The Shafferland Shuffle

Good morning, happy Sunday, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my dad! He's celebrating today, and we're celebrating too...from afar! Hope you have a great day, Dad! Have an extra piece of ice cream cake for me!

While he's celebrating, I'll tell you about our week!

* We were doing some celebrating of our own last Sunday - to mark our eighth engagementversary! We went to DeBrand to split an ice cream sundae, and then we enjoyed working together for the rest of the day. (Even though we were on duty, it was a gift of sorts to get to work TOGETHER!)

* Monday morning was a gorgeous foggy fall day - and we spent the day working together with Tim and Justine. We worked on a brochure for WillowBridge, which Ryan drew out to scale. Craft projects!! (I found it much cuter than he did.) The fog had long burned off by evening, so we went for a walk to enjoy the beautiful colors! 

* Tuesday was a busy day at work! Gateway Woods had been working on a video that needed some more scenes shot, so they asked to use our apartment as a set. And that is how life felt like a Hallmark movie for a few hours! Once they were done using our apartment we all moved to another location and Ryan and I were extras in a scene. It was a fun day - and something different - but when we got home at the end of the day, I was ready for a nap!

* Wednesday was the first day of our weekend this week, and it was a gorgeous day! We pulled Fletcher the kayak out of storage and took him for a spin in the river. The trees have started to turn, and we really enjoyed our time! (We might have enjoyed it a tiny bit more if the wind hadn't kicked up so hard and worked against us all the way home!) I don't know if we'll have enough warm days off to go back out again before winter (because Indiana is such a weather gamble) but if not, this was a great finale to the season!

* We rounded out our weekend on Thursday. We ran some errands in the morning and they didn't take as long as we thought they would, so we decided to go for a bike ride that afternoon! We tried out a couple of the trails in Fort Wayne and ended up riding about 10 miles. It was a PERFECT and GORGEOUS fall day! Loved it. 

* We went back to work on Friday, which started with being extras in another video shoot. ;) On our way home from that, we scoped out some spots for fall pictures and stopped by a pumpkin patch to get the lay of the land before our community outing there on Saturday. It was a fun day - and another beautiful one to boot! Oh! And Ryan met some new friends on our walk that night. 

* And then there was yesterday! Community Day at WillowBridge! We took our tenants to the pumpkin patch and had a BLAST with the jump pad, corn maze, corn hole, and more. We picked out pumpkins and brought them back to the building to paint them together. We have some crazy talented artists in the building! It was a FUN day!