Looking back on our busy weekend before we are full swing into a new busy week. I still can't upload any new photos but I have many photos that show the state of the yard from years past and things look quite similar for this time of year.
Friday May 10th: On Friday evening we had our Princess Pajama Party at church and it was a hit! I joined Jamie, Addy and Granny at church and we were all in our comfy jammies. I had my Ugg slippers on, too. There was a hair braiding station, coloring stations, nail polish stations, animal face masks that were facials, wonderful snacks and then an hour long movie where the littles plopped down on their blankies and pillows with popcorn and licorice! Those adults who were still young enough to plop down easily and get up again got comfy with the littles, too. I stayed in a chair.
Friday night into the wee hours of Saturday we had a wonderful treat of the aurora borealis. I wish I could show you my photos. Amazing pinks and greens and blues looking straight up and for a time more on the horizon view we got the typical green frosty views. Those were clearer to the naked eye but the views right above were visible from camera photos which was very strange. You could see swaths of something looking up but no color until you looked at the images you snapped! A bucket list item to check off without flying to Iceland!
Saturday May 11th: On Saturday morning I met up with these two along with their mommy and granny and we walked the Rotary trail with an added loop to make it a 5k Strong Mom Walk that the City parks put on.
Saturday afternoon our now not as new Pastor and his creative wife had an open house for our church body to show us how things have shaped up at their new to them home. Many of our church body helped them move their stuff into the garage and get flooring pulled out and new flooring in etc, etc. and they wanted to have a little thank you for helping gathering. Our Pastor's wife painted most of the walls in the home, used their stuff and gathered new stuff and decorated the whole home in such a lovely way. It was fun to have seen the before so we could really enjoy the 'after'!
Sunday May 12th, Mother's Day:
Sunday service was full with moms and their kids and our service was God honoring as usual with some very nice tributes to moms as well.
Sunday evening our Colville family came over for a Mother's day meal and we had a good time catching up with them. JJ was eager to fill us in on all the things his dad and he did while the girls were at the mother daughter event at church.
As I type I hear the washing machine going. I'm putting fresh linens in both of our guest rooms. Our guest rooms will be used this weekend by our former Pastor's parents and brother who are traveling here for the wedding of our former pastor's son on Saturday. We will miss the wedding since we are leaving for a long weekend on the other side of the mountains with this lovely crew below.
Planning: Laundry, a little dusting, mowing and packing is on my agenda for the week.
Organizing:
Things for our guests who will arrive while we are gone and leave before we return.
Continuing:
With the missions prayer challenge.
I didn't mention it last week but I've been doing a workout with a video daily except for Sundays. Today will be my 31st day!
Weeding out photos from past blog posts. Tedious and a little frustrating.
Reading:
Our church handed out a 31 day devotional for Women on Mother's Day. All ladies 18 and up received one if they wanted one. Gospel Meditations for Women.
My daily Bible readings this week are in 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, Psalms and Acts.
I'm still reading through the Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges.
Quotable:
John Owen: "If you have any regard to the constancy of your faith, to the comfort of your life, the honor of God, for the salvation of your own soul, labor immediately to get your belief of the Word better founded.
Read the scripture constantly, study it seriously, search it diligently, hear it explained and applied by others, meditate on it yourself, and beg of God an understanding of it and a right faith in it."
Thankful:
So thankful for all the love showered on me by our children and grandchildren. God is good to me.
Have a great week ahead everyone!
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