I got home last night from my quick trip to Memphis to visit friends.  Shall we re-cap?

Upon arriving, I presented Baby Jordan with his “Aunt-Amy-Beth-is-visiting-gift.”  I trust you won’t be too surprised at which aquatic animal graces the front of this baby hoodie?

Listen, I know he’s just four months old, but you can never start them too early on the path to good animal webcam-watching habits.

After dropping the baby off at his grandparent’s house, we headed to Chuck E. Cheese’s hangout with Cadence, Christan’s firstborn (and my Snoogle model). The whole point was to let her play games, which we did other than the few tokens we adults might have borrowed in order to feed our Skeeball obsession.

On Friday night, we all headed to the local indoor soccer arena to watch Christan play.  In over eight years of knowing the girl, I have never actually seen her play.  All I’m going to say is girl can play.

Of course, whilst she was playing, I did my part by continuing to wear Baby Jordan.

On Saturday, Christan and I left the kids with their daddy and headed out for a little walk at a local outdoor mall where we made a beeline to my favorite Memphis store, Swoozies.  I, of course, made my own beeline directly to the wedding paraphernalia display:

I was very happy to see that they still carry my favorite wedding organizer, though it’s not like I check to make sure it’s still there every single time I visit the store or anything weird like that.

I’m happy to report that it was still there and practically BEGGING me to purchase it.  You’ll be happy to know I held my ground and left without said wedding planner.  Call me crazy, but I feel as though it’s better to actually, you know, go on a date or something before buying a rather large wedding planner.

Christan assured me that, the day I call her to report that I’m engaged, she’ll be purchasing the planner for me seeing as she’s been watching my obsession with it for a few years now.  I told her that sounded like a wonderful plan as long as they still carry it 37 years from now.

Oh, I kid.  It’ll probably only be like 14 years ’til I’m married.  Mark your calendars now, girls.

Whilst we were gone, Cadence let her daddy think she was taking a nap whilst she was really organizing the entire contents of her bookshelf on the floor for when we came home.

Did anyone notice that I just used the word “whilst” twice in one sentence?  Impressive, no?

We went to church on Saturday night and then, afterwards, Kelly (whom you’ve met before) and I went out for dinner.  When she dropped me back off at my car, I realized I had taken no pictures of her during the weekend despite the fact she and I had been together several times.  So, I casually suggested that we get out of the car so Kelly could do a cartwheel in the parking lot.

To my surprise, she actually got out of the car and did the cartwheel right there in the church parking lot.  I had no idea she was so areobic.

And would you just look at how pretty the girl is, even after doing four cartwheels for me?

I had to head home on Sunday morning, but not before Christan made pancakes for us all.  I hate to be critical, but aren’t these the ugliest pancakes you’ve ever seen:

I mean, sure, they’re all round and perfect and everything.  But, deep in your heart, wouldn’t you rather have some of my pancakes?

Wait, don’t answer that.