On the road again....

So....if you think of Doug...pray for him. :) I have to travel again this week and he will be a single daddy with Danika until I come home.

Fun stuff that happened over the weekend....

...Friday we added new people to our small group for church. So fun! We are taking an awesome group and expanding the fun. :) Every Tuesday Doug and I leave our small group and say, "I love our group." The people we are adding will bring even more fun and flavor to it, so I can hardly wait until tomorrow night to meet. When we started coming to McLane and heard them talk about small groups, we often heard the phrase "doing life together" as a way to describe the relationship you have with your group-mates. I think it is perfect...I can't think of a better way to describe it. These are the people that we set aside time to meet with every week to talk about the "guts" of life. It is so good for my heart. We pray for each other, discuss big decisions, and get advice. Sometimes we just need a sounding board, other times we just need to laugh. It is this place that we can talk about life, relationships, and God's word. Tough questions welcome. Broken hearts welcome. Celebrations welcome. All I can say is TOO COOL. I love this.

....Saturday Doug spent a good portion of the day working on a custom set of bookshelves for a side-job he took. That evening, we met several other couples down at Presque Isle for an evening of boating and socializing. Doug got to wakeboard, Danika got to play in the sand and pet doggies, and Andrea got to sit outside with some wonderful women and laugh. It was a great night. OH....and Danika was looking just stunning in her little bikini swimsuit. That unique little physique is hilarious....I have never seen such a huge belly on such a little person!

....Sunday, we went to church, which is always a highlight of the week. For real. I LOVE our church! I look forward to going and try to never miss. It is just too cool to miss out. I love to learn and be challenged and to sing and to worship and to socialize...all wrapped into a tight little 1.5 hour bundle. It's great. Doug and I were part of a recruiting video for the children's section called "PowerZone" and it played this week. It was the first we had seen the finished product. I learned that I am definitely a STAGE actor, not a video actor. I over-act SO badly on video! I am so used to being on stage where everything must be WAY OVER EMPHASIZED in order for the audience to see it. I had to stifle the laughter because I really wanted to laugh out loud at how ridiculous I looked. :)

After church we all took naps. :) What a glorious way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I love naps. They are such a happy thing. Then we ran various errands and finished off the weekend by renting a movie. It was just an overall wonderful easy-going weekend. I love those kinds of weekends.

But....now it is a busy week. You might not hear from me much...I've got a lot on my plate between now and Labor Day. Hope you all have a marvelous week. Leave a note and let me know how you are doing!

Love,
Andrea