A full weekend!

This weekend was the most amazing, exhausting, fun-filled weekend I have had in a LONG time!

Friday I was busy working away on the signs for our ballet studios Christmas Float when I got a text that read, "I have an extra ticket to Chris Tomlin tonight, sorry its last minute, but if you can go let me know" Um...Hello? Chris Tomlin? Yes 'mam! The text was from a friend Sarah from the women's bible study I did the past few months. As the day went on I thought to myself, I wonder who's going? Well when I arrived, there were a lot of the girls from the bible study there and we all headed out to see Chris Tomlin. He is my obsession on KLove. He is one of the artist that I absolutely love. He is amazing. And boy, did I need amazing!

Rewind a few days before. Life was starting to catch up with me. I was loosing track of my faith. I was planning things and doing things and forgetting what I was suppose to be doing...spending time with God. So when I received the text from Sarah, I didnt care if I was going with her and her husband, I was going!

Chris Tomlin did an AWESOME performance. I laughed, I cried (alot) I worshiped and I did it with a group of Godly women. A group of women that supports each other, that prays for each other, and that has a rule of keeping what is said between them private and that is a hard relationship to find. I felt blessed to be there with them!

After the concert we got to go BACKSTAGE...yes (jealous!?!) and meet Chris Tomlin. He was adorable.
Here I am with him

(EEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKK!)

Once we all purchased cd's, compared pics, had a group of teenage girls take our pic (we all knew that they were thinking..."oh my that's us in 10 years") we headed for Ice Cream (i mean, its the holidays...no calories)
We shared stories, swapped ideas, I gave an impromptu twitter lesson...then we headed home!

I had to run to wal-mart before going home (aubrie was out of pull-ups, she still wears them at night so I am not washing sheets everyday)

When I got home, I had to finish the signs...bedtime around 3:00am (eesh)

Saturday I had to be at the dance studio at 9:00am. (got there around 9:15)

We worked on the float ALL DAY!!! We won the parade last year, so this year we were the host float, the first ones in the parade, the shining stars...it had to look good ;) We finished the float around 1:30 and had girls showing up at 3:00pm for hair and make-up! We had "The Grinch Stole Christmas" Theme and all the little girls were "cindy loo hoo"

Look at Miss Madyson...they were playing shrek on my phone

Madyson and her friend Skyla

Part 2 of the float

the back part of the float

The parade was over around 7, by 7:30 I was at home in BED.

Sunday,  we had Church. Neither Todd, nor myself could get it together. We arrive 15 minutes late (not a good thing when you teach @ 9) Church was heart wrenching. I really can't go into details but needless to say, i have been crying a lot this afternoon over a family. I need to help them and need God to show me how. (can you please pray for that today)

After church, I had planned to go to the Nutcracker with the girls and Todd's mom, BUT our house was disgusting and I don't mean toys and stuff everywhere... I mean a sink FULL of dishes, laundry piles taller than aubrie...So i made the decision to forgo this performance (sad because I love the nutcracker and had a whole thing planned for the girls) and instead Todd went in my place. He enjoyed it, Madyson loved it!!! Aubrie slept through the first act.

Exhausted? Because I know I am! Work this week and breaking out some holiday traditions this weekend. (Movie Night, Christmas Present Making (grands beware You are getting some cute homemade gifts this year).

Do you have Christmas family traditions? What are some of yours??