weekending/Hello Monday

 

Happy Monday, friends! I'm linking up with Holly and Sarah for today's post. I have so much to tell you about! Here's how my weekend started. 

Every year, my best friend and I go on an annual friend-versary trip to a small nearby town. Some years we spend the night, others we just go for the day and then come home. This year we decided to go to a town in Mississippi named Canton for the day. Online it looked like such a cute town square, and it was! The problem was, it was further than we thought it would be and it was a ghost town. It doesn't matter, though, we had a blast driving there and laughed ourselves silly when Missy kept taking pictures on her phone by accident. 

Here's a few pictures I took.

This was the townhall. It's so pretty! We ate a good lunch, then walked around for a bit, but we didn't hang around long. After this, we went to Oxford, Mississippi, which was way better. We got there later, though and just hit up the bookstores they had on the town square. 

We had "dinner" after this at Townhall Cheesecake. 

It was so good! We made it back home by around seven thirty that night (we left at eight thirty that morning), and look what I came home that my husband surprised me with!

He and Jonah made a Christmas tree for our flag pole. I love it! I wrapped up the night by eating a snack and watching Ticket to Paradise on Peacock.

I went out for a bit on Saturday, but it was rainy, so I didn't do much except for run an errand with my mom and sister and then we had lunch. That night, a couple of friends from church and I went to the Chris Tomlin and MercyMe concert. It was fun! Such a great concert, too...which was way more worshipful and less performance.

These are my friends Carol (on the left) and Kim. Funny fact: my husband went to high school with Carol and her husband Mark! They go way back. I bought a cute clear bag for this event earlier that day. I was out WAY past my bedtime and only got about four hours of sleep, and had to be at church super early Sunday morning. Thanks to everyone on the worship staff and even in choir dropping like flies because of sickness, the whole day was a major comedy of errors and just kept getting worse. So many people were out sick and we were having to cover for people and doing things we normally don't have to do in their absence. Last night was our Christmas night of worship, which was so good and that all our parents came to. 

The first two are my mom and dad, which you know.

This is Mom and Bill, my awesome stepdad.

And these next two are Todd's parents, my in-love's Phyllis and Wiley. I always appreciate how they come to everything! 

It was a great night. So, how was your weekend? What's something fun you did? I'd love to hear from you! I will confess that it's about this time of year when I feel like I start limping to the finish line that is Christmas and the new year. I am tired! I also don't feel great and sincerely hope I'm not catching what's going around. I could barely talk by the end of last night, so I will be resting some this week in between all the things and activities. (Seriously, it's THE busiest week again!) I can't even finish a book, if that tells you anything. 

Before I wrap this post up, I made a bonus post yesterday! It was a suggested post, and you can read it here. Thanks for reading my blog, friends! Love to all!