A Great Autumn Weekend

This whole weekend was great! The weather was great... we spent time with great friends... and we ate an abundance of great food.

Friday 
On Friday, I worked remotely from Westminster in order to see Jeremy preach in chapel.

Thank you for praying for his preparation. He did a very solid job. Here's Jeremy getting comfortable in the pulpit before the students and faculty arrived.

The man standing beside Jeremy is the Dean of Students who organizes each chapel.

Chapel is not mandatory at Westminster and Friday chapels in particular are somewhat sparsely attended. But one of Jeremy's more renowned professors, Vern Poythress, was in attendance and since Jenna was in town visiting... she came too!

After chapel, Jenna, Jeremy and I headed to the campus library. Jeremy and Jenna worked on school assignments and I jumped into some of my many work projects.

It was great to have some "study buddies" for the day.

Best of all, we planned our annual Halloween party with Jenna, Meredith and Kyle for Friday night after Jeremy's last afternoon class.

Usually, we dress up in weird outfits, but this year, everyone was very busy leading up to Friday night, so we opted just to hang out and make dinner. At Meredith's suggestion, we did M.Y.O. pizzas:

Saturday
On Saturday, the fun kept rolling!

Jeremy hunkered down to complete some reading assignments and I drove south to Maryland to see one of my best friends and college buddies, Christy.

Christy and her husband Jamie are also expecting baby #1... which officially means the entire basketball class of 2006 (me, Christy and Eli) are all going to be moms within a few short months of each other. Awesome.


We met at Elk Neck State Park on the Chesapeake Bay in North East, Maryland. The park has a beautiful lighthouse, which was open to the public. We climbed the narrow stairs and got a view of the bay from on high.

Sunday
Unfortunately, I didn't bring a camera on Sunday, but Jeremy and I went to church in the morning and then, drove into the city (Philly) for lunch with some church friends, Jon and Shelley George.

Jon and Shelley introduced us to Zorba's, a tiny little Greek restaurant with tables outside on the sidewalk. We enjoyed hummus and delicious gyros filled with meat (lamb, chicken, beef, fish, depending on what each person ordered), tomato, lettuce, french fries (yeah!), yogurt, spices...

Then, Jon and Shelley introduced us to an ice cream shoppe where I ordered a "regular" cone and got 4 massive scoops.

Needless to say, we were in food comas driving home...

Jeremy was so full and sleepy, he needed a little shut-eye on the couch before cracking the books open again. Ain't he cute! Haha.