The Past 2 Weeks

Well I have been a blogging slacker - so I'm going to sum up the past 2 weeks in one post :)


We've had a great time spending time with our friends the past couple of weeks. It's been fun to entertain at our house again. I really enjoy preparing the meals and setting the place settings / themes :) I know totally cheesy - but it's still fun! So I've pictured a few below:

Rachel, Sean & Kensington came over for a BBQ.

even at 8am this burger still makes me hungry!

Why do I have a picture of a plate? Well - Jake & I have had these plates for probably about 10 years & just recently took them out of storage - we always thought the plates were fun - set of 4 with all different Hawaiian designs - but when we came across this one we were thrilled! 2 years ago we went to Oahu & our favorite place to eat was a little hole in the wall called "The Grass Skirt Grill" we couldn't believe that all of this time we've had a plate to remind us of the amazing time we had in Hawaii!!

On Friday night - we had an impromptu bonfire at our place. It was so much fun!

Jason, Mary & Alice came over for dinner last week.

Tom, Jen & Abbie came over for dinner a couple of weeks ago.

Grilled Veggies on ciabatta bread with fresh basil, mozzarella & balsamic - YUMMY!

Our old friend Steve dropped by to say hello. It was so nice to catch up with him - his band has been touring all over Europe & Canada & he will soon be going to Australia.

Shawn & Lisa had us over for a delicious dinner :)

This past week we also attented our first "couples potluck" with other people from our church. It was so nice to get to know other young couples from our church. Last night we had a bonfire at the beach with our church Lifegroup. The kids had a great time...of course I only took 2 pictures & neither of them came out :(.

Mackenzie starts soccer tomorrow & Blake will be starting soon as well. We love summer, but cannot wait for fall to begin! Looks like the lulls in our schedule we had during summer will soon be going away - with at least 3 soccer practices a week and school will be starting up again in a few weeks!

We haven't been on any of our "field trips" lately - but hope to resume again next week. I still have a bunch of places on my list that we want to check out!

Hope everyone has a great week!