What a Weekend

Wow. It's Monday. Seems like the weekend was WAY too short. We were busy this weekend, but in a good way.

Friday afternoon AJ took a couple of hours off and we went mattress shopping. You have to understand that we have never owned a new mattress, so this was an adventure! I was a little worried about taking the kids along since kids tend to want to climb all over things and whatnot, but I discovered that mattress shopping really isn't so bad with them. I mean, you can't really tell them not to climb on the bed displays when mom and dad are wallering around on them! I guess the salespeople expect that seeing how people need to know how the mattress feels if they are going to buy one.

The kids were disappointed that I wouldn't entertain the idea of purchasing the bunk beds with a SLIDE on the end for them. Yes, that's right. The bed had a SLIDE. Now tell me, just how much sleeping goes on in a bed with a slide???

Anyway, we had a good time. We looked at furniture too and I'm still recovering from sticker shock on some of the bedroom sets we saw. There are some beautiful pieces of furniture out there... a style and color for every taste. But I'm kinda cheap... so I can't fathom spending that kind of money on something I don't really NEED right now. Besides, I could buy a pretty nice used car for the same money! LOL! (Reminds me of a joke, "You can sleeps in yo car, but you can't drives yo furniture!")

We did end up buying a mattress. I let AJ pick it out. He's the one who's been having trouble sleeping. I could sleep anywhere, anytime, so I wasn't much help. I tried them all out too though, and told him at one point (while I was laying on a particularly comfy one) if he didn't make up his mind soon, I would prove to them I could sleep anywhere, anytime! :)

A friend of ours helped AJ pick up the mattress on Saturday. I posted the old set on Freecycle (check it out if you haven't already, there's usually a group in most cities: http://www.freecycle.org/) and within three minutes of the post someone called and asked if they could come look at it. By the time AJ got back with the new mattress, the people had already picked up the old ones! Gotta love Freecycle.

So after laundering the new sheets (the price on these caused another case of sticker shock...), and getting the bed set up, we slept like babies!

Sunday was awesome. Yesterday was the final chapter of the couples class AJ and I have been teaching. We led a group through the book, Men are like Waffles, Women are like Spaghetti, by Bill and Pam Farrel, over the past seven weeks. It was a good study and we had a really good time doing it. So after the morning service, we treated our class to a spaghetti lunch at the church. We had a good time visiting and laughing about some of the truths we learned and capped it off with ice cream in waffle cone bowls to complete the theme. If you're interested, check out the book here: http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?event=AFFp=&item_no=919619&session_id=1456965

Yesterday evening we had a chili cookoff at church which was also a lot of fun (although I'm sure there are several of us paying for it today!) We ate chili and had a good time of fellowship followed by an AWESOME performance of the Gospel Bluegrass band Triple "L" out of Portales, NM. They are made up of a mom, dad and three sons who have all been blessed with superb musical talent. I admit I'm a little bit of a hick and I actually LIKE bluegrass, but I don't know how anyone could not appreciate the amazing abilities these folks displayed. It was so much fun and such an uplifting, light-hearted experience to hear them play. Check them out here: http://www.triplelband.com/

So although we had a busy weekend, it was fun and was over way too soon. However, I was THRILLED to walk out into the nippy fall air this morning when I took Zack to school. Thank heavens for cold fronts! Maybe fall is here after all!