Sorry to be away for so long! My days seem to keep getting shorter and shorter! Not necessarily a bad thing, but busy nonetheless.

There has been so much going on I don’t even know where to start. I guess I’m just going to hit the highlights that include pictures.

A few weeks ago, our church hosted Priscilla Shirer who is an amazing speaker. She preached at every service in Cordova and even in Collierville! That’s 5 services! Every time I hear her speak, she has an amazing message. I would definitely recommend getting a copy of her message from our resource center at church (thelifechurch.com).

Not only were church services awesome, the whole weekend was pretty fun. I got to spend time with the pastors’ children, the two older Shirer kids and their cousin. The Shirer’s have three boys around the ages  7, 5 and 18 months (if I can remember right).

It all started Friday night meeting each other and hanging out. It took a little bit for all the kids to feel comfortable with each other but the adjustment period wasn’t long. Movies, games, Legos and karaoke seemed to do the trick. The youngest one didn’t want to leave his mom’s side! By the end of the night Pastor John won him over and the little one was following him around.

On Saturday morning, I had a work event in the wee hours of the morning. Sometimes I can be a morning person. It all depends if I can psych myself up enough! I have to literally prepare my mind the night before so it’s almost as if my brain doesn’t have a chance to completely shut down. So early Saturday morning my work hosted a 5K walk partnering with St. Jude Hospital. The event was great but it was so cold for that weekend. (It didn’t have anything to do with the fact that we were there before the sun at 6:30am and it being the tail end of winter).

After the walk I still had three layers of running clothes on! This was the first time I had walked a course instead of running. I think I prefer the running : ) Much quicker and more gratifying.

I met up with Aimee later that morning and we drove to pick up the Shirer boys and the Siebeling kids for a fun afternoon. We had a great time enjoying the Memphis Zoo and a local fitness club swimming pool! I didn’t get any pictures of swimming but below are memories from the zoo. I’ll be back in a couple days with more updates on what I’m currently up to…for now I hope you enjoy these pictures! (Erin, I know you will appreciate the hat)

Transforming into a leopard!

The kids and I

'M' wanting to swim with the bears

'A' and I trying to take our picture

...much better! (Can you see the 3 layers on me?)