insta-friday

this is my first time linking up with insta-friday at life rearranged.

yeah!!!

i've wanted to join the insta-friday party
forever 

{well, since like april, which seems like forever}

i'm still figuring out the insta-gram thingy

{i'm a slow learner, someone help}

i edited  my pix in picnic 

{as usual}
i think "insta" infers that i will not have to spend waste my time editing.
{really, someone help me!}

annnnyway...

here's a peek into our crazy week

{l-r] 

remember the house tour from the last 2 weeks??

well, i failed to mention that while you were touring the house here in blogville,

we were packing up the house. 
everything is pretty much in storage. 

we've been campin' out here all week. 

fun times...

for the kids anyway. 

it's been so chaotic here at  "the jones k.o.a."

that one day i went somewhere without a shower, touching my hair, and without lipstick.
what? 

you do that all. the. time. 

what if i told you i haven't done that since 7th grade would you believe me?

believe it.

another trip to the mini-storage to rent another unit to store all of our junk in.

my neighbor attempted to give me back our

just-in-case-i-get-locked-out-of-the-house-key 

 last week.

i told her to keep it. 

phew!!

my husband has officially lost it. 

it's about time. 

i'm grateful for our friend, michelle, who invited us over in the middle of the craziness,
fed us, and let me veg on her couch.
couches are far cozier than the folding chairs here at our k.o.a..
friends who let you veg on their couch
are cozier than their cozy couches.

we made room for some fun in the midst of the crazy.

while noah and emilie were at youth group 

michael and i went on a date with josie to cpk. 

she wanted lettuce wraps. 

she loves lettuce. 

and yes, our eyes were bigger than our stomachs.

we made room. 

"my kelli" was in town from AUSTRALIA 

so we met up for coffee.

the girls got a fancy chocolate milk and sat a few tables away doing there school work
{noah was in algebra class}

while we poured our hearts out to each other.

i'm think'n  home school should officially be changed to coffee shop school.

do you have that friend that when you are with them 

"the Jesus in you meets with the Jesus in them?"

kelli is that friend to me. 

infact i think the 

Jesus alive in her brings out the Jesus alive in me.

i really needed to be reminded He is alive in me. 

thank you "g.k."

guess who was asked to be a mentor mom for MOPS this year?

uh huh, me. 

am i old enough to be a mentor mom? 

i mean i'm only in my "lower-upper-30's"

but they wanted me. 

i know this, when i was a new mom in my lower 20's 

i looked to those "upper 30's" moms 

and was encouraged by their lives. 

they had survived and thrived!

i also thought they were old, 

but i'm SURE these girls don't think i'm old. 

right?

 finally, this insta-gram photo is fresh of the press!

 guess who let her big sister wear her pink tutu? 

guess whose big brother is now wearing the pink tutu? 

  guess who's going to go try on the pink tutu??


happy friday!