Tea Party and Rock & Roll

We celebrated Maggie’s birthday with a tea party at Grandma’s house with all the girls.

  There was lots of fun and yummy food! And while I was there enjoying myself, Chris and Will were waiting in line in the rain for Winter Jam!

Zack and Andy drove up for it. Tatum and the Paulsons came… It was a rockin’ good time! And David Crowder was our favorite!!!

 

Pumpkin Bash 2013

We thought this might just be the year… the year without rain. But we were wrong! But not even rain can put a damper on the funnest post-Halloween bash of the year!

Chris had to miss this year but Zack and Andy came up from Monmouth (and brought Keegan and Ilsa up, too) for the weekend! It’s just too hard to pass up an opportunity to shoot guns at pumpkins!

It was quieter this year, but that’s just the way we like it. Everyone knew what they were doing and there was plenty of space for everyone on the line. It was a great day!

Before bashing…

 

After bashing

Even I did some shooting this year…

So did Andy…

Zack did, too. But we didn’t get any shots of him. William just shot pictures…

You can’t bash pumpkins without guns!

Toeing the line

     Ready, aim, fire!

I probably shouldn’t have eaten so much of the yummy chili that Jan and Steve brought. I was hardly hungry at all for Chad’s birthday party at the Mongolian Grill! Thankfully, we didn’t go for the food! :o)

Harvest Party 2013

This year we had our Harvest Party at Catlin Elementary again. Only this year, the school sent home 300 invitations with all their students and put up posters and signs around the school! We also put out invitations at the day care, CPC and Lynn’s Burgers downtown. And, to top it all off, we got on the local radio station somehow??? :o)

Needless to say, we were a little concerned about how many families we would have come out. Unfortunately, we were quite short on the number of helpers that were volunteering! Details were coming together, prayers were said and God came through just as always!

We had plenty of help, set up in plenty of time (despite the after-school program being in the gym the first hour), LOTS of pizza (all our helpers got to take one home) and lots of fun was had by all!

The weather was warm for trick or treating, and many people didn’t stay long. But we had 64 families (about 210 people) come and enjoy our food, games, story and fun! Now we pray that God will be given the glory and do the work He wants to do!