I Leave for a Couple of Days and This is What Happens???

Last week at VBS PandaPop challenged the kids to raise a certain amount of money for our missions emphasis and if they met it he would dye his hair green. Well, apparently they did it. LOL!!!! I think he looks so fabulous!!!! We got the idea because our Spicy Family friends did this a couple of years ago with the children's ministry where they served and we thought it was a great way for the kids to really "get" that their Children's Minister was serious about his work.



I====ADORE=====THIS=====MAN!!!!!!!

Now, on to my girls' weekend.....

These little chickadees below were my college best friends for two years. We met up at our local junior college and then all headed on to other pursuits with university or career after those two years. I LOVE these girls! We had so much fun back then and were very close in that short time period. Lots of pictures, laughs and memories made way back then. Over the years we have talked about getting together, but you know how that goes...no one ever makes the actual plans. Well, one of my sweets did and wahlah!---we did it! They all know that we are trying to raise money for our adoption so they all pitched in and paid my part of our hotel expense. Thank you, girls!!! We stayed up both nights talking until 2:30 AM and 3:30 AM. Y'all KNOW I am NOT a night person, so for me to stay up that late...it must've been good! ; )

The weekend couldn't have been more blessed. We had all prayed that nothing would interfere with our plans to meet and left the rest up to whatever tickled our fancy. We ate chocolate, looked at everyone's pictures, strolled down memory lane, shopped, laughed, cried, listened to each others stories over the last umpteen years, went to the movies, ate some more, checked out our wrinkles and completely enjoyed ourselves when some college frat boys tried talking to us!!! (No, we are not cougars! HA!!!)

This is us in 1991 on our very last day to hang out since one of us got married and moved out of state. We actually met up again the next year for her baby shower, but other than that we haven't really seen each other except on a few occasions and never all of us together over the years.

Friday night we went to a great Tex-Mex restaurant, sat outside along a very busy metropolitan street filled with "Friday night life" people. Fun, but very eye opening to my little "Christian Bubble" that I live in. It wasn't like I was in some foreign country, but rather 15 minutes from my house! Dallas, TX is a happenin' kinda place and I saw waaaaaaay more than I do on a normal basis. LOL!

What better movie to see with your best girlfriends?! I have to preface with the fact that the first half of the movie I was NOT liking it at all because of the overt sexuality and inuendo. I don't like that kind of humor. BUT------the music is all fun and then the movie got REALLY good! The actual Mamma Mia scene is probably one of the best ones on screen! SO incredibly FUN! Then there is a song that the mom sings about her grown daughter who is getting married and she sings "Slipping through my fingers..." After the first verse all four of us (who all have daughters) were BAWLING and handing out the tissues! We all want the soundtrack as a memory of our fabulous weekend together!

Saturday after the movie we ate at this very chic Japanese restaurant. You know I have PandaGirl from China, one girl lived in Korea with her hubby in the military and another in Japan with her hubby in the military as well. Yeah, we're all pros with chopsticks. ; )

I don't even remember how it got started, but while in college we somehow started taking "bathroom pictures" at every restaurant or place we went, so of course, we had to have one this weekend! LOL!

My heart is so full of thankfulness right now and I am reeling in from the range of emotions over the last couple of days. Now, it's back to reality and I have to go unpack!

Wordless Wednesday-#23 Boys & Their Toys

We Miss YOU, PandaPop!

PP is gone to a Children's Ministry conference and will finish tomorrow. We are so spoiled because our little threesome doesn't really have to spend the night away from each other much. PandaGirl and I made a special dinner on Monday night for him complete with cute decor, a yummy enchilada soup and chocolate pudding for dessert! We also gifted him with a goody bag full of his favorite snacks. He loves it when we dote on him! ; ) Tonight is going to be stormy so PandaGirl and I are "staying up late" and she is getting to sleep with me...girls' night! We just got home from a great meal at an AWESOME friend's house! Thanks Lisa!!


This was our Monday night meal:


Hope you are having a fabulous time PandaPop! Hurry home!!!

My Sexiest Man!

Humor me for a second. I am aware that you probably won't "go there" with me on this one, but you just have to take my word for it.

This picture of Matt Damon on the magazine cover does him NO justice!!! He really is a darling with a dazzling smile. They really could have taken a much better pic to claim he is the Sexiest Man Alive, I think. However, I have said from the first movie in which I saw him that he always reminded me of PandaPop. You have to know PP's gorgeous smile in person, sans the gotee and take some weight off his face in order to see what I see.

I have always known that my sweet man is THE sexiest man alive. ; ) What I didn't know was that the rest of the world thought so, too! LOL! I told PP that I was going to post this and he just rolled his eyes and said, "Whatever, you're crazy."

They might not pass for twins, that PandaPop and ol' Matt, but they sure could pass for brothers. Oh, if that's the case then you have to add Mark Wahlberg in the mix as their little brother! If you don't agree, that's ok because this one-sided blog is basically for the playground in my little mind anyway. I'm going to go kiss the face of...the sexiest man alive.


Matt Damon

The best pic I could find that was already on the computer of PandaPop

Mark Wahlberg

Happy 38th Birthday My LOVE!

Thank you for being the amazing man of my dreams! I LOVE that you are 38 today and that I have been around to celebrate 16 of those years! Though things are crazy right now with this move I hope you have a wonderful day full of JOY! I love you infinity X 2!

30 Day Honor Your Hubby Challenge!

A great blogger over at Fruit in Season has put out a challenge to make a commitment of making our husbands top priority and show them the honor due them as the spiritual head of the household. One of the biggest blessings in my life is my marriage. God has blessed me and my best friend with a very open, loving, honest, caring marriage. There is always room for growth and improvement, however. I am joining these other bloggy women in the next 30 days to make PandaPop aware that I see him as my HERO and the man of my dreams. My goals are:

~Daily pray for him through using the Power of a Praying Wife book.

~Greet him at the door with a kiss instead of waiting for him to drop off his things, walk in the room and find me doing whatever it is I'd be doing.

~NOT gripe or whine about anything as the first words out of my mouth in any given situation.

~Speak words of life, encouragement and respect to show him honor.

Let's see how I do with these. I can only imagine GOOD coming from this. Like I said, we have a very fun, loving relationship. I am excited to see it grow with a little extra effort.

Memory Lane Monday #12-Daddy Dear

PandaPop is the most amazing daddy in the world! I love these sweet pictures of him and PandaGirl in China and then the last pic is of them last night reading together. He is the godly example he has been called to be and shows PG and I the kind of love that relects our heavenly Father's love. I am so grateful to be called his wife and adore him as PG's daddy.

That's my man!!!

PandaPop is so great with his hands! We need some new shelving in our office and he just went and bought the wood and built the thing!!! He loves doing productive things with his hands. Since his "line of work" being in ministry has countless and unseen outcomes of his effort it can get discouraging sometimes not "seeing" something come of his work. When he makes something from scratch then there is great satisfaction of making something from nothing. He is so good at what he does and I love him! This shelf is GORGEOUS in real life!