Busy Weekend

We had one of the busiest weekends. Normally, weekends around our house are pretty relaxed, but the last 72 hours were non-stop.

Friday night, Tucker had his first baseball game. He was SOOOOOO excited to get out there and play. He did a great job of listening to the coach. His team only had one practice due to rain and spring break, so they still have some basics to work on (for example, drop the bat and run to first base when you hit the ball - don't just stand there.) But the key thing was, he had fun! And he had huge cheering section there with his entire family, grandparents, uncle, and puppy in the stands.

Saturday, I had a deacon kick-off breakfast for our deacon mentoring process. I am excited about mentoring Brian R - one of the guys I've known for the last couple of years - and I will say our church has a great process for bringing on new deacons and training them on "through the dust" service.

Becky left Saturday morning with the boys and Ashley K.  to take her 1/2 way back to Houston. She met Ashley's parent's in Buffalo, TX and then visited for awhile at the best bar-b-que spot in Tx. Titus stayed home with Nana until I could get home from breakfast.

After breakfast, I swung by the car wash to clean up Becky's suburban. We have the best carwash in McKinney that's cheap and provides a self-service vacuum spot. As I am vacumming the car out, the 30 mph winds we were experiencing Saturday slammed the door shut (along with the car keys and my phone inside), and then I heard click and all of the sudden I am locked out of the car at the carwash. There's nothing like standing next to your car at the carwash for 45 minutes explaining to everyone who drives up to use the vacuums that you locked yourself out of the car to teach you humility.

When I got home, I put Titus down for his afternoon nap. When he awoke, I took Titus to the mall to finish up some shopping for Becky's birthday. It was a fun little trip - just the two of us. I have always taken the boys out shopping at Christmas and birthdays, but this was the first time it was just me and Titus. He was quite talkative in the car and smiled at all the ladies in the mall.

Sunday was a whirlwind. I taught Sunday School, but we were a little late as we took time at breakfast for Becky to open her gifts. Then we went to Snuffers for cheese fries and hamburgers (basically, a heart-attack on a plate of artery cloggin cheese and grease - but hey, it was Beck's birthday). After lunch, we took Noah to FBC Allen for the Collin County Associational Bible Drill. He got a PERFECT score. I was so proud of him - he has diligently applied himself and studied all year. He has now qualified for the Texas State Bible Drill in a few weeks.

On the way back to the house, we had to stop and celebrate at Braums with some ice cream. We sat and laughed with friends from church while wolfing down more ice cream/fat that probably did more artery cloggin than necessary for one day (but now we had two things to celebrate).

Back at the house, we did a quick clean up in preparation for Moral Innocence class while watching the Baylor vs Duke game. Baylor did great -wished they would have won. I don't think I have seen so many Baptists on their knees in a long time.

We have 8 couples joining us for the next 8 weeks for Reflections of Moral Innocence. What a great class and great couples! We have taught all of these couples at some time over the last few years, so it's always a blessing to have them back in our home and see how they are progressing with their parenting skills.

So in a way, after such a whirlwind, it's kind of nice to be at the office sitting still today. I'm headed off to Denver for a few days this week and then I'm looking forward to the celebration of Easter this weekend.

Titus seems to be doing better, but we will have him checked out with the pediatrician this week to assure his ear infection is clearing up and the fluid behind his ear has gone away.