Weekend stuff

Thus far, this weekend has been busy to say the least. Yesterday started with our middle's basketball game. 19-19 tie in overtime. She played so well!

Hubby on his favorite toy

Hubby LOVES dirt bikes- the reason we have a track in the very back of our property. Our girls love watching too and join him on the track every once and a while on their 4 wheeler. Our two oldest have wanted to go to a Supercross event for some time. When hubby learned of the date the event would be held in Atlanta he immediately priced out tickets. Sorry- $50 each. Our oldest daughter said "wouldn't it be great if we could do that for my birthday?"- hint, hint. We told her "no" and dropped it....or so she thought. I asked hubby to look at tickets again and of course, there were some much cheaper. $10 to be exact. He didn't look at those before because he wanted "the good seats" (the cheap seats were awesome, by the way). So, in addition to her letters and the trunk, our girl got Supercross tickets for her birthday.

My middle making yummy banana bread- she loves cooking!

Friday began with making goodies for my sister and her family. Our youngest was going to spend Saturday night with them while we headed to Atlanta. One of the goodies that are so easy, we LOVE to make and people love to eat are Buckeyes (recipe at end of post). Chocolate and peanut butter- what could be better?!

Youngest making yummy Buckeyes!

The races were fun and as always, a culture shock for me. At one point I looked at my husband and said "I want to go back home to my bubble!". Can you tell I don't get out much? I know that God loves all people and that there are millions and millions and millions of people in the world, but when going to an event like this I am amazed. I see first hand how vast His love is. There were over 60,000 people there (not even a fraction of the entire world population), yet it seemed like so many to me. So many DIFFERENT types of people and guess what? He loves them all just as He loves me. It just blows me away. Maybe I'm a little naive, but it just puts things in perspective for me. At least a little. Thanks for the reminder.

We had a blast. Our guy (James "Bubba" Stewart") won, of course. Got home late- after 1AM. Headed over to my sister's this morning to pick up the little one. Now home to veg. It's cold today, so I'll probably be in this exact spot for most of the day. Oh, after I meet my brother-in-law to retrieve one pair of new glasses my youngest left there.

Out back on the track

Hubby is headed out to the track as I type this. Guess the races have him pumped. Better him than me!

Hope you all are having a blessed weekend!
In Him,

E

Yummy Buckeyes

1 1/2 cups peanut butter

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup butter, softened

16 oz. confectioners sugar

1 package semisweet chocolate chips

Line cook sheet with waxed paper (or use metal baking sheet). Mix peanut butter, butter, vanilla and sugar with hands. Dough will be stiff. Shape into balls and place on wax paper or cookie sheet and refrigerate. Melt chocolate. Dip balls with toothpick until covered. Place back in refrigerator until chocolate is firm.