Week's recap

Wow... busy week behind us, busy week ahead of us. Thought I'd recap it now before the weekend's over. Seems strange to be thinking of the weekend already when it's barely Wednesday, but in a moment you'll see why.

Friday night was an impromptu game night at John Paul and Leah's house-- pretty much our last kid-free opportunity to do so. Saturday night, joint birthday celebration for Davey and Matt. Sunday, instead of heading out to our usual restaurant after services, we hit Davey and Cherise's place for homemade breakfast = fundraiser for their mission trip to the orphanage in South Africa.

Enjoyed Monday's holiday off. I slept :-) Allan went by himself to see "Tropic Thunder" with our friends. Apparently I didn't miss much.

Tuesday: first day of school. Todd won't start till next week (more on why in a bit), but last night we had dinner with the other Kindergarten parents, kids, headmaster and deacon of Todd's new school. It was nice to get to meet everyone. Todd's class will be small-- there's only 6 of them in grade K, 3 boys and 3 girls.

Wednesday: tonight we're having part 1 of our church's "Four Course Connection"-- basically, every week a group of 8-10 of us gather in someone's home, bringing part of a meal course. This is the first week, so it's appetizers/finger foods. We're going with the classic sliced tomatoes+mozzarella, drizzled in olive oil and sprinkled with fresh basil and ground pepper.

Tomorrow morning we head out to our work's Tech Retreat. We'll stay at Pismo Beach, where Thursday will consist of team-building activities, and Friday is choose your own activity (kayaking, Hearst Castle, wine tasting, or Hummers on the dunes). We chose to tour Hearst Castle. I'm not much for wine, I don't do adventure sports, I hate sand, and I've already driven a REAL Hummer. Besides, I haven't seen Hearst Castle :-) Anyway, since we're out of town Thursday and Friday, we decided to keep Todd in LA an extra week, which is why he's starting school a bit later.

Friday evening we get home and after a brief rest for dinner, I gotta head to LA to pick up little man and bring him back Saturday evening. Sunday afternoon is the school's welcome-back barbecue at the beach, and then Monday morning our summer vacation is over. We settle back into the family routine of work, school and child care.

So... no Friday Five this week. Which is a bummer because it's Jenna's birthday then (Happy Birthday!) and it'd be a perfect time to do a birthday-themed Friday Five. Probably no blogging until a week from now, as each day will be jam-packed with activity until then. Maybe I can do a belated "Friday Five" next week ;-)

Till then!