Busy Busy

With this being the last week before school starts, we've got a lot going on as we try to fit in last minute hang-out time with the students before they're tied up with school and extra-curriculars. One of the best parts of all this is that it's forced me to clean our home and keep it that way.

Summer weather finally arrived in Oregon in August, so a lot of our time has been spent outside. Last Sunday, we went to 2 cook-outs in one day. That meant no cooking all day and lots of delicious free food! I'll take that any day.

Tuesday night we had our high school swimming party at this AMAZING house:

Tonight we'll host our young adult small group at our apartment since the usual hosts are out of town. They're also about 7 months pregnant with twins, so we're praying about finding a new location to meet beginning soon. I'm very torn about whether we are able to host or not. I love having people over and my apartment will be cleaner this way, but with all the youth group activities we're already involved in, we're trying to decide if it will be too much to take on.

Tomorrow night we're having a couple over for dinner and then we're all going to watch Inception again. The husband is on staff at the church and works with Kory, so we were visiting with them at a church event recently and all decided we wanted to see that movie again because it is THAT incredible. It's worth watching many times.

Saturday, I have two baby showers to attend. One is for the daughter of one of my co-workers and the other is for our small group friends who are expecting twins. I have bought diapers and wipes for both of them because apparently the new trend is to ask people to bring those and then they enter you in a drawing to win prizes. The number of entries you get is based on the number of diapers/wipes that you bring. Then, you're supposed to bring a gift on top of that...very tricky, I tell ya! After seeing the price of diapers recently, I totally understand the need for other people to buy diapers for you. Wow they're expensive!

Sunday, we'll have the High Schooler's over to our apartment for dinner and Bible Study. We did this two weeks ago and had 25 people to fit in our little apartment! It was insane, and awesome at the same time. Here you can see all the people crammed into our living room...there are even a few people beside and behind me when I took the picture that you can't see here.

Redeemer's just purchased a new building for the youth group, so hopefully in a few weeks they'll be meeting there for youth group activities. I love having kids over, but the lingering stench of that many sweaty teens was a bit much for me to handle. All the Scentsy in the world can't overpower that smell!