Squeezin' in Stuff

I need to do some catchin' up with our weekend.

How can you not have a great weekend when it starts with this:My husband got up and cooked us some breakfast burritos!! He is a great cook and it was nice to be treated to some homemade breakfast!! Thank you Bryan!!

Saturday morning I was able to serve a sweet sister in Christ. It was a challenge emotionally, yet I was glad to serve. I went with several ladies to pray with Kerri Hardin at her home. Kerri is a member of my church. She is in the middle pictured with Stacy and Rachel at Bunco in September.Kerri is married and has 3 beautiful young girls a high schooler, middle school age, and a 3rd grader. Earlier in the year she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. She underwent surgeries and treatment and a scan revealed no signs of cancer. However over the past few weeks, doctors have discovered the cancer is back and is very aggressive. Earlier last week she underwent surgery to install some type of port to help drain fluid but the tumors were too large to complete the surgery. Please pray hard for this family. She has a strong family and a wonderful husband. It just hurts my heart to think of the trials and the feelings and the emotions they must all have. Kerri is a great woman of faith. She is comfortable for herself no matter what the outcome but she is concerned for her young girls. Please pray hard!!!

We had our Sunday School party on Saturday evening. It was a small progressive type dinner; we only had two places to go. Appetizers and the gift exchange was at Brooklyn's. I got a gift card to Starbucks!! Yippee!! I used it this morning!! :)

The Guys: Jorge, Todd, Bryan, Joe Don, and Robert

The Ladies: Me, Jennifer, Heather, Amy, and Brooklyn

And then we went to Todd & Amy Chapmans for the main meal, yummy lasagna, salad, and dessert! We also watched THE GAME (see previous post :) )while we were there.

For our class Christmas project this year, our Sunday School class prepared and sent gift bags to each soldier in Eric's platoon. We made 35 gift bags that had: granola bars, crackers, nuts, trail mix, cookies, gum, toothbrush, toothpaste, and playing cards. Then, Jennifer's home room at school each made cards for the soldiers.
Heather, Jennifer, and I stuffed these bags during the 1st quarter of the game and during commercials!! It went pretty fast. We just created an assembly line and got to it!! I am very grateful for the commitment and generosity of our Sunday School class. It is a great way to minister to Eric and his soldiers.

On Sunday after church, Bryan and I had a handsome lunch date; Eric's son, Jesse!!!

He is growing and changing! I cannot wait to see how his personality develops!

Every New Years Eve, my cousin James, Bryan, and I have established a tradition where we watch 24.

We watch it straight through; no going to sleep until we are done. I think we've done this 2-3 times. Last year nearly did us in (we are getting too old to stay up 24 hours) so we think we are doing something different this year; something that won't require us to stay up for 20+ hours at one time. This is what we are doing and it came in the mail today and funny thing is we had it shipped to my office and I took this picture at The Office:

Have a blessed day!!