Suprise!

I sent Brother Nowling and Levi to the store to pick up rice for dinner Sunday and my husband actually came back with flowers for me. Yes flowers, yellow tulips. It was a great surprise. I can't hardly remember the last time he got me flower. I don't encourage him to get the expensive ones on the holidays because they just cost way too much to die in a week or so. These were from the floral department in the grocery store. I cut them down and put them in my yellow tea pot along with the leaves. The girls, him (and even Levi) were trying to get me to use a regular vase and I wouldn't. It turns out they look pretty good in my tea pot. You see I collect tea pots I have 15 or so of them (different seasons too) and I like to use them as centerpieces on my table.




In other news, I'm trying to tie things up for ladies retreat. Sister Deborah Perkins is our guest speaker. Her and Brother Danny are coming up. Sister Deborah has never flown and she trusting the Lord regarding her great fear. They're flying standby so please remember them in your prayers both for her to feel His calm and everything goes smoothly as they fly. Of course remember the retreat. We really want the Lord to bless. Alaska's state flower is Forget Me Nots and I felt inspired to use that as our theme. Think about it there's so much NOT TO FORGET when it comes to our Lord. I talked to Sister Deborah today and one of the things I'm really excited about is that I've asked if we could have a music class where she would teach us some new songs. I love learning new songs and who better to teach us.

To top of pulling everything together for ladies retreat we are planning a fundraiser to boost our building expense fund. We have 3 great photographers at our local church so why not use their talent. We are doing 30 minute studio photo shoots. Jenna, Micah and Megan will be alternating shooting the photos and editing and then will burn them to a CD and the people can print their own. Cost just $20. You can't beat that. We're going have some bake goods to sale also as to raise funds for mission. I'm really praying this will be successful financially but also allowing us to meat people.

Along with the retreat and fundraiser, I have to finish with my camp planning as camp is less a month after the retreat. Ugh! Lord help me. I'm having a hard time focusing on any one of them.

Then on top of those church things we have a baby shower for Jessa. I want it to be so special for her.

Between the fundraiser and ladies retreat I'm going to take a break and fly over Friday night, May 9Th to Seattle to spend the day with one of the ladies I work with. She's going there for a few days by herself to celebrate her birthday. I'm going to stay with her Friday night and then we're going to the space needle and then do some shopping and then I'll head back Saturday night. It's been so long since I've done anything without my family, so I'm so looking forward to it.

Then I'm going to take 3 days of vacation to spend with the Perkins going sight seeing. So a busy time but a great time.