March Break

We're still praying for 3 more guy counselors for March Break Camp. We have a lot of kids signing up, so we're trusting that the Lord will send us the rest of the counselors we need.

Fun with Food

I recently discovered that my camera has a really neat feature for taking pictures of food. I will dedicate this blog to random food pictures I have from the past few weeks.

 I was drafted to help with my sister-in-law's shower a few weeks ago and thought it would be a good chance to try out the cake decorating kit that my amazing sister gave me for my birthday/Christmas. Since it would have been a long commute for her to show me how to use them, I had to try them out.

 David enjoyed being the guinea pig and having the freedom to eat as many as he wanted.

It took me a long time but I had a lot of fun playing around. The ones for the shower turned out too. I didn't get any pictures of them though.

 Moving on we arrive at snack sample pictures for the Treasure Seekers theme. Can you tell what this is supposed to be? (A treasure chest.)

 Have you ever had a "sandy banana"? Simply dip a banana in Jell-o powder. It sounds strange, but somehow tasted sandy...but a good kind of sandy taste. 

 That night while washing potatoes for me to make mashed potatoes, David discovered a heart shaped potato. Isn't that sweet? At least it was until it got all mashed to bits.

This is the masterpiece of them all...the Valentine's dinner that David made for me: lobster tail with garlic butter, twice basked potato, shrimp appetizers and sugar snap peas! I sure am spoiled!

Snow Tunnel

 This past Sunday was our first "quiet Sunday afternoon at home after church" to spend together in 2 months so we wanted to do something together outside. The only problem was that I have cross-country skis and David doesn't...the snow shoes decided they wanted to retire after 40 some years of being on this earth... yet the snow was 3 feet deep. We walked in our snow boots down our road to a trail but discovered there was 3-4 feet of snow instead of a trail. As we walked back into our driveway somewhat disheartened at our lack of options, we both had the same idea. "How long has it been since you made a snow fort?!"

David then chose the biggest snow pile we have (thanks to our kind neighbor that plows part of our driveway once in a while...since the snowblower doesn't make good snow piles.) As I dug away at my little side with a shovel I realized what strength and perseverance David has! I started to think a snow cave would be just as good as a tunnel. =] I was also struck by the fact that I was living a kid's dream, digging a tunnel with someone that actually has the strength, knowledge, tools and perseverance to DIG the tunnel. My sister and I always wanted to make tunnels but I don't think we ever made it all the way through with our little kid hands in soggy, cold mittens.

A few days later as I was driving some kids home that we'd had over at our house and they noticed our tunnel. "Who made the tunnel?" they wanted to know. "David and I did", I replied. "Why?!" they wondered. "Just because we wanted to," I answered. They didn't seem to know what to think of that...two adults making a snow fort...just because.

Our tunnel that's at least 10 feet long

David climbing through

It's big enough for both of us!