National Jelly Bean Day

It's Earth Day, and believe it or not, I did do something small to celebrate.  The other night at Publix, I picked up a nice "Earth Day" bag for Mom, and I surprised her with that this morning.  She liked that.  It's also Administrative Professional Day, or in simpler terms, "Secretary's Day."  No secretaries in the house there, but there is one super awesome holiday that also falls on April 22, and that's this one here:

Happy National Jelly Bean Day!  You'd better believe we celebrated that one.  Of course, these are Jelly Bellies, and to me that's pretty much the same thing.  We had an extra bag and got busy with that one right away.  Maddie loves the cotton candy flavor.  Like Mom, I can pretty much eat any jelly bean in front of me.  Even the black ones!

Speaking of getting busy, we had some setting up to do for this weekend's small group.  Josh created this artwork and I made it super sized so that we could illustrate the Full Armor of God.  We'll add the pieces here, like a paper doll.

Pretty cool, huh?  We had some meetings today to discuss our upcoming events and of course our small groups this Sunday.  Notice Emma's sitting style here at the meeting. 

I have no further comment on this.  But also getting busy outside is a crew that was celebrating Earth Day by removing the trees from the front of the church, and constructing... something.  I'm pretty sure there'll be benches there.

I took these just because I usually don't take these sorts of pictures, but now I can look back after whatever is here has been built and it's many years later, and I can say, "Oh yeah, here that stuff is being built!"

I'm on the treadmill, still walking to the moon, virtually of course.  I was watching this episode of "From Earth to the Moon" that featured a good bit about geography, which was pretty fun.  This has been a great theme, and it'll be fun watching these space-travel inspired movies and shows as I march along, all leading up to an actual visit to the Kennedy Space Center.  Pretty cool.

Moving on, Maddie was at college today, and then doing a tour at Braselton's campus, where the college will be next year.  Maddie will not be there next year.  

Mom and I were sitting on the porch for a good bit today, doing puzzles and reading and just enjoying this marvelous weather outside.  Mom unfortunately has been dealing with some serious poison ivy that dates back to when we were gardening last week.  We're dealing with that the best we can.  It's so annoying to her.

The Braves beat the Nationals again.  Four home runs from the Braves tonight, a real offensive outburst.  BravesVision has been a real treat for us - we're enjoying the commentators and the footage and just having this channel.  We're even watching Stripers games on television, which is pretty wild.  

Tonight we read more from our book "Thud!"  We're approaching the end, although that's a good ways still to go.  It's a longer book, but everyone is still very much into the mystery and the ongoing adventures of the Watch characters.  After that, it was time for prayers - and some much-needed rest!

Jelly Bean Day, Earth Day, Braselton tour, Kidpak Meeting,  space coffee, Moon geography, Braves beat Nat, poison ivy, sitting on porch... updates coming soon...