Right around the time I was wanting to post (about 2.6 weeks ago!!) I kinda sliced my finger in two different places and it was a little difficult to type. Long story short, I was making center pieces with the large glass bowls and one shattered (yea, apparently I'm strong enough to break one with three fingers..) and it cut me pretty bad. Bad enough to leave a small chunk of my finger in what was left of the bowl, my finger bleeding for a few hours, me almost passing out (several different times), and for me to still be typing this very post without using my left pointer finger. It's been almost three weeks and I still have battle scars. But hey, I'm getting pretty good with this one hand+one finger typing thing...
Along with that drama I spent a week up in Topeka doing another training for work. It was lonely without James but I compensated by hitting up the local mall. :) Let me just say, it was nice having so much variety in department stores and restaurants. I haven't had options like that in quite awhile. But I guess that's the price you have to pay when living on the prairie...I think James is glad the closest decent mall is an hour or more away. Oh, and Red Robin?! I totally hit that up twice..in three days...than again the next week when I was up there for another training. Yea, a little addicted. But I probably won't be having that for a few months, so whatevs.
Following my week in the big old city of Topeka, one of our close friends Scott Kabel flew in for a few days. Our five church district planned a Sabbath in the park and Scott was the guest speaker for the weekend. We had a beautiful Agape Feast and vespers on Friday night at one of the churches, then Saturday we did church in the park with lunch, a photo scavenger hunt in our zoo, and then Scott did a small concert for everyone. It was a gorgeous day and we had people come from 11 different churches! It was awesome. Here are a few pictures from that weekend.
The middle of the following week was our second anniversary. Yep, the big two. I still can't believe we've been married for two years. Time sure does fly, especially when you're having adventures. We kept it pretty simple since it was the middle of the week and we had a lot going on the following weekend. I was in charge of making dinner (Enchiladas!) and James was to make the dessert (a graham cracker, strawberry, whipped cream dessert that was so tasty!). It turned out so good. Then we drove to Elk City Lake which is about 2 miles behind our house to close the evening with a nice sunset. It was pretty perfect. Check out some of the photos.
Like I said before, the following weekend was busy, busy, busy. One of my closest and dearest friends (Miss Abagail!!) got married and I was in the wedding so we flew to Orlando, FL for four days. It was a gorgeous weekend and we had a blast catching up and finishing the wedding details for the big day. I wish I had taken more photos but I was pretty busy and enjoying spending as much time with Abby and the rest of our friends and family as I could get. James's mom, step dad, his brother Robert, and our nephew came up to see us while we were there too! Such a wonderful weekend. Here are some photos from it :)
My mother-in-law and my 6"4' nephew. He's only 16!
Mama Barb and my little sis from another miss--Bri!
So glad to see them :)
The Beautiful bride :)
Random shot!
They're married!
Gorgeous table settings
