Nice wrinkled nose, eh?

I also realized Mr. Frog’s portrait had been missed and so we took care of that before school on Monday!

Age 6

Age 3 weeks

They told me it would fly by but I didn’t believe them. They were right. Darn!

So while this blog has been silent due to a certain someone having loads of fun in Atlanta, don’t think for a minute that the home of the Blue Hutch has been quiet. Not for a moment!

Thankfully ‘not quiet’ does not equal ‘destructive’. Those of us left behind have had a bunch of fun. Here are some highlights…

• Two trips to McDonald’s in one day. PLENTY of Playland for the kids and sweet tea for the daddy!
• A trip to Walmart for a replacement for the Bubs of ‘Mister The King’, a little diecast CARS car that he got as a poopy treat but then lost.
• ANOTHER POOPY TREAT for the big boy. What did he get?
  Yep! He got Mater, and I wish Sweety could’ve seen the look on his face when I pulled it out and gave it to him. He was adorable!
• Of course, there was also the obligatory bodily harm that had to happen to someone and it happened last night when I was trying to get Bubs ready for bed. He started to run away, I reached out to grab him, he tripped, and instead of grabbing him around the waist, I clocked him in the face, leading to a busted lip for him and gashed thumb for me. So fun!
• Plenty of smiles from KB to Daddy.
• Plenty of kisses from Little to Daddy.
• Riproarious laughter as we rode home from McDonald’s and I talked them through the game plan for getting ready for bed. After I was sure they all understood, I told them that if we did all that, it would be SUCCESS! That suddenly became a humor word and we spent the rest of the ride yelling out SUCCESS and laughing.
• One of the trips to McDonald’s was to have dinner with long-time friends from seminary, the Eubanks, who were on their way back home and passing through. So much fun and so good to just hang out with good friends.

Now I’m off to watch more of Season 1 of Heroes and probably some ice cream.

The denominational Women in the Church Leadership Conference is this weekend and I am getting to go with four other women from our church. I am really excited about the opportunity. Really excited. We leave Thursday morning EARLY and get back Saturday afternoon (kinda late). It wouldn’t be considered late except it’s Little’s birthday and I cannot stand that I am missing it.

So the fun actually started yesterday when we received an email from someone named John Goodman (isn’t that hilarious?) telling us that the hotel was over booked and asking if anyone was willing to stay in the hotel .3 miles up the road. The first 15 to volunteer would receive $80 to spend at the bookstore. Amy and I jumped at the opportunity and we will now be staying at the Courtyard and shopping at the bookstore! I am really excited. Really excited.

The next order of business is to figure out if any of the bags we have are small enough to carry-on AND large enough to hold my necessities. Then I’ll need to get tiny bottles of everything, etc. A friend is lending me her copy of The Help by Kathryn Stockett, I am charging my MP3 player and camera battery, and looking forward to 47 degree weather and sunshine. AND I’ll get to hear Jerram Barrs (one of the professors at the seminary HERE) speak on discipleship!

It’s gonna be great.

Funny side note: my sister is going to be in Atlanta this weekend too. She is taking her husband to a basketball game (he is an Alabama boy who is a Mavericks fan? Go figure.). We are going to see if our paths can cross.

Hope YOU have a great weekend too.