We took the weekend off Personhood Mississippi to travel to Tennessee to meet new friends. We had a wonderful weekend of food, volleyball, fellowship, volleyball, worship, volleyball & a new game called Pit that was loud & rowdy enough to be right up the Riley’s alley. Emily was having a bit of a flare-up with her knee so she, I & Becky(Upchurch Mom) spent alot of Saturday evening holding down lawn chairs and soaking in Hannah Kate’s incredible sweetness. Saturday evening we had about seventeen pizzas, give or take a few (did I mention that we have 20 children between us). If you have never had smoked sausage on a pizza you really should try it.  Les took a little time to check out Tyler’s vast library (BTW-if I knew who rearranged certain books I wouldn’t tell). That night the Old School Hymnals came out. Yay! I love the Old School Hymnal. I love our little welsh hymnal too but I do like to mix it up some during family worship. It was a sweet time of fellowship in the Lord.

Sunday-worship at Grace Church. I was able to sit through prayer meeting (thank you Ellen!) but missed the sermon. My family told me a little about it & I’ll check out their site to see if I can download it. Josiah usually goes to sleep during the singing at Christ Church but Grace has a little different worship style and he was way to interested to go to sleep. Sooo mom walked the halls with alternately cranky & silly baby during the service. We did see Laura D. &  that was a blessing. We miss her and hope she’ll visit New Albany soon.

After Church we went back to the Upchurch’s for an incredible spread for Sunday Dinner. Thank You Bruce & Becky for your amazing hospitality! We had a GREAT time.

 

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.  Psalms 133:1

 

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Somehow, in a family that obnoxiously (no, really) flashes a camera in everybody’s face, we didn’t even get the camera out of the car. Mercy became very distraught shorty after we pulled out of the driveway to head home & we had to go back to get her shoes. While in the drive Trey remembered that he left his shades in Tyler’s truck. You know Trey can’t live without those shades. I finally pulled out the camera just as Les returned with Trey’s shades. Enjoy the only picture we took all weekend.

Whew. How’s that for the grandparents version?

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