happy easter

well, here we are at easter 2008. cant believe it's already march 24, 2008. it's a rare opportunity to be blogging in tennessee, i dont expect it to happen ever again, unless i get into blogging mode later this week. this past weekend i had the opportunity to spend some large amounts of time with some old friends in nashville. i arrived friday night not having any plans for the weekend really, i just knew i wanted to spend quality time with people i wasnt sure when i'd get to see again. it might be an understatement to say that many people, having experienced the same weekend, might not have found it enjoyable at all, but i thought it was just great. the friends i stayed with live a life perhaps unlike a majority of americans. among the six of them, they share a 3 bedroom apartment. [which yeah, sounds normal!] in bedroom 1 - one married couple and their 7 month old baby. in bedroom 2 - married couple number 2. in bedroom 3 - a single gal. i was graced with an air matress in the living room which was great! and more than i was expecting!! it is somewhat funny, because i think the living situation is great - i see all the benefits, and while yes, it comes with various sacrifices, to me [and them i'd presume] the benefits FAR outweigh the sacrifices. so for the weekend it meant being around great people all the time! the 7 month old [justus] is absolutely precious! and is always surrounded by 5 people who absolutely love him all the time! i jumped right on that bandwagon because, well, that age just grips my heart! we had homemade pizza friday night, it was delicious. they're learning lots about nutrition [yep, many things that others might not agree with, but very natural, very organic, very old fashioned stuff] and so the whole weekend i got to partake in incredibly yummy foods that they cooked. couldn't have asked for anything better. saturday morning we spent a few hours at panera [oh, the best bagels. i love them so] and began studying 2 Timothy. studying 2nd Timothy was the ongoing event of the weekend - we just barely finished before dinner sunday night! it was wonderful spending so much time reading my bible, really studying it, trying to understand each verse - question things that didnt make sense and make connections with other things read. the weekend went by incredibly quick and i truly did not want to leave! all day already i've thought back with joy overy so many moments of the weekend. eating dried mango which was delish [and then eating dried mango tonight that tasted totally different from what i had saturday!!] making justus laugh and laugh and laugh. finding new meaning in becoming a commissioned examiner. i'm very lucky to have gotten to visit them once more before they move at the end of may up to milwaukee, and i cannot wait to go visit them up there as soon as i can :)