...that's what we were up to this weekend (what else, right?). The weather was so beautiful that we were able to drive the Jeep (sans soft-top) around everywhere we went! I honestly didn't even care about messing up my hair...it was THAT fun...

On Saturday, we took the scenic route to East GR to help Becky and Abby load a truck full of their belongings that will be stored in Ohio once they move to D.C. It is all starting to become very real...they really are moving away!  It was only 2.5 years ago that we helped them move into that beautiful house. I know they will find much happiness in D.C., but it has been hard for me to accept that they really are leaving.

After saying our good-byes in East GR, we drove to Wyoming to stop in at my friend and co-worker Theresa's house. She and her husband, Chris, were having a yard sale, and I mentioned we might stop in if we got done with the loading early enough. It was great meeting Chris for the first time, talking Jeeps, and seeing their current, and plans for upcoming, house projects.

That evening, we had family snuggle time on the big blue couch in the basement and watched Once (beware: this links to a site with its soundtrack playing), a contemporary musical set in Dublin, Ireland. I LOVED the music, and the storyline...it was a love story almost like a European version of Lost in Translation...all situational and circumstantial.

Sunday we spent relaxing until that afternoon, when we Jeeped down to the north side of Holland to Beth and Tom's house for a cook-out. I hadn't seen Harper since she was a baby, and it was so neat to see her as a beautiful one-and-a-half-year-old (she's the exact same age as our nephew, Lucas). It was also nice to chat with Jen a bit (it's been months since I've seen her, and now twice in one week, with our book club meeting on Thursday night!). The drive there and back was awesome...we took Lakeshore Drive, enjoying imagining ourselves living in a Lake Michigan lakefront house. It's good to daydream.

Monday we took the Jeep out to run errands and got ourselves organized for this week. My college writing classes are going well so far, and I am starting to become a bit more confident with myself as an instructor (I'm used to teaching working adults in person in more of a lecture-type format, so teaching college students online really is quite the change!). In other news, Drew leaves for a work trip to Germany and France this Sunday, the 7th. He'll be gone for about a week.

-Em