Bring On the New: Turning 30

As it turns out, turning 30 is pretty much like turning 29. Even though my good friend next door at school insists that I will look older when I go in on Monday. It really was a whirlwind weekend. Friday night we celebrated the wedding of a family friend, and looked pretty sharp for it, if I do say so.

This is my husband with the pastor and youth pastor - the only time you will catch these ministry men in ties is a wedding. Go figure.

Saturday morning, Charlie and I got up early and went garage saling. I got a TON of clothes for Miss Lucy and some stuff for my nephew. Then we headed to the Farmer's Market, which opened today! It was a little sparse, but they had kettle corn, so we didn't complain. We headed home and joined our neighborhood in our annual Easter Egg Hunt:

And then we headed to lunch, where Charlie and I shared free dessert:

Then we took the boys to the barber:

And then we headed home where the kids napped, Daddy did yardwork, and Mommy TOOK A NAP! Glorious. We ate Chinese for dinner and headed out to the International Students Cookout where Doc let us drive the tractor:

And the International students admired Lucy:

And Lynda got a special cake for me and one of the other International Students, who was also celebrating a birthday:

And of course, what cookout is complete without s'mores?

We ended the evening in my favorite manner - reading in bed. I start teaching this book this week and it is officially one of my favorite books of all time:

Sunday we headed out to church. I wasn't on worship team or tech team, but I had to be there for the mission moment in both services and a meeting between services for our new connect group. Details later...

We rushed home so we could eat and head out to baseball practice, but...

See all those storm clouds? It didn't last long. So instead we came home, and while both kids napped, we did laundry and cleaned up. And then I got the bright idea to go shopping and, well...

I went to the Pink Suitcase. I feel supremely guilty about this because Lindsey, Jenny, and Jolie have been trying to find a time for all of us to go and I asked them to wait until my birthday so I would have birthday money to spend. In my defense, I wasn't going to go in at all, but it seemed a shame to waste a trip to the mall without kids, so I thought I'd just look. Then I thought I'd just try on. Then I thought I'd just, well, buy. :( Sorry, ladies. But on the upside, Rick really liked it and I have a dress to wear for Easter next week!

We ended the evening by dyeing Easter Eggs using food coloring and shaving cream, which you can see in the corner of this picture. I will do a post later on how exactly to do this and how they turned out for us. The real fun was when we covered the table with shaving cream and all three of us played. (We did this after Lucy went to bed - she would have wanted to join in the fun by eating it.)