Butterfly Snacks

We've been learning about the life cycle if a butterfly and doing lots of butterfly art in our class so I made these treats for the kids. Also made them for Michael and Mallory's classes.

Family Easter Pix

I haven't had a chance to post any pictures from Easter so I will try to catch up this week. This was our family on Easter Sunday morning. We traded in our traditional Easter duds for costumes for The Easter Song, the musical we presented that morning. I was the only one in regular clothes as I helped with the drama and wasn't actually in the production. Paul played King Herod and the kids were townspeople.

Chris Tomlin and some sweets

Chris Tomlin put on an awesome concert at the conference. He was so sweet natured too. I didn't realize how many worship songs he had written! It was just so fabulous to hear him do them all live

Also pictured here is the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral, a brown sugar pound cake I made for our friends who kept the kids all day Sunday when Paul was sick and I was away. And a cookie pizza I made for Michael's class to celebrate his summer birthday.

Have you ever...

seen cotton candy served in a restaurant? I hadn't either til today...

Circle Up

We're on our way to the Women of Joy conference in the Gatlinburg area. We met at the church at 530 this morning to board our coach for the 7 hour drive. Before we left we circled up for prayer. One of the husband's snapped this photo from the porch of the parsonage.

Beach Memories

Lothar took this picture. Love it.

"My momma had eight kids..."

Paul's family's reunion was this weekend. When we first got married he would say "my momma had eight kids" all the time. Like when I made a dessert and he wasn't that interested he'd say "my momma had eight kids and we just didn't have a lot of sweets" ...stuff like that. Here's a picture of the eight kids from yesterday's festivities:

This is the birth order but not the order in the picture:
Bruce 1949
Joey 1950
John 1951
Doreen 1955
Fred 1957
Mary 1958
Paul 1959
Annette 1964