We all have good days and bad days – and in the midst of these days, we also have pretty amazing days.  Days that are sometimes indescribable.  No true words or descriptions can help you fully comprehend someone else’s amazing day, except to say ‘amazing.’Yesterday was one of those days for me.  Sunday, June 21st.  This day was going to be a day of 2 celebrations: first being Father’s Day – Chris’ 3^rd official year of celebrating this day.  Second being Morning Alone with God at Townlake with GP.  We began our Father’s Day celebration late Saturday night because I wanted Chris to open his gifts.  Thankfully I scored!  Yay for me.  He’s a hard guy to buy for.Sunday morning began early (for a Sunday) because we were meeting GP at an earlier time due to the outside heat.  A few months ago, we had decided to implement a Morning Alone with God concept.  This was something introduced to me via a friend Jeff Galley on my Eurotrain adventures.  I was a little excited/nervous about our Morning Alone with God, much like the feeling you get when you are going on a date.  The feeling of being unsure of how your time will be – will we connect – will we not?  Should I expect anything or just allow myself to ‘be’ with God?  How can I go into this hour with Him with no expectations, no action items, not begging for quick results?  When we got to Townlake, we met up with our friends to briefly go over how to go about this next ‘hour’ with God.  Some went for a jog/walk, some hung out by the lake, one stayed near her home (ON the lake!) and spent time out on Lake Travis.  For myself, I found a beautiful Joshua tree, plopped myself on the blanket, and plugged in my ipod.  I always like to start with Worship music in my quiet times because it helps me focus – takes away all random thoughts & lists I have going for the day – and allows me to concentrate.  I sat & looked at the most amazing Austin skyline and became so thankful Chris and I didn’t move out of Austin.  I love this city.  We are meant to be here.  I became overwhelmed with a sense of peace & happiness; my nervousness went away.  Images of friends that are spiritually searching began flashing through my mind – friends that I intentionally stay connected to because I love them & hope to provide opportunities for them to connect with God.  What does it mean to make disciples of Christ?  How do you know when a disciple is then making another disciple?  Success is not in numbers but in lives/conversations/journey’s.  This is a hard concept to fully grasp when my whole life it has been just the opposite.  Thankfully, this past year God has taught me (still is) that we are the body of Christ, the church – not a building to attend.  And the hope is not just to ‘invite’ people to a building, but invite people to into our lives.  And sometimes that’s pretty messy.  My hour under that tree went much too fast – and I was sad to see our small group gathering up at 11:15 am.  The quietness was growing on me – and I didn’t want it to end. Chris and I were able to enjoy a relaxing quick lunch afterwards before heading to pick up little love from Auntie Lena.We treated Chris to a movie (sorry babe, no Transformers until Wednesday…what a bummer….can you feel my sarcasm…).  After the movie, we had a little water sprinkler action in the backyard and at 4:00 pm, I realized our daughter had not napped! Yikes. Dinner was scheduled for 5:30, so I needed her to take a power nap, quick!  We ate at Lambert’s downtown…and I’ve just got to say – not a fan!  I’m not a big BBQ eater anyways…but even the salad I ordered…yuck.  I knew for sure I’d be eating cereal later for dinner J  I think Chris enjoyed his and Tatum was still half asleep…and of course, we were eating at the Senior Citizen time, so by 6:30 we were done.  Downtown was completely dead – all stores closed, so we enjoyed a nice little drive in the air conditioned truck.  On our way home, we stopped to buy Tatum her little swimming pool from Wal-Mart and spent the rest of the night swimming & sliding!  She’s so cute & getting so big.  And apparently very smart because she somehow told Amanda this morning that mommy is having a baby?  Very interesting.  Because as of today – I am not.  I was sad to see my weekend end – and dragging a little today at work.  Hence the reason I’m writing a personal blog…. Ha.  Chris’ bday week is this week – officially bday being Saturday!  We are headed up to Frisco to play with the Davis’ for Friday/Saturday – and we cannot wait!