Wonderful Weekend......

We're having a great family weekend!
I love these!

For starters, our church's Preschool and Children's ministries host this once a month:

For only $5 a child, you can drop them off at the church for a night of fun and fellowship with their friends from 6-10 p.m.! So moms and dads can have fun and fellowship without them!!
How awesome is that?!!!

During football season, I don't get any Friday Night Out date nights with Coach. Especially when our high school makes the playoffs......which they did.
However, last night, Coach did not have to scout!!! And, the playoff game is today so.................I got a date with my honey last night!!! FUN!!!
We were excited about it all week long!! Doesn't take much folks after 16 1/2 years! :o)

We started with an AWESOME meal at Red Lobster! I had 3 different yummy kinds of shrimp, my fav!!
I must say another "Thank You" to my Secret Sister for the gift card for my b/d!!! If you are reading this Secret Sis.............."thank you sooooo much!!!"

After dinner, we did something very exciting and romantic!! We Christmas shopped, together, for our children!!! It really was fun! I usually do most all the shopping by myself each year so I really enjoyed having Coach along! I think we got most of it knocked out for the kids!

And, we got Agirl's birthday.....which is coming very soon!

I believe that I only have stocking stuffers to get for the kids and I'll be done with them. Great feeling to have before Thanksgiving even!!

This morning, has been slow and relaxed. While Coach and Agirl have spent time together playing games (I love that!!!), Jman has kicked back playing some DS and me...........I jumped on the treadmill for a great workout to work off that shrimp!!! :o)

I'm about to shower and go get my hair cut! YEAH!!!! Way over due!!!! And, those that see me every day, you know this!!

Coach has to leave later for the football game. I'm glad we had last night and the kids have had all morning with him.

The kids and I are going to go shop for our two Angel Tree children this afternoon. Angel Tree is a project of Prison Fellowship ministries. Our church participates in this and the last few years, we have 'adopted' children to buy Christmas for. These children have a parent, or parents, who are serving time. If it weren't for others, these children probably would not have much Christmas at all. The gifts are labeled from the parent.

I love that my children are learning to give in this way, to other children who don't have near as much as they do. For children who are in curcumstances because of their parent's poor choices. Last year, all 4 of us, helped deliver the gifts. This was wonderful! It was great to actually take the gifts to the homes where these children were living.

It was another opportunity for our children to see that others don't have as much as we do.

It's an outreach we plan to always do together as a family.

I better get in the shower, go get my haircut, and do anything else I'd like to do by MYSELF before my honey leaves for work!!

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!