Friday Five

A little randomness of Hoog goings-on for your Friday.

1. Josiah is at Nana and Pop's (Matt's parents) house this week. They always seem to ask at JUST the right time if we want them to take him for a few days. His mom is retired and they both get grandchildren withdrawls often since all the rest of their grandchildren are fairly far away. We met up with her on Wednesday to drop him off. And it seems as though he's been having quite the blast since.

Getting to watch shows in Nana and Pops' bed before bedtime...totally a grandparent bonus.

Eating pancakes and bacon for breakfast. I'm jealous.

2. When we went to drop him off, he had JUST fallen asleep in the car for a nap. So...he had his first experience of sleeping in a shopping cart. Y'all...this kid does not sleep just anywhere under any sort of circumstances. I had to capture this moment. He's almost 3 and doesn't even really fit in the cart. It only lasted about 5 minutes because then we found Nana and he must've heard us talking and woke up. He decided his desire and excitement to see her was stronger than his need for that decent nap. 

 

3. After we transferred his car seat and stuff to Nana's car and said our goodbyes, Matt and I walked around the mall for a bit. He wanted to go to the Apple store to exchange the iPad for a newer one and I wanted to go to Penney's because I had my eye on a couple of adorable, little onesies for the new kid. Without giving away too many details, we plan to reveal the gender in a couple weeks by letting Josiah open a box with either a "little sister" onesie or a "little brother" onesie. Penney's had the PERFECT ones. 

I also found the PERFECT Easter dress in a matter of 10 minutes! Unheard of. I was waiting on Matt to finish up at the Apple store and decided to look at the dresses. Not only is Easter coming up, but we have several church services and showers and weddings, etc. And my nicer dresses are quickly becoming...ummm...smaller. So, I was excited to see one that I kinda liked that was on sale. I tried it on and I immediately loved it. Yay! 

4. After that, we rushed over to the movie theater, cuz...what else do couples do on Wednesday afternoons when they just shipped their toddler off to someone else's house for the week?  We never get to see movies...in the theater...anymore. Sadly, there wasn't much that we BOTH were dying to see. He kinda wanted to see the new Captain America but I haven't seen the first...and quite frankly...not that interested. So we decided on Divergent instead. It was actually pretty good. I'm sure it's nothing like the book, but it held our attention and made us want to see the next. It had quite a bit of thought-provoking themes and scenes. Gotta love those utopian societies turned sour.

5. One of the reasons it worked out that Josiah was with Matt's parents this week was because these fabulous people were with us yesterday and with our Chi Alpha group last night. I usually don't get to be in the service on Thursday nights because I'm hanging out with my wild kid in the office while Matt preaches, but we were already feeling bummed that we wouldn't both get to be in there to hear them. It worked out so well and it was such a sweet night with them. They both were incredibly encouraging and gently challenging, as usual. Mary and Eli were our campus pastors at Sam Houston and the further away we get from those glory days of college, the more our hearts are filled with gratitude for these two. Oh! where would we both be if they hadn't been obedient to the call of God on their lives to disciple punk college students? I can't even imagine. Thank you, Jesus!

This was the first time they've been able to visit us at UHXA and our students are smitten. And why wouldn't they be? Such an incredible, godly couple who are such a blessing to hundreds, if not thousands, of people. What a legacy!


Bonus: These two. Can't handle it. How will there ever be room in my heart for more of this wonderful, heart-melting love?

Happy Friday!!!