Week in Review - 9/8/14-9/21/14

A short back story on the blog this week....and I open it by saying that it is amazing how God brings people into your lives.  Back a couple of months ago, I had advertised a baby item on one of the Greensboro "Yard Sale" Facebook pages.  When a lady contacted me telling me she'd be interested in buying it, I didn't think much of it.  After all, I have sold quite a bit via FB and Craigslist, and yet I never had over maybe 5 minutes of conversation with the person buying the item when I'd meet them in person.  Sort of a "Here it is, thanks for the money, and have a nice life thing."  So I had no reason to think this meeting would be any different.  But oh, how different it was!  When we met this couple to do our deal, we chatted with them briefly and found out they were new to the area and had just moved here from TX.  We talked about Greensboro neighborhoods, school districts, etc.  We told them if they needed any more info to feel free to contact me via text.  Well that offer turned into a few messages over FB.  And that turned into us having them over for dinner.  And all of this turned into us finding out that they have walked an incredibly similar infertility journey to us, twice (like us), and have two beautiful, amazing children to show for it.  It has been wonderful to meet a couple that understands our situation so perfectly and can be an encouragement to us!  Praise God for divine appointments!

So anyway, early this week (Tuesday), David went with Mr. L (for security reasons, I'm always nervous to write the names of my friends on the blog unless I know they are okay with it or unless they blog themselves, so this is my way of preserving their anonymity :-) ) to a men's minstry "sportsmen's banquet and wild game tasting" at Life Community, a local church here that they have been attending.  Meanwhile, Mrs. L and I took the kids and went to eat Mexican food while our guys did their thing.  As we waited for them, Joseph ran around the fountain at the shopping center where the Mexican place is...

AND, after we ate, he and Addison L. (age 4) ran around the fountain some more!  It was after dark then, but goodness, did they have fun!  The funny part came when they were running so fast that Joseph's pants fell straight down.  Since we cloth diaper a lot, and cloth diapers are thicker and bulkier than disposables, most of his pants are pretty stretched out ("cloth diaper butt").  Thus, when he does wear a disposable, his pants have a hard time staying up!  And this is exactly what happened Tuesday night.  Of course, my camera is never on the appropriate setting when I need it in a hurry, so really, in these pics, you can't even totally tell what happened .  But it was certainly amusing!

I'm finding it hard to be consistent about taking pictures of our school stuff each week because I tend to be using both hands to help Jojo with whatever activity we are doing.  But I did manage to snap a quick pick of the very cute book we used for school this week - "One Duck Stuck."  So funny.

This weekend was the annual Winston-Salem Air Show.  We love the air show and go most years, but this year we were afraid it would be a little too noisy for Joseph's little ears (and we didn't have any little toddler headphones).  So we decided to skip this year.  We really miss the planes when we don't go, though, so we decided to try to see some anyway!  A lot of them, especially the military planes, fly to and from PTI in Greensboro to refuel or land.  So, we decided to grab some lunch at take it to a picnic table at the Farmer's Market (near PTI) to see if we could catch a glimpse (and at a distance that isn't so noisy).  The Farmer's Market was having a wine festival and was packed, and the sky was very cloudy, so we had no luck seeing anything.  But we gave it a shot at least (and we did HEAR some planes, just couldn't see them).

Cloudy day Chick-fil-a picnic at the Farmer's Market

Wine Festival happening in distance.

This is David stalking a bee that kept landing around our food.

And this was David and Joseph celebrating just after said bee was killed!

And of course, everyone has to take time to actually walk through the Farmer's Market while you are there!

Love seeing the pumpkins and gourds out...hello Fall!

Saturday night, we went with my parents and grandmother out to Country Kitchen on Hicone Road for dinner.  When David and I were dating/engaged and he was living in Gibsonville, Country Kitchen was a regular spot for us.  It is a casual little restaurant in a strip center - not very exciting on the outside.  But it's really yummy and the staff is always so friendly.  We have committed to making quarterly trips out there for dinner! 

Country Kitchen, in all it's glory :-)

David and Joseph practice some high-fiving while we wait for our food.

Joseph loved riding on GreatMimi's lap and playing with her cane on our way out

So there it is, our week in a nutshell!  We have lots of fun things coming up to document this week, too.  Love all the fun that early autumn brings!