Father's Day and Some Other Stuff

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there. I'm a little late, but it's still Sunday so there you go.

Yesterday, we found out the results of last week's TKD testing. All of the boys are now low brown belts (yay!) and Hannah is now a low green belt. The boys can't test again for at least 4 months although Hannah is eligible to test for high green in August. It'll be strange to not have everyone test.

Last night, Mike and I got a sitter and had a double date with Roxanne and Stephen from TKD. We went to this new wine bar and had a great time. It was cool to order the wine since you'd get three glasses in the "flight." I had two flights and was, pretty much, drunk. Although, I did it with class. LOL! Had we all not had babysitters to send home, I'm sure we would have been there for another couple of hours, and Stephen wanted to as he was ready to order his third flight of wine. I really like hanging out with Stephen and Roxanne. It's so nice to have friends that have kids the same age and that we get along with so well.

This upcoming year will be my last year in MOPS. Although I was told that I should really be on the Steering Team, I decided that I didn't want that responsibility and never volunteered. So, color me shocked when I got this e-mail from Lynne, my table leader from this last year (it was sent to me and Leah, another girl from my table...she's on steering next year so she's in the know):

It is so awesome that you two are going to be table leaders! You are both going do a fantastic job! Hope that I am at one of your tables! Lynne

WHAT!?! Ummm...that's the first I've heard about this. I called Lynne and she laughed when I told her that I had no memory of saying that I'd like to be a table leader. I told her that I would be willing to do it but was just in shock. She actually laughed at me! It's so like me, though, that I wouldn't remember doing that. Oh well. So, I guess I'm going to be a table leader next year.

It's Good To Have Friends

Mike invited Stephen and Roxanne (and their boys Jett and Quinn) from Tae Kwon Do over for dinner last night. Roxanne has been telling Mike that she wanted to get the boys together for some time now and we thought that this would be a good way to do that. We asked them to bring a bottle of wine and maybe a little desert. I had to laugh when they showed up with 4 bottles of wine (they couldn't decide which one to bring so they brought them all) and a French Silk pie. (For a visual of Stephen, Jett and Quinn (I don't have one of Roxanne, though), look here http://mbjdh1999.blogspot.com/2007/10/jacobs-photo-post.html )

The kids immediately ran off to play...Jett and Jacob (they're both in third grade) desperately tried to keep the younger kids out of Jacob's room. Who would have thought that Quinn and Hannah would have become a pair. She told me this morning that Quinn told her that he was going to marry her when they're older. Ahhh...if arranged marriages were still around. LOL! It was nice that the kids all got along so well because we got to chatting and completely lost track of time.

Several hours, and two bottles of wine (hard to believe it was only two) later, it was time to call it a night. Hannah had fallen asleep on the couch and Jett and Quinn were hiding from their parents so they wouldn't have to go home. It seriously didn't feel like they were here until almost midnight.

It was so nice to have people over again. I really missed having friends over for dinner. This is really the first time we've done it since we've moved here. Friends used to come over all of the time in Virginia. Having friends definitely makes Barb a much happier person.