Awesome & Not Awesome

How was your weekend?  I hope it was swell.  Ours was busy and fun and crazy.  Awesome stuff and not so awesome stuff.  But lots of things to be thankful for.

Not Awesome:  Our air went our early on Friday and couldn’t be fixed until today.  Talk about hot.  Kids all slept downstairs because the boys room upstairs was a furnace.  We had fans going and everyone hydrating.  We all were crazy tired…Josh chalked it up to the heat and how our house immediately went to island time.  Today I’m crazy thankful for air conditioning.

Awesome:  Harper baking chocolate chip cookies all by herself.  It was a really proud mom moment…it also sent the hot factor in our house through the roof.

Awesome:  Running into friends at our favorite local Mexican restaurant and making it a full on two family dinner date.

Awesome: Outdoor Lego Movie watching party, a surprise party and 2 swim parties with friends.  Thats a lot of partying for 3 days.  Good friends are pretty dang special.  Ones who really want to do life with you and yours…who love you and your kiddos…the good, the bad and the different.  Josh and I are really blessed with some amazing friends.

Not Awesome:  Harper chipping her new front tooth on Hudson’s head at one of our pool parties resulting in a trip the dentist this morning.  #eyelashesfordays

Awesome:  Hudson and Solomon’s team party even though cupcakes melted in the heat.

Awesome:  Josh’s mom treating all her granddaughters to a local Willy Wonka play.  Harper loved it.

Not Awesome:  Figuring out you probably have some weirdly sick kids after an entire weekend of thinking maybe the heat was just getting to them.  We’ll be enjoying an afternoon of doctors appointments.

Awesome:  Finally getting this video to post because my web dude Randy ended up doing it for me.  Randy has launched a really cool organization called The Orphan Care Network.  You can check out their Facebook HERE.  Randy is my go-to website guy and I would love to help get his name out there even more with his new venture.  I think he explains TOCN best:  “We are creating TOCN network churches and help them launch community-based orphan care ministries.  We provide all on-site training, host a launch event for the church/community, provide curriculum, online resources, branding and help with getting people from the surrounding areas there and involved.  We truly believe the only way to have a healthy and sustainable orphan care ministry is through community groups and getting all who have a heart for orphan care walking together.”  Check out their site and see if this is something your community or church would like to participate in.  Thanks so much Randy for your hard, good work.

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/97764616]

Hope everyone’s Monday is off to an awesome start.  Here’s hoping for a really awesome week.

Happy Monday!