Weekend in Tuscaloosa

After what seemed like a marathon of a baseball season we needed some relaxing time away from home. We arrived in Tuscaloosa Thursday night and ate dinner with the Jordan's. Jonathan was Derek's assistant coach at Bryant and took over as head coach when we moved to Troy. He is a great coach, person and friend to Derek. His better half, Bethany, is dearly missed by me as she and I have watched many baseball games together. Derek and I were blessed to be in their wedding and then Vivianna, their precious little baby girl, is 3 weeks younger than Luke. It is always so sweet when the Lord places friends in our path who are walking through similar seasons of life...this is the Jordan's. What an encouragement to be at the same place in this journey with the same purpose (bringing glory to Him).

Friday morning Derek and Jonathan played golf while I visited my sweet friend Natalie and her new baby Eliza. She was born April 24th and I have just been dying to meet her. Our conversation was so sweet that I totally forgot to get a picture of her! She is just precious and I can't wait to see her and her momma again.

Friday afternoon Luke and I went to visit another great friend Stephanie and her 10 year old son Will at the school where she teaches. She will have another son, Dylan, this Friday and I just had to see her while she was pregnant. I met Stephanie in college and Will was 2 at the time. She has been a great friend for 8 years and I just love her to death.

Friday night we attended the Bama baseball game with John Rushing (I blogged about this below) and visited the Yogurt Mountain for the second time in two days. Enough said.

Saturday morning my Dad arrived in town from a business trip and we spent the afternoon doing this:

Luke had his first swim in his new pool. He seemed to like it but was too busy chewing on his toys to have the reaction I anticipated. He was just so darn cute swimming and splashing around in the water.

Saturday night Derek and I went to my high school friend Suzanne's wedding while Luke stayed home with Dad and Kris. It's always so hard for me to leave him, I guess because I stay home with him it still makes me nervous but he was a little angel while we were gone. The wedding was like a high school reunion and I got to hang out/catch up with so many old friends. Which is great because Derek and I aren't going to be able to make it to my 10 year reunion this summer. Partly because we are working VBS at our church that week but mostly because we would have to sell Luke to be able to afford to go...the tickets were outrageous!

Sunday we attended our old church, FBC Tuscaloosa, and ate lunch with The Lowe's afterwards. We were so blessed to work with their ministry when we lived in Tuscaloosa and it was awesome to be reminded of the unity they are able to create in the youth of FBC. Something else I always find so cool is that the youth sit front and center on Sunday mornings...something that didn't happen before John Lowe. Oh, and one more fun fact about John Lowe, he attended Troy University and FBC Troy when he was in college.

Okay, I'll leave you with one last picture of Luke I took after church Sunday morning. He apparently was loving his time in T-town.