My Very Long Hiatus

It's been three months exactly since my last blog post!  Yikes!  But things have been busy, busy, busy and I just haven't had much time for blogging.  Besides, most of the things I've been up to couldn't be written about because they were gifts/surprises for some of my (very few) readers!

So this is going to be kind of a catch up on the last 3 months.

We celebrated my oldest son's 16th birthday by going to a motorcycle museum.  My son requested Grammy's bread pudding as his birthday treat.  He's not keen on sweets anymore and it'd been a long time since I'd made the bread pudding. 

 

I was attending Every Woman's Grace bible study and had signed up to bring a bread to share.  I tried a new recipe for pumpkin scones and they looked delicious.  However, they were quite dry and heavy but my hubby really liked them.  IF I use the recipe again I will tweek it.

 

My older sister and honorary mother-in-law (my youngest sister's actual mother-in-law) worked together to give my younger sister a surprise baby shower the weekend after Thanksgiving.  My sister and her family live out of state and wouldn't make it back for our Christmas get together since she's due right around that time so we wanted to make the most of the time that they were here for Thanksgiving.  We had a preChristmas celebration as well as the surprise baby shower.  After our meal my two sisters went for a quick walk and that's when MIL L and I quickly set up the shower decorations and such.

These are just some of the receiving blankets, bibs and wash cloths that I made for my new baby niece.

These are the cute little Ugg-like boots that I crocheted for her.

I put together a cute little cardboard oven for the shower.

 The refreshment table at the shower.

 All the gifts for baby niece.

 Not a great picture but these are the tissue pompoms I made for decoration.

 MIL made the cutest pennant banners for the shower.

 This, if you hadn't already guessed, was our theme for the shower!

And this is li'l sis L with her bun in the oven and her now middle daughter miss T.

 

Our church has an annual event for the ladies every December called the Candlelight Christmas Coffee where we decorate 35 tables, all differently, and get served coffee, tea and cider by some of the men in the church and listen to a special speaker and special music.  It's a wonderful evening of fellowship and spiritual encouragement.  This year I co-hosted a table with my friend C.  The theme of the evening was Celebrating Hope and featured Linesa Keith and the International Princess Project.

 Our Christmas Coffee table.

 We celebrate hope in knowing that God is Sovereign and He holds tomorrow!

My co-host and I.

 The decorations were amazing for the event!

 Our pastor's wife Kris Goertzen shared her testimony and Linesa shared music from her album Greatest Mystery as well as some of her life story and how the International Princess Project began.

 The women in India who have been rescued from sex slavery are taught a trade in sewing and they make the most beautiful "punjammies".

 

There's been a lot more than this going on but it would take too long to write about it and I didn't take pictures of the various things I did during these last three months.  That's been my blunder but I've been so blessed during these busy months!