A Baby shower

I was able to give a shower for a cute girl in our ward, Ann Lloyd, who is having a baby.  She has one little boy who is 7 and has not been able to get pregnant until now.  We are all so happy for her!  

  I have learned to LOVE balloon garlands.  Sophie makes them easy to do.  She blows them up, I tie them and then we both add them to the garland.

I'm always so grateful we took down the wall between the kitchen and living room.  It makes it easy to fit a LOT of people in our house.

The shower started at 10:30, and we had a pretty full house until 12:15.

I made cinnamon rolls, a cheeseball and crackers and fruit dip.  Marilyn brought fruit, Carolyn Williams brought a vegetable tray and Carolyn Bradley brought grapes and 2 kinds of muffins. Everything was DELICIOUS!

Aida helped me make a darling invitation, and I delivered 50 of them.  We had 35 ladies either come or drop by a gift.  Such a great turnout!  Ann really felt loved.

 

Easter Celebration (a week late)

We had a delicious late Easter Dinner.  I cooked a turkey breast and a roast, Jamie brought fruit kabobs and fruit, Krista made delicious bread, Emily made a yummy salad and  Merijane made chocolate chip ice cream sandwhiches.  Everything was so tasty!

It ws a perfect day for a picnic outside, 73 degrees and no wind or wasps.  We played some fun Easter Minute to win it games that the kids really enjoyed.

They had to see how many peeps they could get in a basket in a minute.

The kids had so much fun being together.

He is Risen!

 This year, the church has invited us to celebrate Easter more than just one day.  They have given us a beautiful week long study of the week before Easter.  There are videos, songs, scriptues and talks to help us focus more on the Savior than ever before.  It has been wonderful, and I have loved it.  As I decorated for Easter this year, I tried to focus more on the Savior too.

I have loved all the reminders of Him throughout my home.

I'm going to leave up the Start today with Jesus sign out. It was the Christmas gift Grandpa Cline's bashopric gave  him.   I loved it and brought it home when we were cleaning out his house.  

I am so grateful for this incredible day that changed everything and for my Savior who made it all possible.

Jack's baptism day

April 8th was a wonderful day!  Jack was baptized by his dad and all of our kids and grandkids were there to support him.

It was such a nice day. Jack got to plan the program.  He asked both his grandpa's to give the prayers.  He had Libbie and Gabbie give talks and they were both BEAUTIFUL!  His two grandma's got to be the witnesses, Jordan played the piano and Hailey led the singing.  It was just perfect!  Such a cute boy!  We love him so much and are so proud of him.  Afterwards, we went to his house for a delicious brunch.  We had fruit, muffins, cinnamon rolls,and breakfast casseroles, yummmm!