Oh hello again work week...

This weekend went by too quickly as always. Allen had to work Friday night. Saturday we had Grandma, Pop Pop, and Caleb over for dinner. It was my first attempt at stuffed zucchini. Everyone said it was good, and everyone ate it, but I just thought it was so so. It's a recipe I might play with to make better. It was nice to have my Grandparents over and even nicer to know they have a less than ten minute drive.

Sunday we went to church. We decided to hold off on Sunday school. We both were still pretty tired. Feels like we are more worn out lately because the allergies are so severe. Even with taking Claritin our allergies are dragging us down. Our future kids are doomed to have to live in bubbles... We also decided to hold off on joining the choir, so we did not attend the choir get together. After much discussion, it's something that we should wait to do until we make the decision to move our membership to this church. In two weeks we have the "Next Step" dinner where we get to learn a little bit more about the church and it might be a better idea to wait to make a committment to a choir until we make the decision to be members. We are going to continue to attend MPCC, but we are going to also look at attending the church here in Hannibal that my uncle Steve goes to and maybe a few others.

If I'm not blogging every night, just know that I'm catching up on some z's.

Love you all soooo much.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA R.!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YA! :)

It's getting darker, earlier....

Allen is VERY grateful for the cool down. I don't really have much of anything to report today...just that we miss everyone and love you all! :)

Gonna try this again...

Well, we've been minimizing our time on the computer since it started acting up and it hasn't seemed to have any major problems again. So, I'm going to resume normal computer use. We'll see. Still not sure what was going on. We did do the defragmenting thing so, hopefully it is fixed. I think it has something to do with the US Cable Modem because we didn't have any problems when we were in Quincy.

Well, this weekend was fast a furious. Friday night, Allen had to work of course. Saturday , I made a trip to the Hannibal Farmers Market. It's not as big as the Quincy one, not nearly as many choices, but the prices are better. I was able to get three summer squash and one cucumber for $1! O, and four green peppers for a $1 too! :)

Later we had "movie night" at our house. Grandma Hazel is leaving for Arizona the first week of October so we don't have very much time left to get to see her. So, we planned a movie night. Which kind of turned into crazy night at Amber and Allen's, LOL! We had Caleb, Josh, Charlotte, Andy, baby Kristen, Allen, Grandma, and myself all together! The movie we watched ended up being a very violent and serious movie. I thought it was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't so I was disappointed. Wasn't much a family movie night movie, to say the least. Then somehow we all managed to make it to church, almost on time on Sunday. HUGE thank you to Grandma Hazel for helping out with the automobile situation. I joked that I need a van. LOL! I shouldn't joke about that...soon enough it will be true! (Eventually...) It was really cool for everyone to be at church together.

Allen and I have decided to get a new puppy, so we are now watching the paper. We are looking for a smooth black and tan mini-doxie. YAY! :)

UGH!

So, I'm only blogging very quickly, was finally able to get on the computer after having to turn it on and off FOUR times. One time I had to actually disconnect the power to the computer b/c it wouldn't let me turn it off and was beeping at me! Obviously there is something wrong. Allen is gonna take a look at it in the morning so I'm not sure when the next blog will be, especially if we have to take it in to have it looked at. :(

Love you all!

Oh weekends...why do you go sooo quickly?

Well, it was a short weekend. Allen had to work overtime Sunday night, and of course had to work Friday night, so much of the weekend was spent by Allen sleeping. I can't say I blame him at all. Not only is he working the worst shift ever if was rediculously hot last week, which takes even more out of Allen than a normally hot week. He did survive it though, and this week is already much much cooler.

The suprise Ms. Bezler had for me was a CD with two videos of me singing at church when I was 12 or 13. The videos are wonderful, but what is even more wonderful is the fact that she took the time to make the video for me and seek me out 13 years later to make sure I had a copy of it. She's a wondefully unique lady and I'm very blessed to have been taught by her. She definately made an impact on me. I'm glad to have remade the connection to her, now as an adult and I hope to get to spend some time with her again soon. She loved Allen's voice sooo much, it was so funny. The first thing she said to him after he said "Hello" was "Oooo you must sing!" And she kept asking him to sing through out dinner. It made me laugh so hard! :) What a great night!

Sunday at church was a summer celebration of what the youth and children of the church have been up to this summer. It was neat to get to see the impact this church is making on the kids and is a comfort to know they have ALOT of kids and an active ministry for them. Loving this church even more every Sunday we go. On Sunday September 12, they are having a "Next Step" lunch , for newcomers to the church to get to know more about it. I'm excited. Also, they are having a mixer on August 29th for people that are interested in joing the worship ministry a.k.a. choir. I am VERY excited about this. Allen is going to join too. It should be fun!

Love you all!

Ooooh!

So, tomorrow I find out what this big suprise my elementary music school teacher has for me 13 years later....what on earth could it be?

Connected again!

Well, we are finally back online, and back to a sense of semi-normalness. The move went as smooth as moving could be expected, fast and furious as always, and was relatively painless except on the painful side for out pocket book. This move has been one of our more expensive moves, but the good news is, WE GOT OUR FULL DEPOSIT BACK from the place in Quincy. All of that deep cleaning we did paid off! We were starting to get nervous that we weren't going to get it back. But we did and now we can breathe a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, we have had to go with cable TV. Apparently the hills in Hannibal prevent the digital signal from making it into the homes, without a major outdoor antenna. We're doing the cable internet/tv package from US cable. Can you believe that Allen and I went three whole weeks with no tv and no internet? We could hardly believe it ourselves! We did a lot of reading and it definately did help us with less distraction from unpacking. Spending that long away from TV and the internet did help me realize how much time I've spent wasted online in the past few months. I'm going to try to be a little bit more aware of what I'm doing online and how long I spend.

We had a great weekend in Sturgeon visiting the Cooley family. We can't wait for everyone to come up and visit us here in Hannibal!

Now that we are back online, I will be able to blog again, and hopefully on a much more regular basis than before.

Love you all!