fun sunday, names, and grilling

We had a great Sunday. Went to the early service since Lily's morning nap falls too late now really to go to the 11 service. Then that afternoon we went outside and played for awhile since it was actually a decent day. Lily loves being outside. Then my parents came over to watch Lily so I could go to youth group.

This week for game, Matt had chocolate covered a whole bunch of different items (some good, some gross). Some of the nasty stuff included: pork rinds, vienna sausage, mushroom patty, green pepper. They were blindfolded and had to guess what they were eating that was covered in chocolate. Very fun! Worship was great of course and so was Matt's talk. I really enjoy getting to listen to him share with the kids.

Jon (youth group worship leader) had invited a bunch of people out to Applebee's for his girlfriend's birthday after youth group. So we went with Steve and Genna to that. There ended up being over 30 people there! It was nuts! We only really knew about 6 or 7 of them. We had a great time though!!

It's been really nice getting to do some things that normally we wouldn't have been able to in Lynchburg since the grandparents weren't around. It's very nice to have them available to watch Lily so we can go out every now and then. And plus, I don't trust a whole lot of people with my beautiful 16 month old so it's reassuring to know that when I do leave, she's in good hands and having a great time!

When we're riding in the car, we've been asking Lily to say the different names of our family. She's pretty good at trying to copy what we say. So here's what she gets out for each one: daddy (dada), mommy (mama), grandma (andma), grandpa (pa), nana (nana), papa (papa), aunt dawn (daw), uncle chris (kiss), ava (nothing, haha), owen (nothing), cecilia (cece), aunt missy (miss), uncle mike (my), aaron (nothing). So she's getting there. When we ask to her to say Cecilia it's so cute hearing her say cece. That must be Cecilia's new nickname.

And finally, we had a delicious dinner tonight. Matt borrowed his dad's charcoal griller until we can get out own full size one. So we got steaks and grilled them tonight. They were scrumptious!