Dinner and shower

Let's see last Friday Micah and Megan, a young couple from our church had Brother Nowling and me over for dinner. Other than Jessa and Levi we haven't been over to anyone's house to dinner since moving here. We're the ones having people over. They out did themselves. It was better than some of the fanciest restaurant's. We had steak and scallops. I've never had scallops as it's seafood and I don't like seafood usually so I won't spend the money to ever try it, because in my mind I won't like it. Micah did a Mediterranean marinate in it and it was AWESOME. We had to laugh because he said he spent the day trying different recipes before he settled on that one. It was good. We hand Quinoia, which we also had never had before but both of us loved and Brother Nowling kept hounding me to get the recipe so this weekend I'm sure I'll be picking up some. We had asparagus with a mushroom sauce over it and then stuffed tomatoes. Dessert was homemade apple crisp. The whole meal was great. The two of them worked together in the kitchen and there wasn't any part of it that didn't turn out. We enjoyed visiting with just the two of them also. Usually there's others around. I know I told them before but I want to tell them publicly on my blog Micah and Megan thanks so very much. That was very special for us and meant a lot to us.

Saturday was our youth Bible study at Tim and Larry's and we had a good turn out and a great Bible study. Then Sunday morning Jenna asked if I wanted to teach the youth if there weren't anyone for the adult class. I love teaching our youth. They all really get involved and I love it. Sunday night was VLB's and the Lord really blessed.

Now for the shower...I decided to do Joleesa's baby shower early so she would know what she needed and have time to plan financially for things AND Christmas. So several weeks ago Jenna made the invitations and we sent them out to the coworkers at the newspaper, church people, her friends from when she worked at McDonalds, Target, and Captain Cook Hotel. By Monday before it looked we would have about 30 people attending and I was freaking out. The day of we had some cancellations and I was ok with it. Because it was a work night (because Jessa didn't USUALLY work Tuesdays) I decided I would fix tacos for everyone. One of the ladies brought taquitos and jalapeno poppers and another gal from work made mini cupcakes for me (and she wound up being sick and couldn't come but made sure I got the cupcakes). Jessa brought the chips and did dip. It turned out we only had 13 in attendance but it was good party. Jenna had taken the day off and finished up the cleaning and added some more decorations. She made a great diaper cake and put up pregnancy pictures up around the cake. As people came in I encouraged them to eat and then we started the games. We had a total of 5 games. "My water broke" where they melted the ice cube and got the pacifier out. The Wright game where a story was read and the prize was passed around going right and left as the story used those words. Naming the items on the tray with tiebreaker of describing what Joleesa had on. The pin game where they couldn't say "baby" or "Joleesa" or they'd lose their pacifier off their pin. That became really tough as I had them o around the room and introduce themselves and how they knew Joleesa. The string game where they cut off a piece of yarn the length that they thought would go around Joleesa's baby belly. And then those that brought diapers put their name in for a drawing. It was fun and went well. Then she opened her gifts. She got some great gifts. She could mark several "needs' off her list BUT she's grounded from buying more clothes in the 0-3 month size. The shower ended with Jenna giving the grandmother's a picture of the baby's parents. A b&W picture that she took of Dallas and Joleesa that was she printed out and framed. It was a great end.

It still seems so seril that there's going to be baby in the house. That I'm going to be a grandma.

This weekend is our youth activity. Jenna's in charged and we're having a picture scavenger hunt (fitting) and then coming back to our place for home made pizza.

So every week is something and I'd not have it any other way.