we went home, Ryan gave blood. I was brave enough to go inside with him and sit this close...but not brave enough to have needles touch me. Baby steps.

Then that evening, we went to a cookout to see some friends of mine who are home, ever so briefly, from Hong Kong!

* Monday evening we cracked down and worked HARD on the house. All our recent projects had resulted in quite the mess around the house, so we worked on it. My favorite part? Our unearthing of the famous high school class mugs...so now we have something to match and show for all the years we were 100 feet away from each other and didn't even know it. LOL!

* Tuesday was our 7 month anniversary, and you already saw the recap of that, but another activity we did that night was...ripping up the carpet in our dining room! We ordered new carpet for the main living areas in our house. {Current carpet is probably about 30 years old - or older.}Anyway, so we ordered it and when we ripped up the existing carpet...we found the hardwood underneath was in MUCH better shape than we anticipated. {Minus, of course, a giant hole where a furnace used to be!!}

{By the way, that's printing on the underside of the carpet - not disturbing stains.}

* Wednesday I got off work at noon {woot woot!} and spent the afternoon running errands...but that night, I settled in with my laptop in the pirogi and worked on my baby shower gift for one of Olivia's baby showers...and Ryan worked on the yard. And by that, of course, I mean, he climbed this tree and cut dead branches out. And ripped out old landscaping. He's so motivated. :)

 * Thursday was the 4th of July, and Ryan had to work part of the day, so I got to try my hand at full time house wifery - and fell IN LOVE with it. I fixed us a picnic to eat in our pirogi for a late lunch, and then that afternoon, we headed out toward Indianapolis for dinner, shopping, and some fireworks over Morse Lake in Cicero!

* Friday felt like Monday, since I'd just been off work...so I was all confused! Add to it...that Lynne and I did our Thursday BLT show on Friday - good grief! I made hot chicken salad for dinner and Ryan and I canceled all our work-around-the-house plans to just take it easy. We went for a walk, watched a movie, and I finished up the craft projects for Olivia's baby showers. Nothing like waiting until the last minute!!

* And Saturday...was shower day!!! I attended two baby showers for Olivia...one with the church family we shared when we first met, and one with her friends from high school and college. {Oh BLESS her for including me in that bunch!} It's the first time I've seen her since she knew she was pregnant and she's absolutely GORGEOUS. I loved sharing this with her.