Just a regular old week

Well, not much to report around our household, other than I feel as though we are finally getting into the groove. Now that David has a staff at school and regular hours (not the awesome Mon.-Thurs. thing we were really digging), we are finally in our mode, we have found our "ness." If you have ever seen You, Me & Dupree, you know what I mean by that; it has become David's new favorite "quoatable" movie and it has rubbed off on me, too. We tend to throw our own seven different kinds of smoke around here, too! All that to say, we have found our Dominguez-ness and are getting into the groove of things again.
I realized today that I have exactly one month to put together one awesome Cars party for one awesome soon-to-be three year old. I found a really cute cake online that I want to make and am really excited about it. I've ordered a few things from Oriental Trading, but other than that, I am a little over whelmed as to where to start. We have a birthday party to go to this weekend for our friends, Cayden and Ryden, they are twins who live in Temple. Hopefully, it will put me into that third birthday-mode.
I am really finding that I am not making as many "new" friends here, but rather reconnecting with a lot of my old cronies from ACU. This has been a very pleasant turn of events. I am now having to get to know them again as wives and moms and girls with completely new last names.
Last night I was so blessed to spend several hours at Chili's (and Target!) catching up with my dear, sweet friend Lauren Vaught (formerly McDowell). She was my little sis in GATA and I just love her to pieces. She hasn't changed a bit-- it was just so refreshing to catch up with her. Her and her husband are expecting their first child, a little girl, in December. She actually contacted me through the ACU web site and low and behold, she lives in Temple! What fun we are going to have!
Tonight at church, I ran into another GATA friend, Angela Rogers, who was a little younger than me in school, but I remember how sweet she was-- and still is!
It has really been nice to see so many familiar faces, both at church and around the area. I am really looking forward to connecting with everyone again.
We enjoyed church very much again tonight, although living twenty minutes away is a challenge to get their in time for the meal and then get home again before bedtime (missed it by an hour tonight). We may have to skip the "after party" that we went to tonight at the local drive in. It was super fun, but hard to get back in the car and drive two little ones home and then do the whole bed time routine. We loved everything about the service tonight again. They have already had several baptisms since we have been here and Benjamin really enjoys watching this and asking questions all about it. Of course, at the beginning of every one, he has shouted, "Look, Daddy, they're going swimming! Benjamin go swimming, too?"
We were also able to spend a little bit of time with my dad today, too. David threw out his back last week and has been living on muscle relaxers and pain killers-- what a rotten time for this to happen to him! My dad was so thoughtful and came and mowed our lawn for us today since David would not have been able to. This new grass that we have here is that St. Augustine type and is super thick, which I never thought I would complain about, but it is quite the chore to mow and I couldn't have handled it either, especially with how long it takes to do the whole yard. That is so hard with little ones. It also grows so fast, it really requires about two mows a week, but who has time for that when it takes five hours to do it all? But, my dad came over and got us into ship-shape-- we can't wait to play out side all day tomorrow in grass that's not up to our ankles! Woo hoo-- thanks, Pops!
Other than that, it is shaping up to be just a regular old week. Truth be told, we are rather looking forward to just a regular old weekend, too.