Time Keeps On Slipping...

I have good intentions to blog, I even take certain photos for the blog, and then never sit down to actually blog! Even now, my kitchen sink has dirty dishes in it, my floors desperately need to be mopped and the laundry basket is calling my name. I choose to blog. I choose to so that a year from now, or ten years from now when I can't remember what we did, I can look it up! Or even better years from now my children can look back and not just have a memory or a photo but a blog of their life! So here's to blogging (raise your glass) now on with it.

Saturday I was asked to speak at our first Women's Ministry Event for the year. We hosted a Tea. It was a lot of fun. My favorite food was the cucumber sandwiches with cream cheese and fresh dill. yum. Makes me ready to plant our garden! We are going to try to do a small garden this summer. Maybe even one of the gutter gardens that I've seen on pinterest (using housing gutters)
We had a great turnout at the tea, right at 20 ladies. I had ladies that aged from 18 up through their 70's. I spoke on SHOES (what women doesn't like or own a pair of them!) I had a whole bag full of different kinds of shoes. From bedroom slippers to high heels, and everything in between. I spoke on how we all have our comfortable shoes that we like and we like going places in those shoes- but God may be asking us to try on a different pair of shoes and reach out of our comfort zone and do something for him, that will require HIM because you know if it was your choice you'd rather be doing something else! The ladies received it well. Then I had them all fill out a form that will help me get to know them better and what they enjoy doing. I hope we have many more events to come! Including Craft night! Fun. I pray that this group will grow so that we have to eat in the fellowship hall and then move to the sanctuary for the rest!

I left right at 12:15 and we rushed to Gulfport to see our niece Kristen play soccer against Bekah and Kaitlin in our youth group. They played the other night, but it was hard to take photos, so I wanted to go when it was daylight! Our niece will be 18 this next week, hard to believe. I met her when she was just 5 years old- my time goes by SO FAST!

 Then Sunday we had church, Chris preached (and did good considering he woke up sick as a dog and spent the first two hours of his morning in the bathroom) After that we left and went home then headed to a birthday party for one of the girls from church.

 They have two dogs that had puppies within 2 weeks of each other- so all together they had 19 puppies! I told them they needed to name them all the names of the Duggers babies! They could be the Doggers. Yes I'm that whitty. Chloe has her pooch picked already. I'm not so ready for a dog. We have a cat and that is working out nice, but a dog requires more attention. And when we travel we have to have someone come care for the animals and that is a burden to people.

After the party we had to go to the church and load up a group of teens and head to Biloxi for a Speed the Light Youth service. We took 5 teens with us. It was nice because 4 of them had never been to a STL service so it was good to get them educated on the matter.

Monday the kids had school and Chris and I just worked around the house a bit. I went back to sleep after the little ones went to school and slept until 10 am! It was A-A-A-mazing! I rarely get to fall into a deep sleep after 6 am, so it's nice! That evening I surprised Chris and took him out for his birthday. His special day was Wednesday, but with church I knew we wouldn't get to do much. So we celebrated all week long! That is how I was raised!

Our first stop was this store

(Can't rotate these photos like I could in live writer- any suggestions?)

We left there and headed to Chirs' favorite place to eat (we haven't been there in yearrs!) Someone from our church gave us a $50 gift card for Christmas!!! I saved it for this night!

 We went to Dick's sporting goods after that and found these great softball shoes for cheap cheap! They are normally over $50 and we got them for.... $6.23 So cool.

Chris also got two shirts, one was an Ole Miss shirt for $3 and the Reebok one was $2. What a deal!

These are Chris' new running shoes! They are super neon orange. He likes them. He went for a run as soon as we got home.

Tuesday is a blurr, I can't remember much of anything from that day! Oh yeah I did get an amazing gift from Leland in Alabama!

And Wednesday I took Eli to Walmart early while the little ones were in school. Then Chris took all three kids to the circus while I worked at the church! I taught the Faith Kids Club upstairs and Chris preached for the adult class. Then gave Chris a surprise party after church! Sadly Chris didn't remember to take the camera to the circus and so he didn't bring it to church either. But I did grab a few photos with my camera phone- the quality is poor because I have a cover on it... didn't have time to take it off and clean it before snapping this photo:

Well it's taken me forever to complete this- I've rescued Eli from the swingset, wiped a bottom, picked up a few things from the floor, and closed the door about 3 times! But it is finally FINISHED!!! Time to keep moving! Today is Thursday and I have a concert to take the youth to, so I need to get the house picked up and get my shower and pay a few bills! Not sure what Friday and Saturday have in store! Sunday will we say goodbye to our Pastor and his wife- and Monday starts a new adventure for us as we wait to see who will become the new pastor!