Brian’s parents were here and it was awesome. It was so good to see them and they loved our house and I think were relatively comfortable which was always my main concern. It’s crazy when you have people at your house that aren’t normally there how the dynamic changes. We ate a ton of good food… went for a beautiful walk in the cemetary with the autumn leaves, and had lots of coffee and tea. We were at Olive garden for 3 HOURS on Saturday night! It was insane… I’ve never been at a restaurant in Erie that long I don’t think.
Sunday = awesome, as well. In the morning, I got caught in an awesome rainstorm - I don’t know about you guys, but I just love the rain when it is coming down in torrents and powerful. But then I feel guilty for liking it because, I know that when it turns into hurricanes it is so destructive. Nature is weird.
Then I had an awesome talk with my mom-in-law about stuff, and then we went to church together, and I looked over to my right and saw my friend there who I totally didn’t know was coming - but she was there with her husband which rocked!!! Then we had a newsletter meeting which is going to be cool. Hopefully when we can all get some time to really dive into it - the church will majorly benefit from the revamp of our bi-montly newsletter.
Have you guys noticed that right now the whole town looks like it was a snowglobe (but with autumn leaves instead of snow, of course) cuz allll the leaves are all over the streets and in huge piles. we have TONS to rake up!! it is just like… orange all over the ground, but most of the trees are losing their leaves which is actually pretty sad. :-
Then… the craziness begins. We had an awesome lunch at cracker barrel, and i looked at my phone when leaving and saw that i had missed a call from danielle, so through a series of texts realized that she and dave were driving right behind us. i almost ran to their truck at the light on peach st and wegmans, but i was too chicken. so brian pulled over and i hopped cars - and he went back to church…. then we went and saw chicken little. (ironic, eh?) about an hour in, all of a sudden the movie stopped and everyone “what? huh? aha? ah;sldjf;ahgd;j” muttered… then the lights came on and this woman came in and said …. “It’s just a minor setback. We’re going to have to ask everyone to calmly evacuate in single file to the outside of the building.” we’re like… WHAT??
so we were outside looking at this and there are firetrucks and fireman in masks and the staff evacuated to the complete other side of the parking lot. it was insane! and it was freezing. so we were texting people and taking pictures … it turns out it was smoking projector or something and we all went back in in 20 minutes after they figured it out. i dunno. then we saw the end of the movie. it was cute.
then we went to another friends house and ended up leaving to go look at huge waves at a pier near the airport. It was so so so dark and the waves were crashing up because the winds were pretty intense yesterday. It was so scary - the power of nature impressed me again. i mean, i swear we almost all got swept off into the dark scary and intense waves and rocks. ok not really at all. but we basically took turns runnign to the end of the pier and screaming as the wave crashed and went above our heads right on the end of t he pier and running back like 2 year olds. it was awesome. such an adventure. then i realized that i wouldn’t do anything adventurous without my friend’s influences.
then i had the greatest apple pie ever.
ok, now it’s time to work 
my parents found two kitties last week on their doorstep… so this is zelda, the new addition to our family… although in truth, we aren’t sure if she is a boy or girl so i’ll find out tonight at the vet. my parents still have the other kitty at their house. i debated keeping them together but i just don’t think i can handle two kitties right now! although supposedly the keep each other company and out of trouble so who knows. she is very loveable and definitely wild and keeping us on our toes. it’s amazing how caring for another living thing - whether it be a pet or a new baby, really changes your life. it suddenly becomes much less selfish. and yet, you aren’t worse for the wear from that.
