One of my sweet students turned 16 a few weeks ago and they asked me to help out.
She decided on a movie on the lawn theme and I was so excited to find out that she chose Despicable ME.
We worked up All Access Passes for the invites and Madison was thrilled!
Then after scouring the internet for sweet treats that would fit in with party we made MINIONS ala Cookbook Queen. They turned out absolutely adorable!
As soon as Madison saw them she found her favorite and hid it before the other guests arrived ;)
That made my kitchen being covered in blue icicng absolutely worth it!
Everyone is decked out in their UGA gear as the Dawgs get ready to take on Boise State. I have to admit its taken me a while to jump on the bandwagon but after making the girls shirts I thought I should join in the fun...
I have to admit it is much more fun to watch a team that actually has a chance.
After cheering for a losing team in both HS and college I was ready to join the hubs DAWGS.
After Faith needed pictures for a class project and I took a stroll down memory lane via the blog I realized how much I have missed it. So I am jumping back in with the Accent Vlog that many of you have seen floating around. I actually ended up turning the concept into an experiment for my rhetoric class and even my high schoolers got a kick out of it. Clicker for remote? Really?!?
I should preface the video by saying that the words stressed are contentions in our household ;) My husband is from Georgia and I am from New Mexico so there are a couple of things that we don't agree on when it comes to verbage! The most interesting part is trying to figure out who our daughters will end up siding with in the debate.
ENJOY!!!
(Has anyone else noticed that regardless of how composed you are the screen shot still makes you look like a dork? Just wondering...)
The instructions are to say these words:
Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught
And answer these questions:
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
After seeing the idea on www.eighteen25.blogspot.com last year I have been counting down the days until we were able to go "egg" ourselves!!! So we stuffed 7 dozen eggs with sweet treats...
and notes that let our friends now how much we loved them!
Then we ran and printed our "calling cards."
Headed out to egg houses!
We hid eggs here...
there...
EVERYWHERE!
By the end of the day we had it down to a science...
we would pull up past our "target", leave the doors open, hide the eggs, ring the doorbell and then RUNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I could have one wish for my girls after their acceptance of Jesus and their Lord and Savior it would be a spirit of gratitude. The highs are that much sweeter and the lows so much easier when we can remember to be thankful so when we have the opportunity to shower those to which we are truly grateful...you better believe we are ALL over it.
I searched the blogsphere for ideas and inspiration but just wasn't smitten with anything. I knew that I didn't want to spend a lot on money and was hoping to just make due with what we had on hand so I dug through the cabinets and found cookie mix, a flower shaped cutter and the rest is history!
We decided that we also needed something chocolatey and who can argue with faces like these?
We baked FLOWER COOKIE pops!
Grace helped mix and cut and Faith...well Faith just kept trying to steal the dough.
My kinda gal ;)
After they cooled and the girls were fast asleep I decided to tackle royal icing for the very first time. I piped the edges and centers...
Then flooded the petals...
Then it was on to our flower pots! My initial thought was to paint them but the more I looked at them the mmore I liked them in their natural state so I hot glued a cute ribbon around them and stuffed them with Easter grass!
A few salted walnut and dark truffles to serve as the dirt and an AMAZINGLY yummy treat was had!
Total cost of the entire project? Less than $1.25 a pot! Can't beat that!
I LOVE our school, not just like but seriously LOVE the kids, the staff, the curriculum...
One of my favorite things of all though is chapel. It sounds a bit trite I know but our kids adore chapel and our staff puts that much more effort in because of it. This semester alone we have been visited by J. Hudson Taylor, Queen Esther, Gladyss Alyward, and King Xerxes. So when it came time for me to present I struggled with how exactly I was going to portray George Muller.
In the end I decided not to even try but instead arrived as his wife to tell of his unshakeable faith and the amazing works that were completed through him. The kids thought it hysterical and my littles made everyone laugh when they later announced that they had known it was me all along. But most importantly we were all challenged or at least I was Muller's consistent prayer life and his belief that God would answer the prayer if it first was spoken.
So many times I fail to take things to the Lord because, well, He already knows and well it doesn't really matter anyway so what's the point. Where is the faith in that? I must pray fully trusting and completely believing that God will hear my prayers and attend to my needs. I must learn to be ALL IN.
Sorry abot the hiatus...it wasn't planned it just happen.
And then I started wondering whether it was really worth all the time and effort it takes to be a consitent blogger. After much thought and prayer I realized that I missed the day to day record of our family and that 30 to play had been swept aside as well. So we're back and ready for all the fun and frustration that comes with life. Be prepared for post overload as I try to catch up on all that has happened in the last month!
And I've told myself that even if I don't catch up it will be ok. Because looking back and seeing pics of my girls and their smiling faces is priceless no matter when the moments were captured!
