Saturday night our church held a concert with Manafest and Fireflight. Before the concert there was a free skate park in the parking lot of the church. God gave us a beautiful day.

to the ballgame.

Jared and I spent some time at Smythe Park on Saturday for the baseball festivities.

These were the little tykes. I love watching them play.

Waiting for a run.

Last second of the pitch …

Deciding what to throw …

Three strikes …

Earlier this month Matt, Johna, Jared, and I went to a concert at MU by Lady Antebellum. Last year we saw Emerson Drive (who I adore and just happen to put on an incredible show) at MU and thought, why not these guys. Emerson Drive always rocks the house for me, but these guys put on an incredible show too.

Here are some of my favorites of Emerson Drive …

This one is courtesy of Kyla S. I am on the far left and Samm, my sister, is the one singing into the mic.

This one has horrible quality but is the first picture of me and Samm taken with Emerson Drive as a group.

Brad, the lead singer.

David, the fiddler.

This one is one of my all-time favorites from the summer Samm and I followed Emerson Drive throughout the Northeast.

And now, Lady Antebellum.

If you get the chance to see either band … GO. I promise you will not be disappointed.

Our friend Mara is a fellow “The Office” addict, not to mention a Jim Halpert addict. Two Wednesdays ago I asked her what her plans were for the weekend. She said, “I’m thinking about going to see Leatherheads. I said, “No, wait for us and we will go with you!” She said, “Okay.”

Jared and I went to Athens that weekend to spend time with my parents. Saturday night mom and dad wanted us to go square dancing with them. We kindly declined and all went to see Leatherheads instead. Now, I know that I am the one who asked Mara to wait and see it, but I can’t turn down a good movie. I told Jared that we would just go see it again with her when we got back to Mansfield. But I thought to myself, I am not going to say anything to Mara about going to see the movie.

Monday I had to drop something off at the church, and since Mara is the youth pastor at CNC, I ran into her. The first words out of her mouth were, “Hey, when are we going to go see Leatherheads?” Now, any normal person would have confessed that they had already seen it and they were sorry, but I am not normal. So I said, “When is good for you?” It was decided that Saturday would work for both of us.

I love Jim Halpert, therefore I thought I would love Leatherheads. I did not. I’ve seen a few movies in the theaters twice, i.e. Titanic, a few of the Harry Potter’s, Star Wars maybe, but I was not excited to see Leatherheads again.

We went to Pizza Hut with pleasant dinner conversation and bought our tickets, again, for the movie. There were about eight other people there in the theater so we picked our choice seats and settled in for a repeat of a not so wonderful movie.

Cue Jared to the rescue. He leans over me and says to Mara, “Now that we have already paid for the movie, we can tell you that we have already seen this.” Mara laughed and said, “So did I.” We laughed until we cried. We both felt so bad about seeing it without the other that we thought the best thing to do was say nothing. Thank goodness Jared spoke up, ‘cus neither me nor Mara were about to.

And then we left the theater and settled in to watch 21.

Which neither of us had seen yet.

This weekend we went to Montoursville to spend time with our friends Jess and Bryan. Jess and Jared have been friends since their freshman year of college. Jess and I became friends our sophomore year of college and not through any connection of Jared. She was in our wedding and I in hers. We are the type of friends who don’t talk every day or every week for that matter. I am a horrible phone person. Give me email or even real mail over talking on the phone. But when we do get together it’s like we are leaving off on a conversation that just ended. Bryan and Jess are the type of friends who are there for you at a moment’s notice. When Jared and I had to move out of our apt. almost 3 yrs. ago, Bryan and Jess came up that weekend and helped us move, without us even mentioning any help. We love them dearly. On the way home, Jared and I talked about how God has blessed us with wonderful friends. Here is a picture of Jess and I from college.