Friday Friday Friday.  Oh how I love you.

I have a busy weekend ahead of me!!  Not ideal after an exhausting week, but it’s all fun things so I’m excited.  First up, my friend Laura and I are resuming our summer tradition of Friday after work walking around a lake (which is less than a half mile from my apartment…which is fun because last year we both had to drive to this lake…now I can walk there) and then going out for happy hour somewhere.    We like to think the 3 mile walk counteracts any drinks and cheesy/chocolatey/unhealthy-y we consume at happy hour.

In the morning I’m volunteering at a nursing home.  We’re putting on a “Mother’s Day Brunch”.  I’m super excited because I love nursing homes.  Katie does not.  She would never voluntarily go to a nursing home (unless of course someone we knew lived there but still I think she would rather pick them up and bring them back to her house).

Sunday I get to go to my niece’s award ceremony for memorizing a million Bible verses.  (Or maybe 10?  I have no idea. It’s just cool that’s she’s 4 and memorized anything for longer than a day.)  I want to bring her a present like balloons, hot chocolate or a fish (don’t tell Katie).  What’s an appropriate gift for a 4 year old?  Actually, don’t answer that…I’m the aunt so I don’t have to follow the rules.

Maybe I’ll go big and get her a kitten.

Katie would love it.  Her husband would not.  Maybe I’ll stick with the fish.

We also have our brother’s birthday party on Sunday!  Woohoo!!  He’s turning the big 3-0!!

We’re sure it’ll be awesome and there will be no tears.  Nobody likes tears on birthdays anyhow.  We’re going to grill out and play yard games and I’m going to bake my famous Super Star cookies.  I used to make our brother and his friends cookies ALL the time so I decided to call them Jen’s Super Star cookies.  I haven’t made them in almost 10 years so this could be a little dicey.

All in all, it’ll be a glorious weekend (I hope). 

On a side note, I wonder how many people have cried on their birthday.  I would guess 85% of the world.  Too high?  Too low?  Katie’s done it.

Today is an exciting day for us because we are GUEST POSTING over at View Along The Way!  We seriously LOVE Kelly and are super excited to be on her awesome blog today.  We are finally showing the finished product of our trunk makeover, so if you want to see how this turned out,

head over to View Along The Way!

And for those of you who have stopped in from View Along The Way…WELCOME!!  We are so glad you are here!  If you want to find out more about who we are and what we blog about, feel free to go to this post.  We look forward to making some new friends and discovering some amazing new blogs, so let us know you stopped by!

Sometimes I think my mama and I are twins.

Well maybe if I looked 10 years older since my mom looks like she’s 37.  We do have matching fashionABLE scarves on though (more on those later!!).

Anyways, back to why we’re twins.  She made this facebook status yesterday:

I am so glad I read this today…….

Like · · Share · about an hour ago ·

Naturally, since she is my mother, I clicked on the link.  And y’all, I am so so glad I did.

You see, the post that Emily writes is all about a lesson I learned while on the World Race, but sometimes lessons on the mission field are lost when you get back to real life.  (They used to always yell at us when we called living in America “real life” but seriously, the World Race is not like real life….more on that later too maybe…)

It’s a lesson about being weary.  It’s a lesson about not holding onto things that cause us to feel weary (big things like the fact that I might be single for the rest of my life to little things like dirty cars, no food in the fridge and hair that doesn’t do anything I want it to) but casting them onto Christ because He WANTS us to.

No joke.  He doesn’t want us to hold onto things that make us worried or stressed.  He wants to give us His peace.

But Emily says all of this way more eloquently than I do so please, go read her post.  And then go rest in God.

YAY!!  Friday!!!  I thought you’d never come.  Last weekend I had a nice case of food poisoning so my Saturday evening and Sunday were spent in the bathroom or on the couch.  It was pretty miserable.  Monday and Tuesday I was feeling icky so it’s been a rough week.  I’m hoping this weekend will be MUCH better than last.

I’m planning on spending this evening at Katie’s working on her kids’ room.  We have to make it more boy for when THE BOY comes home.  We just call him THE BOY right now since they have no idea what to name him.  I told her she better get on it because THE BOY could come tomorrow.  Or today.  Or right now.

My ideas for THE BOY are Krishna (from the hippy-dippy names list), Delbert (from the grandma/grandpa names that are cool again list) or Brahlan (from the most unusual picks in the top 1000 US names list).  These are serious lists.  But not serious names for THE BOY.  Although I’m taking a liking to Brahlan.  And Krishna.  Not Delbert though.  Sorry, that isn’t a cool grandpa name yet.  Seriously though people this is a serious problem.  Give us your most unique but not weird boy names.  Ready…go.

Speaking of babies, have you seen this nursery reveal??

It’s legit.  Clearly.  It from our girl Kelly from View Along the Way.  Go check it out.  We’re going to try to channel our inner Kelly and whip up a few pinwheels in Katie’s kids’ room like she has in her nursery.  It’s a good thing she has a tutorial. 

Speaking of Kelly, she had Holly from Life as a Thrifter be a guest blogger recently and ever since I’ve been hooked.  (Aren’t I super amazing with the segue today??)   She has lots of happy, colorful decorating which I’m totally digging.  I think we’d be friends.  Go check out her blog.

{image via Life as a Thrifter}

Last but not least, I’m loving this pin.

So Happy Weekend everyone!  Hope it’s amazing for you all (especially you mothers out there)!!