As is typical for us we were not home this weekend.
We visited our friends the Nuzzi’s in Austin once again (though never enough).
We were celebrating Tony and Josh’s birthdays and they celebrated mine (kindly).

The weekend was over all a fun time except that my allergies
decided to give it a hard push to see if they could drive
me to insanity.
Ha ha!
They didn’t succeed, I’m only partially crazy now.
Claritin helps some, but due to the absolutely astronomical amount
of pollen in the air I was still pretty sneezy.
That being said – we persisted in having fun and made a day out of
things – twice.

Friday

Friday evening we rolled into their place around 6:00 after being
on the road for approximately three hours.
And we went to dinner shortly after exchanging presents (I have to
confess, that yes, once again, I gave Tony a CD – I have to
give him music, its a disorder).
We went to Logan’s Steakhouse.
Logan wasn’t able to serve us, but some other fellow did.
To cause confusion I’ll add that Tony picked out some crazy toys
for me for my birthday which included a nifty mini remote
control car, a rocket and some astronaut food – those things
were given me before dinner.
See how confused you are about things now that I’ve gone back and
forth in the order?

Friday night we stayed up late, as is our tradition.
Tony and I went to Denny’s where we drank liquids until about
Midnight and then we came home and the four adults chatted
and had fun.

Saturday

Saturday we had fun and went to Chipotle’s for lunch and then
went to Smoothie-King for dessert.
Note to self: Jessica doesn’t like pork from Chipotle because it
is too salty.
We then proceeded to the park where we played around for a bit
with the water rockets (remember them as presents from Friday).
Eventually, given enough time we broke everything and moved on.

We rode a small train at the park, which was somewhat fun, but
only because Abby saw animals.
As an adult I think trains at parks should be moving at approximately 50 MPH or more.
That way we can get to the destination faster.

We had dinner at Fuddrucker’s and that was fun because shortly
after that fun the kids went to bed and Tony and I played
Empire Earth for some time.
Which was fun except we didn’t get to win, which was not fun.
We had to quit because the gals got home and we were pooped.
Plus, Erin turned on Saturday Night Live, which was a good
distraction because laughter is one of our favorite past
times.

Church-day

Sunday morning we went to church earlier than we have in a long
time, but managed to get there early enough to drop off the
kids and make Sunday School Class.
Which was good because class involved discussion and we needed
to participate.
We looked at I Theselonians where Paul was talking about being
like a mother.
I would have preferred that we actually take the passage in
context, but the focus was on mothers.
Odd, but at least there was actually something there about
mothers and they weren’t pulling the whole thing out of thin
air.

The main service was sort of about Yom Kippur from Leviticus 16.
We didn’t need our Bible’s because the pastor bluntly told us
that he was going to be going too fast to keep up.
He was right.
I was a hair sad though that the text was not a major emphasis.
They do the music after the lesson (which is my preference) and
so we finished off the service with some prayer and then
headed to pick up our pumpkins.

Lunch was “Fresh Choice” which fed us lots of food for a reasonable price.
Then we went home to the Nuzzi’s and prepared to go home to Euless.
We made it home just in time to unload the car and relax.
The drive home was nice I got lots of talking time with Jessica.

Resting in Him,

Randy Peterman