Happy Birthday, Hannah!

Happy birthday, Hannah! For those of you who don't know, Hannah has been my best friend since we were in third grade. That means it's been 16 years of best friendship! She knows everything about me and I love her so much! Happy birthday, I'm sooo glad you were born!
To celebrate her birthday, God gave us an incredible day up here in the 'ham! It's forecasted for high 80's today, which is something we haven't seen all year. It's roasting and toasting, and as soon as we can, we're headed out to play in the sunshine! But for now, we're stuck in the great indoors, which is why I got a chance to blog. One of Isaac's small group guys is putting together a live worship cd for his senior project and Isaac is playing and singing in it, and this morning is a practice. It's actually a really cool project because he's going to sell the cds and donate all the proceeds to our local foodbank. Way to go, Chris! So we're in the church playing some tunes (actually, I'm just listening, but close enough) for a couple hours. And then it's off to strawberry picking! The u-pick farms opened up yesterday, finally, and we're going to join the throngs slaving away in the berry fields picking monstrous amounts of perfectly ripened strawberries. We LOVE u-pick time! So, yesterday was a pretty great day for us as well. Isaac's bike is finally fixed (did I tell you that already?) and we get to go on bike rides together now, which is so fun! I realize I'm using a lot of exclamation points in this entry, but I really am excited about all of these things. Anyway, yesterday was another perfectly sunny day so we rode to a beautiful park and ate dinner in the sunshine and hung out. Then the sunshine moved, so we rode a few blocks away to another patch of sunny grass and set up camp there instead. About 10 minutes into our hangout time there, we got a surprise...the sprinklers automatically came on, dousing all of our stuff. Thus began a mad rush to collect all of our belongings and rush them off of the soaking lawn. It was pretty hilarious...especially when Isaac went back to get his bike and got hit head on by the spray of water. Lots of shrieking and laughing and thumbs ups from the people in the cars waiting at the stoplight directly in front of us. Good times! There we are, wet but happy to have shared the fun together. We'll take pictures of berry picking today so you all can share in that experience. Happy sunny Saturday, my friends!