Speights Family Fun

Every year our church takes their high school seniors on a mission trip and to raise money for that they hold an auction. Landon's dad is in charge of this auction, so this year on Friday night we were up there helping out. It was so cool to see how God works through this and I was blown away by how much money they were able to raise toward the mission trip, despite the state of our economy. Plus, it was a lot of fun--and we walked away with two 6 month Bally's memberships that we got for a really good price. We figured we can use them in our marathon training!

On Saturday morning our Speights family fun weekend started bright and early. We jumped in the car with Pam and Wes and hit the road. Our first stop was in Bryan to see his grandparents and aunt, uncle and baby cousins, who just happened to be there visiting for the weekend. His grandmother is doing well after her chemo and radiation and it was so fun to sit around and visit with everyone--and hold their precious new baby!

Emily was sleeping when we got there--so precious.

She is such a happy baby!

sweet baby hands

we passed Emily around all morning

Grandma and Emily

Cutie Ryan--he was our ring bearer about 3 years ago.

Landon and his Grandad

Ryan playing his video games

Ryan decided he wanted to take some pictures too!

From there we headed over to Waco to eat lunch with Kenna and then all of us headed on down the road again, ending up in Keller to spend the night with Logan, Elizabeth and Abagael. It was a quick trip and a quick weekend, but a lot of fun. We took a few walks around the block with Abagael, went bowling (I forgot my camera but will post pictures as soon as I get some!), out for a late dinner at the Saltgrass Steakhouse and then ended the night with a couple of games of Clue--which everyone is great at except for me! Oh well...maybe one day I'll win.

the view from the road

all ready for our bike ride!

it was a beautiful day--I loved how the sky was so blue.
I'm kinda obsessed with the sky.

We walked all over the neighborhood while Abagael drove her Gator.

And today has been a perfect ending to the weekend. We got home early this afternoon and have had some time to relax and catch up on the sleep we most definitely did not get Friday night or last night. And, I'm trying to try out new recipes, so now we're eating my latest experiment (and my first every casserole to make) as we watch House, our latest re-run addiction.

All in all, it was a really nice weekend. Next weekend is Newhouser family weekend as we celebrate my dad's birthday! Woohoo--I really do love living near to family.