Offering Hopsitality

I've been featured on a wonderful blog over at Offering Hospitality for my spring parties I have done with the kiddos!!!
Head over to their blog and read today's post challenging us to do something fun for the first day of summer.

I'm really enjoying learning from these ladies and growing in the area of hospitality and now my head is swirling with ideas of how to celebrate the first day of summer with my kids. I'm sure that big beautiful lake outside my window will play into it somehow!

Pizza Al Fresco

Today Josh was gone most of the day and I wanted to do something extra special for him when he returned home. I thought a picnic on the patio would be perfect since we are finally having some nice weather today. But, alas...I have no picnicy foods in my cupboard. I did however, have everything to make homemade pizzas! So here is what Josh came home to...

We enjoyed a nice evening on our patio and the kids ate inside with Grandma Faith. Josh got his pesto/feta pizza again and everyone else had turkey peperoni with pineapple. I made cinnamon dessert pizza, tossed green salad and fresh squeezed lemonade.

I broke out the fancy Goodwill china, camping silverware and used some scrapbooking paper for place mats. My favorite bandanna matched perfectly and the table cloth is half of our old bed sheet that Josh put his toe through. LOL! I even had the boys pick some flowers for our little table. Sorry anyone from church, the boys wandered off beyond our yard and took those purple ones from in front of the Ed building. Again, Sorry! ☺ 

I hope you all enjoyed the sun today! 

Hi, Ho! Hi, Ho!

It's off to Zaccheaus' work we go! Tomorrow morning we will be up bright and early for our kids' workshop. I had to miss my do-it-herself class this week due to the busyness of life right now. The kids will be building their own "soccer game" and they are really excited about it! Pics will be posted soon, if I remember my camera this time ;-)

UPDATE

Well, I forgot the camera, of course! But, we still had a great time. Got to see Delilah and her Grandpa there and the instructor was someone I knew long ago. The project wasn't too complicated and everyone's turned out very nice. We followed up our workshop with some cupcakes at Icing on the Cake, downtown. So yummy! Here's one of the finished soccer games...

Sick No More!!!

You may have noticed my absence from blogging recently and I wish I had some fun tale to tell as to why I haven't been on here, but plain and simply we were sick. Actually no "we" but just the male members of the family. They all battled some bacterial infection that presented itself in a number of forms with each person. I'll spare you the details! But, thanks to medicine and lots of rest everyone is feeling 100% again!

Here are some photos from events of the last few weeks that should have been blogged about...

We rescued this little lady from Sunset Square, She was unable to fly and we kept her safe and fed her until she could again. The boys looked her up in their bird book and determined that she is a SHE and she is a house sparrow.

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys...

Gabriel turned 7 in May and this is what he got with his birthday money from Auntie Shandi. We celebrated his special day by watching this movie...

And we took him out for Round Table Pizza, where he ordered the "king arthur supreme" and then back home for his yummy cake that  I made him.

Hope everyone out there in the blogosphere is doing well!