Mother Daughter Banquet

Did I happen to mention that amongst the chaos of moving, last day of school stuff, field day, preschool graduation, karate awards and just general life craziness that Beth and I happened to also get the awesome privilege of being in charge of hosting the Mother Daughter Banquet? Now to be fair when we agreed to do it I had no idea I would be moving or that all that other stuff would be just days after the banquet. I also had no idea just how crazy the end of the school year(s) was going to be either! However it went over swimmingly. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed themselves. Our theme this year was You've Got "Purse"onality. It was all about what a lady carries in her purse and what it says about us being mothers and daughters of God. I got to plan the devotion for it. Isn't that awesome? Anyone who knows me also knows I was ready to vomit over it too! Beth and I worked so very hard though and I think it paid off. Beth is such a creative little soul and she can bargain shop like nobody's business! So our strengths played with one another. We had the lovely Felicity sing for us... she did Carrie Underwood Don't Forget to Remember Me, the lovely Tina V. and Melissa H. with their skit and song, Anything you can do I can do better. We played some fun games. We laughed and we enjoyed being mothers and daughters. We enjoyed this walk together. We celebrated and we loved. That is all I could have asked for. Mel and Tina's skit.

Felicity singing. She did such a wonderful job!

Beth and her girls.

Our tales. Our colors were purple and green and the centerpieces we just did purses with potted flowers in them :)

Some of the lovely momma's and daughters that were able to join us.

One of the many families that joined us that day. 4 generations in just this photograph!

It was just flooring to me how many families we had there with four generations present at the event. All those ladies in a church loving their mom's or daughters or sisters. Truly awesome. Exhausting but worth every minute of the work.

Sunday Night Service

I am so blessed to have musically inclined friends. I am much more so blessed that both of these ladies I am talking about have come down and lead worship on Sunday Nights for our church's Sunday Night Service (which happens once a month). They are so very talented and I love their heart for worship and that they so willingly give of their time and talents. Not just my girl friends but their husband's too. Did I happen to mention I am blessed.

So anyway... The Good family agreed to come down and do the worship service this time and it was such an awesome time. The music was great and getting to visit with my friends was such an added bit of awesomeness. Leanna and Lily (Will and Sarah's daughter is just a few weeks younger than Leanna) are such good little friends too. Leanna is still talking about her time with Lily.

Well the whole gang also went out for some scrumptious dinner/breakfast after service was over to. We found out that at IHOP (bless them that was a lot of little people and big people) they have kids eat free so a whole gaggle of us hopped over there to continue our fellowship and hang time with each other...

Some photos of our time together....

This is my friend Beth with her little daughter Aubrey who is a two months younger than Hudson.

This is my stack of delicious Chocolate Chocolate Chip pancakes (that I didn't even finish half of). Hudson called them Brownies!

Leanna and Lily digging into their stacks of pancakes. For it being so late in the day they were both excellent at the restaurant.

This is Will and Sarah with their youngest little Eva... who I could just eat up all day she is soooo stinking cute!

Last but not least Hudson deciding to eat a lemon... WHOLE... yep that's my boy.


Thanks again Sarah and family. It was awesome to spend some time with you... oh and Sarah brought me laundry detergent (homemade), yep she did, cause we are friends like that and that is just how we roll.