A Blog of a Different Color....

So guess what?


Im not going to post about the housing crisis! Haha.. seriously.. dont beleive me, read on!


Im going to post about my marvelous weekend!

Friday night we dropped off the 2 stinkers kids at their respite family we could all have a break from each other.  Im so happy that they love their respite fam.  They ask to go there, and thats so cool!! 
Then we came home and packed up our stuff for our weekend away to VA! 

Saturday morning we packed up the car, the dogs, and Madi and took Mike to work for a half day.  After our errands... we took off down the highway.

Why were we going to VA?  Oh, nothin special.  Just my best friends son's birthday!!  :o)  Little Josiah turned 4 on Saturday, and we celebrated at a park with a Lightning McQueen cake!  YUM!!  Seriously... they have a grocery store down there called Safeway and their cupcake cakes are AMAZING!  The icing is the best! 
Afer the party, we spent the evening with the bffs and her bro and sis.  We played Apples to Apples and chatted.  And LAUGHED!  I so needed to laugh like that!
Sunday, we went their church, where they are the childrens pastors and enjoy some awesome worship and a great Word!  Let me tell ya tho, Sunday was HOOOOT. WHEW, like 100+ hot.  So what did we do?  Went to an outdoor church picnic.  Really?  Yea.  Lol. All I can say is... it was HOT! :o)
Then came Monday.... hehe.. we were all so excited for Monday... because Monday was ZOOOOOO day! :o)
We went to the Washington DC National Zoo.  It was hot, yes, but a lot of the zoo is shaded, and it was so much fun, it didnt matter!  We saw lions, tigers, pandas, hedgehogs, turtles, and tons more!  Madi's favorite was the Flamingos.  WHy?  Cause they are pink! :o)  I took some super cute pics of them and we are going to blow one up to put in her room. 

really, it was a great weekend!  We spent a lot of time talking and laughing and loving on each others kids.  I didnt think very much at all about the house or anything else.  Madi hardly had any fits and was mostly obedient the whole time!  And her and Josiah are so good together! They play well and never fight or argue.  Its wonderful!  It was such a peaceful good time for us.  We needed it, and we HAVE to thank our bffs for showing us love and hospitality. They were Jesus to us this weekend, and probably didnt even know it!

Thanks Tammy & Josh.  Your amazing!!