Whew! After spending Thursday and Friday nights at the Missouri FFA Convention, Flat Jason was a little tired. I let him sleep in on Saturday morning while I headed back to the convention hall (Hearnes) to help edit more releases. In the afternoon I headed back home and planted some flowers. FJ suited up, just in case it started raining, to help me. We planted some native Missouri plants that I bought at the University of Missouri's
Bradford Research and Extension Center. Mostly they are bright flowers that hopefully will draw some butterflies to our backyard. I also stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up some daffodils and hyacinths so the garden would have a little color right now.
On Sunday morning, we headed to church. Jason and I usually attend
Forum Boulevard Christian Church. I've helped out with VBS, and we like it there. The greeters and our preacher, Scott, got a kick out of Flat Jason as we walked through the door. Unfortunately, we were late and had to scoot, no time to explain. Later, during the message, Scott was looking out at the audience and got tickled when he saw FJ looking back. He had me hold him up for everyone to see. LOL It
was pretty funny. Later, we got a photo and got to tell our story. We got to catch up with a few friends, too.
A.J. found us after church, and we all went to Tequila's, the awesome Mexican restaurant behind Gerbes on Nifong, for lunch. I wasn't sure what to order - they had redone their menus, and nothing was in the same place! I decided to try something new - quesadilla fajitas combine my two favorite Mexican dishes. I'm surprised I haven't tried it sooner!
After lunch, we all went to Peace Park downtown for Earth Day. There was a lot of great music, and we ran into more people we knew. I love Columbia! We posed for a photo with a peapod and red fruit. (To the red fruit: I am very sorry, but I could not ascertain whether you were an apple or tomato.) They were advertising local food, which reminds me...I need to start heading to the
Farmers Market on Saturdays. I guess their mission is accomplished! We stopped by the
Bike, Walk and Wheel Week booth for our t-shirts. Flat Jason and I will be attending some of the activities together, especially the skate party sponsored by
Empire Roller Rink (AKA A.J.'s place of employment).
Later, I headed over to Mandi's house for the first meeting of the "Married but single" ladies. Two of the guys are going to Kosovo and one's already in Afghanistan. We had a lovely time sharing information about how to deal with deployments and what specifics we need to know. It's great to know that I have Christian Army wives my own age to lean on. It is a
huge blessing! It's also great to know that we all share another passion - ice cream. Yep, we went on an ice cream (frozen custard) run to Jason's Frozen Custard Factory after dinner. LOL
When I remembered today was Cinco de Mayo, I lamented the fact that the gang wasn't going to get together for Mexican food or to swing a stick at a donkey pinata like we had in the past. But, then I remembered that I was going roller skating at Empire Roller Rink for Bike, Walk and Wheel Week and I got excited! It's been a while since I've been roller skating, and I have to admit I was a little nervous, nervous enough that I didn't skate on the 
floor with Flat Jason. He stayed safely in the booth with AJ and watched the skaters make their rounds. FJ even got to meet Hannah Montana!
