TONS has been going on here. We had 11 people in the house all weekend.

My husband coordinates our church's men's conference each year. This year there was almost 200 men. Milton Vincent author of The Gospel Primer was the speaker. I had the privilege of spending an evening and morning with his wife. She was so wonderful.

Since it was the men's conference, my in-laws came up for the weekend for my father-in-law to attend and Ryan's mom hung out with me. We also have a friend staying with us (my personal assistant) :) and I have my sister's two youngest (Ella, 3, and Eli, 2) because her mother-in-law just passed away Friday morning. Having my in-laws here was a big help. I wished we had a little more time to chat, but my mother-in-law is very understanding and jumped right in to help.

It has been a whirlwind to say the least.

God is good. I love having a busy life. Full of opportunities to serve His people. He also gave my husband and I a night away last week to one of our favorite places (Lake Placid). It was so relaxing as it is a very quiet time for the town right now.

On top of all of that we don't have our van because we left it with some old guy named Pearl to have a bunch of things looked at. Hoping he takes his time because we are "suffering" using our friends Cadillac Escalade. LOVE. IT. Might be hard to get the van back. :)

My friend who is staying with us is a photographer. She did a photo shoot with our family last Sunday. Can't really post too many pics because my mother-in-law reads this and (sorry, mom) I don't want her to see them before Christmas.

Here are a few cute ones...