easter

i'm soaking in this saturday morning. drinking vanilla coffee and marveling that dobby is actually behaving himself! today we'll be spending some time at our beautiful park, and getting ready for sunday. first thing: youth mess day, which involves all those games that seems so grossly wonderful when you're 14. my personal favorite is the slip n' slide sundae requiring 50 feet of plastic tarp, 2 bottles of oil, 2 giant tubs of ice cream, chocolate and strawberry syrup and cherries. my personal goal will be staying as far away from the sundae as i can! 

on sunday, kaileigh and brittany will be coming, followed by karlie, matt's cousin on monday. we'll be stealing away for some beach time during the week, which i'm so excited about. 

and here are some pictures from easter weekend. the yard, dawnie's baptism, and our trip to ocala...

an 87 degree weekend

oh, a few pictures of curves recently. one of our members brought in john wayne to keep us all motivated. and oh he does! especially after i dressed him in a curves shirt...

the beginning part of the weekend was busy with curves and working saturday morning. i went out mandy, one of our youth girls to the sun shoppe downtown for a chat. wow. i'm so glad i'm not 18 anymore! 

last night matt was feeling a little better from his pneumonia, so we went to a thai restaurant beachside and sat on the deck at sunset. it was the most beautiful evening, a breeze off the ocean would shake the flower bushes behind us, giving off an amazing smell....after chicken pad thai, we walked down the beach for a while, then stopped to get dibs and frosty paws ice cream (for dobby) at publix.

today has been a wonderful mix of coffee, a stroll around the zoo, grocery shopping, and working in the yard. i pulled 2 yard bags full of weeds out of the front yard alone! 

i'll post some pictures when it's even halfway decent! 

LATTeLAND

is where i'm sitting in downtown kansas city, watching the snow pouring down outside and feeling very pleased with my choice of a chocolate croissant for breakfast. 

walking here this morning, i remembered the long-ago feeling of panic when i walk. every third step my feet would slip a little on the sidewalk, i would gasp in an over-reacting sort of way and grab matt's arm. it brought back so many wheaton memories of heading down the smith-traber sidewalk and falling 'ass over tea-kettle'.  i was really relieved to arrive at latteland in one piece!

tonight we're going to a children's theatre production of 'a separate peace', which todd informed me was only one hour fifteen minutes max due to the shorting attention spans of today's youth ;) todd's studio apartment is appropriately decorated for him with shelves and shelves of books and plays, wood floors, piles of shoes, and his own paintings hanging on the walls. 

dobby is spending his first weekend away from his parents with my mom and dad, and from every report i hear, has been an angel. who knew??! i hope they take a video of him so we'll know what that even looks like...