In the last month, wev’e gotten to…
Spend a night at a lake house with our IV staff team
Spend a night with Dave & Jess watching a great movie, “Bella.”
Spend a day with my preggo friend, April (who “poppped” last week! 
Play Catan/Cities & Knights with Jim & Jamie (I won!)
Play Catan/Cities & Knights with Ryan & Joy (Dave won!)
Spend a day with my mom. Go see *The Proposal* (loved it)
Spend a few hours with Phil (who lives in Oakland, CA)
Enjoy endless hours of socializing with IV staff from across the country during our Madison trip
Enjoy a ice cream/ *Transformers* movie date with Dave (didn’t love… the movie that is)
Spend a couple days chillin’, relaxin’, coolin’ in Saugutuck, enjoy a little Lake MI sunset with Jim & Jamie
Go to the beach with Dave & Jess, Jason & Sonia, Rueben & Ransom (the kiddos)
Spend a day at the beach with Jason & Andrea, (who live in Austin, TX) Jim & Jamie & all 7 kiddos
Go see the *Harry Potter* flick with Jason, Andrea, Alayna & Dave (didn’t love unfortunately).
Have dinner with Jason & Andrea, Jim, Jamie & all kiddos
Spend last night playing Catan/Cities & Knights with Jason & Andrea, Jim & Jamie while kiddos watched “Bolt.” (seriously enjoyed some really good bacon cheeseburgers grilled by Jason who -of course- won the game. He always wins & I’m bitter).
Really really really have loved spending days & hours playing with Ransom because of my sabbatical from work. I’ve fallen in love all over again.
And top of all that, I’m about too…
Spend the weekend with Jamileh (my bestest bud) & Elie
Go camping with Fred & Sara, (my in-laws) Dave & Ransom for 3 days
Spend next weekend with York & Jodi (my bestest buds)
And so the moral of the story is…
1. I’m seriously happy…
2. I’m an extrovert & I just can’t hide it…
3. Settler of Catan / Cities & Knights is the BEST game ever.
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you forgot your preaching engagement.
That doesn’t count… it’s not social… but I did forget that I am coming to hot-tub it with you & Marla-moo!
although you know preggers over here can only stay in for like 5 minutes. I’ll have to just my feet in & then sit outside… that should be easy… now that it’s not SNOWING.
Is it okay for me to say: JEALOUS? I miss that kind of community and I often pray God will help me find it again someday. (Underneath my jealousy is also happiness for you that your extrovert self, something I totally get, is being fed so well in these last weeks of rest)
aww, Kate, I’m sorry.
Honestly it’s not the kind of community we have very often either. It seems like the summer opens up more opportunities like this, but we haven’t ever really taken advantage of it until this year… just deciding that spending time with people we love is more important & is ultimately refreshing. I wish it could be like this all year round…’course we’d never cook or get anything done. 
I’ll pray you guys find what your looking for. Our old AD’s said it’s been so rough on them as well with their big move to find real community. Makes me want to rethink just getting out of MI b/c of the stanky weather…. this is where so many of my close peeps live.
Can’t wait for your visit!!! Miss you!