love today.

Have I mentioned how we love having people at our house? Well, we do. It wouldn't be a weekend without overnight guests each night, and this weekend was no exception. Mattearley came Thursday night and stayed through Friday night for his last weekend of drill. He is officially out of the Marine Corps after serving his 6 years! Yay! He was so excited!

Friday night Mary Shelton and Hayden spent the night. For Hayden's 5th grade graduation we gave her a coupon for a dinner-movie-slumber party night, and she cashed it in :). We ate at Sticky Fingers (her choice) and rented He's Just not That Into You on demand. We made cookies and had a blast! Saturday morning David made his signature pancakes (with chocolate chips) and we lounged around in our pjs- the best Saturday morning activity! MS and Jen came back over after working out and joined us for our second round of Clue. Yep, we love old school board games (though Clue has gotten a face lift since we were kids) and are working on quite a collection already. Love this sweet girl. We can't believe she is in middle school now! And yes, she is really that tan and I am really that pale. Awesome.

Saturday night we joined up with Matt & Rachel to watch the second half (I didn't think I could make it through the heat of the first half... the second half was sweaty enough, even at 8:30) of the Chattanooga FC game. It was AWESOME! We had so much fun, and so did the 2,000 other people at Finley Stadium! I couldn't believe the turnout! The night got even better as we made our way to Clumpies for some ice cream (note: still sweating, ice cream was mandatory) where we ran into our dear friends the Harrisons! We could have chatted all night. I just LOVE that we live in Chattanooga. I can't say or express it enough. Love. it.

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Matt spent the night with us Saturday and got his fix of AC and clean laundry. Sunday was pretty low-key since neither of our fathers are in town to celebrate the day with. We served in the children's ministry at the second service, which was quite a change from our early morning crowd, but it was fun. After church, we went over to the Chattanooga Market. Need I say again how much I love Chattanooga? This is just another reason living here rocks.

The rest of the weekend entailed staying in the air conditioning so as to not die from heat exhaustion (which almost happened every time we took the dog out to pee), playing spades , selling a tv that we didn't need, watching the movie Sleepers in about 5 different segments (taking breaks for naps, of course) and enjoying the company of my best friend! Gotta love weekends.

PS- Today is David's first day at Volkswagen!! I can't wait to hear the full report on how it goes.