Two steppin' three day weekend

 

Now that it's almost time for this weekend I'd better do a quick blogging catch up about last weekend. Don't you just love 3 day weekends? Even as a stay at home mom I still think they are fun! 

Our weekend fun started Friday night when I met up with Ryan at the C3 Conference hosted by Fellowship Church. This conference is designed to encourage and teach pastor's and church staff during the day and offer good teaching with exciting worship in the evenings. I joined Ryan there on Wednesday and Friday nights, taking advantage of the free childcare they provided. (Sidenote: both times I picked Eva up from the childcare I was told that she was such an extremely friendly child. Yep. That's my little girl. She loves people). I really enjoyed the C3 conference, especially the time spent getting to hear different speakers share their stories. 

On Saturday we sent Eva to go spend the night at Nana and Papa's house. We had to drop her off for the night because we had a packed night starting with dinner at Pappasito's to celebrate my BFF Erica's 29th birthday! Holla! Happy Birthday, girl! You have a full year to countdown to the big 3-0. 

All my best friend's and our hubbies had a delicious dinner and then we headed out to do some country dancing. Erica was seriously one of the best dancers out on the floor. We used to go together back in college and her talent for dancing has far surpassed mine.  

My dance partner. It was good to get to dance with this handsome fellow. I really don't think we've gone country dancing since we've been married (maybe once?) which is crazy because we went a lot back when we were dating. We should go again sometime soon!

Sunday afternoon I picked Eva up from Nana and Papa's and we went to stay the night with my parents while Ryan went out of town with some youth. Eva really liked playing my parent's piano - what a budding musician! She was also thrilled to spend some time playing with my parents' two big dogs. She would sit on them and chase them and pat them - it was all amusing to her. I have a great video but my phone and computer won't upload it right so you will just have to trust me that she really likes dogs. Really.

We finally headed home on Monday afternoon. It was good to be gone out of the house for a while this weekend, but that munchkin definitely had some pay back or adjustment time on Tuesday. She was very clingy and emotional. At first I was worried that she might be sick but then it hit me that she just needed to know that her routine and normal life were still good. So I spent the day giving her extra love and being extra patient. And now I'm ready for more fun this weekend!