Weekend, To Do's & Surprises

The Weekend: 

• Friday I had a potluck dinner meeting with my youth board that was fun. We discussed LOTS of NYG stuff so hopefully we're getting things figured out-- YIKES. 
• Saturday was a lazy, lazy day spent purchasing craft items for Children's Church and the Good Friday service THEN cleaning at home whilst the hubs cleaned the furnace filters AND reassembled the BBQ pit. Productivity=Awesome. 
• Sunday was crazy busy with church, children's message, Sunday school, church, Good Friday service practice, FISH (where we made a snow Jesus on the lake!) and a yummy, yummy dinner. 
• My Monday has been spent cleaning, stuffing eggs with goodies for the Easter Festival Saturday and (soon) dishes, laundry, shower, groceries, reading and posting.
  

To Do List-Work: 

• Preschool Easter Story (Tuesday & Wednesday)
• Confirmation End-of-Year Test and Good Friday Service (GFS) practice (Wednesday)
• Breakfast Bible Study, Maundy Thursday Seder Meal & Worship and GFS set-up (Thursday)
• GOOD FRIDAY WORSHIP (Friday, duh)
• Easter Festival (Saturday)
• Easter services & breakfast (Sunday)
• Other things: NYG stuff, postcards & newsletters, and FIND. MY. DESK.

To Do List- School & Home: 

• SCHOOL: Read, read and freaking read; Write another 3-page paper-- this time on Men's Warehouse (yes, the store); Interview sister and friend for group project on Disney; coordinate said group so we can actually function as a group for the project
• HOME: file the HUGE pile of papers sitting next to the filing cabinet (find lost check?), clean bathroom, laundry, pack up wedding left-overs in garage, bring up lamp from garage for bedside lamp, clean off dining room table

Surprises:

DH and I have been looking for a way to thank my folks for throwing such an awesome party back in September (aka our wedding). We were hoping to pay for a vacation or weekend away but with finances such as the are (and with my car being a money pit and our fridge dying) we decided to go with the smaller scale: We bought them tickets to see Jeff Dunham next Thursday night in Sacramento. My dad, for reasons I'm sure I don't need to mention, is mostly excited to see the Dead Terrorist. My mom is excited to see him live versus on her iPhone. (It's the simple things in life!) So, SURPRISE!

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Other than all of this life is good. I can't really complain. Of course I wish we had just a bit more money so we can afford to fix my car (that's a whole other post!), sweep the furnace's chimney, and buy a new fridge. But, alas, we do not BUT we are healthy and so are our friends and family. 

Say a prayer that my dad finds a job soon!

Birthdays

Philip's not one for surprises. He doesn't like them at all really. I think the only time I surprised him was with the beaver mitts I bought him as a wedding present-- but then again that probably wasn't a surprise. Nevertheless with his birthday only two weeks away, I was researching the perfect gift and discovered it was probably something he'd like to pick out himself so... here it is:

Happy Birthday, DH!

Yes, he picked it out himself-- true enough. BUT in my defense it was the EXACT camera I thought of purchasing prior to him picking it out.

On another note, after purchasing it online yesterday I received a call AT 5 A.M. from their customer service folk because DH typed our zip code in wrong. Joy. I'm pretty sure they talked me into buying more than we had originally planned but that's what happens when you call Jamie and she's still sleeping.

*DH=Dear Husband for those of you who aren't in the online lingo :-P