Shafferland Shuffle

* Last Sunday morning, we enjoyed some quiet time before church, and then during Sunday School, I got to hold this CUTE little girl, who was born about a month ago. The whole class fights over her and it was my first time to hold her. :) We were invited to lunch at the home of our friends, John and Sandee, who made SO MUCH FOOD. It was so good! We had a great time with them and then rested {and watched the disastrous Colts debacle}.

* Monday night, we discovered our yard had been fully covered with leaves again. So much for our hard work over the weekend! We worked out - squeezed in yet one more outdoor run - and ate a great Dashing Dish recipe for dinner. I do love Katie's recipes! All in all, it was a blissfully boring day and night!

* Tuesday night, Ryan had to go help his sister with some furniture-building projects {WHY didn't she call me for my mad skills????}, so I took the evening to attend a Mary Kay night with some friends. Little pedicure party! I was so busy polishing toes, I forgot it was the Duggar wedding show!!! GASP! I scurried home and promptly sobbed ALL the way through the show. I'm such a SUCKER! That's how Ryan found me when he came home: sitting on the ottoman right in front of the TV, crying my fool eyes out.

* Wednesday I hosted Mid-Morning again...while Lynne worked at the Habitat for Humanity site. I invited Josh and Shelly Buck back for a part two session! We had a great time! And a bonus? There were donuts in the kitchen after the show! YAY!!! Ryan got to partake in a MASSIVE pizza delivered to his work - to celebrate PT month! {When is producer month!??} So all in all, we ate well.

* Thursday night, we went to the gym, but we might as well have stayed home and attacked the half-a-tree's-worth-of-leaves-fallen-to-the-ground. Sigh. Instead, we did work out and then came home to watch our Thursday night lineup, with Braeya perched on Ryan's lap, as always. I also did laundry, and I'm happy to report that after almost TWO YEARS of using this laundry drying rack, I finally figured out I could use the clothes lines AS LINES and not just as a lay-flat rack. I'm not always real bright.

* We haven't been out on a real date in a while. It seems like lately we've been pooped by Friday, and we just want pizza, movies, and jammies! But this week I really wanted to go out, so we trekked to Indianapolis for the evening. We ate at Ruby Tuesdays, which was completely empty. {Note to others who don't have kids: restaurants are empty on Halloween because parents are out trick-or-treating!} Dinner was great, and then we started to go to the mall, but that's where all the trick-or-treaters were, because no one wanted to run around OUTSIDE IN THE SNOW. Snow in October = not cool. So instead, we went to furniture stores for fun and then of course, COFFEE!

 * Ryan worked yesterday, so I stayed home - IN BED, because with our new heated mattress pad, it was the warmest place in the whole house. I finished our Holiday World scrapbook while snuggled under the covers, drinking coffee, and watching TV. When Ryan got home, he did some winterizing work around the house {since, you know, winter is apparently here} and we ate dinner, complete with some festive cupcakes Ryan brought home!