Tuesday, May 5, 2009

FRIENDS

We took a quick trip to Phoenix to attend the church we used to go to, Christ's Church of the Valley (CCV) and spend time with friends. My friend Mary is the most spontaneous person I know. We planned an impromptu girl's night with her and another spontaneous friend and decided to treat ourselves to dessert at A.J.'s (YUM!)....because we've been pretty good with our diets..haha...and went to see a scary movie, "The Haunting in Connecticut". It was extra scary because the movie didn't start until 10:15pm! We also stopped at our fav place, IKEA. We'd love to do our whole house with their stuff.

It was awesome to be at CCV again and see the growth. When we were there 10 years ago, there were about 3,000-4,000 people. Now they are up to over 15,000! Mary sings on the praise team and I tried to get a video of it but the lighting was pretty dark. Despite the size of the church, we still ran into several people we knew. We met up with more friends, Sam & Chanda and went to dinner with them & their 3 yr old daughter Alyssa. Nate had a good time playing with her dolls, at which Don made a mental note to get him some "ACTION FIGURES". haha. Here's some pix for you:

Spring in the desert

Harvard's new hangout

Mad scientist at IKEA

Breakfast at "The Place". 59th Ave & Bell in Phx. Awesome!

Julia practicing her babysitting skills

Look mom, snails!


Hunting for more snails

Nate & Alyssa. No smile but at least he posed. ha


Playing after the church service

3 comments:

Sam- Hypnotoad said...

These pics were great! Glad to see you and loved having dinner with you guys! Nate is an amazing child and Alyssa just loved playing with him.

Sharon said...

snips and snails and puppy dog tails...hahah Loved your girls night out with mary!!

I wantched the film below with a huge sappy grin on my face. Boy are you going to be sooo glad to ahve that later. I still think back to how cute Barrington was saying that prayer..especially the wors 'soul' he had to just kind of push it out with his tongue, it wass so adorable. I really should get bailey on tape. She won't go to bed with out it but has not memorized it like Nate. what a smartie pants!!

McKillip Family said...

I can't believe how big Nate is getting! Faith and Julia were looking for the same snails too! They couldn't find them the day we were there! Faith was bummed. She saw the pic of Nate holding them and said AWE, he found them! YUCK!