Busy Weekend..

Whew!  This past weekend was busy busy!  We hosted eighth and ninth grade boys at our house for Disciple Now Weekend.  They arrived on Friday evening, and left on Sunday morning. They were so sweet and we had a lot of fun keeping them in our house.  We didn't even hear them at night and got a full night's sleep!  YAY!  But sidenote - whew! Our basement smelled a little FUNKY over the weekend!  HAHA!

One of our main tasks as a host home was to cook breakfast and lunch on Saturday.  We haven't cooked for that many hungry boys before..what an adventure...you should have seen our kitchen after pancakes and bacon.  It looked like a bomb had gone off!

Ryan is seriously pancake man extradordinaire!
And he had been working out before he cooked.
When the boys came up to eat he was like "uh, guys, just so you know, I don't normally
wear spandex shorts around the house!" HA!

One thing that was "interesting" this weekend was how excited Brynn was to hang out with the "boys" (as she would say).  She ate with them, wanted to go downstairs and play with them (clearly she didn't mind that funky smell!), and when they were downstairs doing their Bible Studies she would stand at the basement door and say "where boys?  Come on boys!"  HA!  She definitely showed off this weekend for them.  Ryan was like "oh my gosh, I need to be worried!"  HAHA!  We helped transport them to church for stuff, and she would say "church, boys!"



After the craziness of breakfast, Brynn had a birthday party for a little friend.  Poor Ryan got left with all the dishes while we headed off to Calla's party.  It was at a new little art studio in town, and the kids got to draw and paint all morning.

The birthday girl!

Then each kiddo got to paint their own little canvas...

She started with purple, and ended up with "mud."  HA!
I called it "the Mississippi River" by Brynn Bandermann!

When we got home Ryan had the kitchen sparkling...and then it was time to get ready for lunch! HA!  After lunch the boys went downstairs and did Bible Study and we all took a NAP and watched some basketball.  Then I had an Upward Game and Brynn and Ryan came to watch.  My parents met us at the game, and took Brynn home to play for the evening, and Ryan and I got to have our Valentine Dinner Date!  YAY!

I promise Ryan doesn't smile like this in real life.  He told me it was nerdy that I was taking a picture of us,
so I guess he wanted to make it really dorky with his cheesy smile!

We had a couple gift-cards to Outback and it was FABULOUS!  I think I could eat there every weekend!  HA!  We picked Brynn up from my parents and headed home for bed.  Ryan had to stay up a little later to go pick up the boys from their recreation time, but I was in bed early, reading and watching some tv!  This weekend was so much fun, but it WORE. ME. OUT!  After the boys left on Sunday morning, Brynn kept asking about them.  She's already excited about next year!