The Shafferland Shuffle

A very happy birthday to my mom...and we'll just leave out her age! :) Hope you have a happy day, today, Mom! While she celebrates another year of life, here are the things we've celebrated and enjoyed this past week!

* After church last week, we stopped by Lowe's, and I found myself staring at paint samples. Do you really need a new project, Bekah? (The answer is no, but dreaming is fun!) I made a Dashing Dish meat loaf recipe for dinner, and it was so good, and Ryan and I went on a sunset walk, too! Beautiful weather that day and most of the week, actually!

* Monday was Labor Day and our 81st monthiversary, and I've already told you about both of them! Ryan worked, and I went to IKEA with my friend Amber. When Ryan and I got home, we celebrated 81 months with some house-project-completion! We grilled out for dinner and called it a really wonderful day.

* Tuesday marked the kickoff of our new small group season. Not everyone from our group was able to be there, but we loved spending time with the ones that were! I made berry shortcake for our snack, we dug into Erica Wiggenhorn's new study, and one of our small group friends brought me a new, totally-Bekah sweatshirt. (It's as comfortable as it is cute!)

* Wednesday began the great office overhaul. Over the craziness of the past year, it's become kind of a catch-all place, and I haven't been able to be creatively inspired in there for a while now. I started out by reorganizing all my books to put them in color order instead of alphabetical order. Looks so pretty now! I had a good long workout that afternoon, and Ryan and I rounded out the day by practicing our Dutch Blitz skills!

* I reprised my role of carpool driver on Thursday morning - just helping out a friend for the day. (Not the same kids I used to drive.) When I came home, I launched into cleaning the office for real. I organized, purged, threw stuff away, put stuff away...it was a busy day! I even put together the stools I got at IKEA! As long as you only look at half the office, it looks really great!

* Friday morning, I met a friend for coffee and listening and business brainstorming. It was a good morning (and good coffee)! Ryan and I ran errands after work, and we found the coffee mug we both need. HA! When we got home, I added another little fall piece to our house. I need to watch for clearance sales this year! I'm too cheap to pay the in-season prices.

* Yesterday was date-day for us! We've had this one on the calendar for a long time! There was a huge air show at the air reserve base north of Kokomo. We've never been to an air show and had no idea what to expect. (There were many parts of it that we did not assume correctly in advance, but we had a GREAT time.) I'll have to tell you all about it this week!