The Shafferland Shuffle

What a great and fun week! We accomplished a lot, but we also had fun and got to spend time with friends, so it's a win!

* Last Sunday morning, I spoke in a Sunday School class at one of my friends' churches. We weren't able to get any speaking pictures, because we all sat in a circle and it would have been a little awkward to have Ryan snapping pictures of me sitting next to him. HA! But we did get a picture outside the church after it was over! We really enjoyed our time there, and then our friends took us out to lunch, and we had a great time talking with them for a couple of hours. We had a storm roll through that afternoon, but it cleared up by evening, and we took a walk. My hair was straight when we left home! Hello, humidity!

* Ryan got to see his grandpa for a little bit on Monday, and he got this great picture of the two of them together. I think it's pretty exceptional! I tried out a new Dashing Dish recipe - a blueberry crisp/cobbler thing. It was so good! Braeya just got water. :)

* I spent some time writing on Tuesday and it was one of those writing sessions that was great, but when I was done, I had to take a nap, because it took absolutely everything out of me. That night we met up with one of my WBCL friends and her husband and had dinner together. We ended up talking for two and a half hours and had NO idea that much time had gone by. We hadn't seen them in several months, so it was a good catch-up meal!

* Phoebe came to stay with us for a few days this week, and she arrived on Wednesday. We hung out at home, went to see Ryan at work, went on walks, and did some quality control while Ryan worked on painting the spindles on the deck. I'm telling you those things must surely multiply during painting. It doesn't look very big until you pick up a paintbrush.

* I was on the run from morning until night on Thursday! I had a morning meeting, an afternoon meeting, and that night, I went back to Cross America to host another service project for our church women. I missed Ryan while I was gone, but we had a great time working on mailings at Cross America. (And Ryan and Phoebe had fun at home without me.)

* Phoebe's (human) brother got married on Friday, so we did a little photo shoot gift for him. :) She ran errands with me and went on some walks, and Ryan and I had a nice little low-key date night on Friday night.

* Yesterday morning I finished up the first level of some online classes I've been taking, and I organized all my notes in a binder. It made me SO HAPPY. It was Phoebe's last day with us, and she was all snuggly, which I didn't hate at all. And Ryan's work rented out Kokomo Beach last night, so we went over there for a fun (and free) night of swimming!