back at the tarr's

we've had a busy past few days.

forgot to say that thursday night after our frustrating visit to the realtor's office, we had dinner with brent (the main guy who interviewed john for the job - he's the guy over all the student ministries) and his family.  it was actually great that we did that because it got our minds off of all that junk that made us late getting over there.

sunday morning, for whatever reason (hormones, i think), i was on the verge of tears all stinkin morning.  i was pretty down about the attempting-to-buy-a-house situation, and man, i just couldn't shake it or hide it very well, which was frustrating because i didn't feel like talking about it or crying in front of anyone that morning.  so, the first person we run into at church that morning was donna
     (sidenote about donna:  her office shares a wall with john's - she's tiny and italian - she's taken on the role as "mom" for us - her requirement for john's office couch was for it to be long enough for her to lay down on, in which i said that a loveseat should suffice for that :-) - last week i was in john's office telling someone that i wanted to go to michael's to buy some canvases to make art for john's wall, and in walks donna who hands me a michael's gift card and lets me know that she really doesn't make a habit of eavesdropping - anyway, you get the point, she's adorable and awesome).
     SO, she was very tough running into that morning because i know how much she cares about us, and she totally saw straight through my fake smile and greeting.  i did a good job keeping myself composed while telling her what was weighing on me.  so, anyway, we went to church then swung by a soft pretzel shop and picked up 2 dozen mini-pretzels with cheese sauce and hot mustard sides and went to our ABF's picnic down the road.  i talked to becka and her husband justin the whole time.  becka is from dallas (grapevine), so we were immediate friends.  we're actually hanging out tomorrow.  john pointed it out, and he's so right - becka reminds us so much of anna fadell.  <3  they're both little and have long, voluminous dirty blonde hair, and have lots of personality.  those two have to meet.

john had fantasy football draft with the other guys on staff that afternoon, so i came back to the tarr's and reunpacked all my stuff and relaxed all evening.

labor day, we went to ikea to look for a couch for john's office and didn't have any luck because everything was too expensive (imagine that!).  our budget for it was severely low to be able to purchase a brand new black leather couch, so i'd been looking on craigslist.  i found one for a fantastic price located in central city philly, so john and i borrowed a friend's truck and drove down there last night at 8pm, liked it, paid for it, loaded it, drove it, unloaded it, cleaned it out, put throw pillows on it, returned the truck, and went home and went to bed.  before all that, though, we had dinner with the supp's (jeff is john's direct supervisor or whatever you call it) and the reed's (matt is the pastor/director/whatever over all adult ministries and what not - his office is directly across from john's).

i'm doing laundry this morning and will eventually make it up to john's office to hang the art over the couch and take my "after" pictures!  woo hoo!  john's office - DONE.