One CrAzY Week

This has been a very fun-filled week involving lots of staying up very late. I started out on Tuesday evening going to my Jujitsu class after a long hiatus due to Pneumonia and recovery. It was fun and I felt good afterwards. Then on Wednesday Caroline, Dan, Jordan his five year old and I all went to church for our first Wednesday service. It was great. Pastor Jay gave us a message about the woman at the well, and everybody having a story to tell about their encounter with Jesus... and how that story is powerful. It was really good. On Thursday Nick had to go to M.E.P.S. to do some entry stuff for getting into the Marine Corps. They put him up in a hotel and that next morning he finished up everything he had to go except they still needed to have him, "Swear in" and couldn't work him through, causing him to go back again Sunday evening to spend the night and stay all day today down there just to do one thing. The military works really silly.

Anyways, back to Thursday. Thursday evening Caroline and I went up to see Shane and Rachel at the shop, and had a very deep conversation with "The Ricky" about spiritual responsibility and not giving up. God has certainly knitted us with some very good friends lately, and it is awesome. So after talking and encouraging our friend for over an hour, we felt even closer knitted to God's purpose and to our relatively new group of friends God is connecting us with.

Friday we spent the evening with Dan and Molly in what was going to be a "dance party" at Molly's house. After of course getting in several games of hardcore spades! I distinctly remember Nick saying something about everyone laying a guilt trip on him too, and emphasizing it with a hard setting down of his drink. All in good fun naturally. The dance party never materialized, but it was a good night all the same.

Saturday we had lots of company. Shaun, Deanna and Brandon came up from Charlotte and spent the night with us. Shaun and Brandon served with me in the Marine Unit I was a part of while in the Navy. We all had several games of spades and a big cook out at Dan & Molly's, and then moved the party back over to our house where it continued until very late in the evening. Memorable moment of the night... Team Slayers both planting a big ole kiss on my rear end for losing the game after lots of smack talking. Aka Caroline and Nick. I only wish there had been a camera. Oh the memories. So basically we had alot of fun and then ended up spread out all over the house.

Sunday we saw our guests off, and had a very relaxed day. Nick headed back down to finish up his stuff as I mentioned before, and I didn't clean up a thing. I just took it easy all day and that evening we hooked up with Shane and Rachel at the shop once more with the intention of getting together to spend time in small group prayer and praise. That never ended up happening because of some other things that came up, however we did have another very long talk about spiritual gifts and lots of good solid meat stuff. I really love Shane and Rachel. They are so awesome. After we got home, Dan the Iceman stopped by and we had a good time just hanging out and talking.

So that has been most of our week. Sorry for not blogging for a bit, but today is the first time I have sat down at a computer all week except to burn a CD or turn on music.