Josiah's Baptism

Nearly 2 weeks ago, we had a packed weekend. Friday, Mommy, Willa, and me went to a homeschool conference in Nashville. Saturday, Mommy took Emma with her and Willa stayed to watch the kids and I stayed home to cook. And cook I did. You see, we were preparing a feast for roughly 80 people to celebrate Josiah's baptism and our church membership. Thankfully Mommy and Emma got home around 3 pm to help me chop 6 lbs of cherry tomatoes...Even Camille joined the fun around 9pm when we were *still* chopping!

Having our meeting place be so close was a huge blessing- we ran food over to the fridges many, many times. This was the last bit Sunday morning.

The following pictures are courtesy of Mr. Draper.

Our new church body!

Pastor Lovett baptised him.

He was so good about it.

And made the cutest faces.

Our church always eats lunch together after the service- crock-pot-luck-style- but today we wanted to have a "feast!"

Menu:

Ham

Pesto pasta

Rolls+honey butter

Salad

Veggie salad

Crockpot pizza

Strawberry shortcake

Brownies

And guess what! No one got food poisoning. :D

Apparently some people enjoyed the food.

On the right are honey butter balls- sooo good. :D

Forgive the awful lighting. We love hanging out late into the evening every week. We don't stay as late as some folks, though. :) This scene is typical though: Lots of talking, ping ponging, snacking, and joking.

(An ingenious idea: Chalkboard cups!)

Amazing Lattes provided by Kaliste and Tricia Ann.

Around 10:30 we realized Daddy had a slight fever... we left around 11... by 12 Daddy had a *high* fever and was practically delirious. He was in a lot of pain. :( Thankfully his fever broke at 1 am and we all got a good night sleep- a strange end to our packed weekend. Daddy had/has pneumonia, for your fyi.

Quote of the day:
Elsie: Olivia, shut the door!
Elsie: *turns off light*
Emma: Elsie, stick out your tongue. (she was brushing her teeth ;)
Elsie: *wispers* who arrreyou?