Superbowl Shenanigans

We started off the day with our weekly dose of SonRise message, which, as always, was entirely applicable to the every day decisions and lives we live. That church is really growing on me, and I'm pretty excited to see how we can involve ourselves as the year moves on.

After church, we took off on a short journey to check out the drive time to Rob's new work! He starts tomorrow, and since his work is a block from one of my old soccer hangouts, I helped out with the navigation and we were there in no time. From there, it was breakfast at First Watch and some furniture shopping before we headed back home.

I left Rob to unwind for a little bit while Sydni and I tackled the weekly grocery list. Once that was out of the way, it was back home for some quick R&R before we loaded right back up to head over to Brittany's for the superbowl.

And no... in case you're wondering... no. No, we didn't really care who won the Superbowl. I wasn't that vested into either team this year, and although I do like Peyton Manning, I'll go ahead and admit that the final score didn't phase me all that much.

I wasn't alone. Sydni quickly made friends with Daisy, Brittany's dog.

syd & daisy ♥

such a sweet pup!

While she was doing that, we took to our usual get-together habits of finding other ways to entertain ourselves:

planks on planks on planks

First it was planks. We got comfortable after that and launched into a pyramid..

pyramid problems

And how do you properly finish a gameday basement workout?
Wall sits. The answer is wall sits.... apparently.

just.... yeah.

All the physical activity aside, we finally squeezed in some "normal" pictures for the albums. (:

adore this.

^^ Go ahead, get all your Charlie's Angels jokes out of the way. Beth's hair really isn't that red, but aside from that yes, we know we could easily pull this off for Halloween. And of course, the mini photo-bomber, who is clearly learning that art from me, but it's ok ;)

my absolute favorites.

^ My little family. We are a tiny bunch comprised of very different walks, but we're all together now, in the same city, under the same roof.... together. I sat back tonight after we got home and let myself be reminded how blessed I am to have the friends and family that I do.

Oh, and for all you Broncos fans out there : Reaaaally sorry about the game.. I hope you at least enjoyed the commercials! (:

xo | cmd

"Woot WOOOOT!"

Because I had to...
["Mik-Mik-Mik-Mik-MIKE!!"]


... & because Rob sent me this earlier this morning:

[Love him. The camel, too, but I meant Rob. Love him more ♥]

Today was in fact hump day... the good ol' mid-week that took its sweet little time passing by. On the bright side, tomorrow is Thursday and then it's Friday and then I head to Columbus with Sydni to celebrate her cousin Madison's 4th birthday! I'm not complaining, at all. It even rained some during the day; I never really know if it's raining or not out where I live, but... I thought perhaps volleyball would've somehow been spoiled.

Not even!

Kalyn & Keif were at the Reds game tonight off tickets that KP's dad bought, not realizing we had vollyball on Wednesdays, but it's okay. Beth recruited her friend Meg, and I somehow guilted Ladd to stand in as well, and our half-sub team did some WORK! We put up a couple WINS, so that's always a plus, too [Thanks, Ladd & Meg for standing in!].

OH.. and while all of that is just.. champion stuff, the most critical thing I wanted to post today was that Ryan & Octavian's surgery, aka that "Creccianu" [dubbed from a combination of their last names] yesterday was a success, and at this point the recovery is looking fantastic.

loveloveloveLOVE this!! [check out ryan's shirt!]

carrie & molly
happy birthday!

Amen? AMEN.

Also, happy birthday to the cutest pair of twins I've ever known.. and fellow adoptees, Molly & Carrie! I hope today's been fantastic for you girls! [& Congrats again Molly, on your engagement!!]

Today's pretty much been an awesome day. I topped it off with a Skype date with Rob, which has been a saving grace lately; I have no idea why we didn't think of this a couple of months ago, but it's been a recent thing and it's working out great. We're down to eight days until he comes to visit!!

We are all so blessed, all the way around.
I'll dream on that note, tonight (:

xo | cmd