Mini-family reunion and TKD tournament...

Saturday was a full day! After work I came home to a house full of family. My step-daughter, Missy, and her boyfriend, Shane had driven from Fargo to watch Micah and Jordan compete in a taekwondo tournament in Park Rapids. After the tournament everyone came out to visit and have supper together. I had put a roast in the crock pot in the morning and when I arrived at home Missy was whipping up some mashed potatoes and Bob was cooking some vegetables. After the meal Missy did the dishes! What a luxury for this foot weary working woman!

 

Missy and Micah, poised to take pictures with her snazzy new camera...

 

Hazel and Uncle Jordan hang out together...

Audrey wow's Grandpa and Shane with her stacking abilities...



And some taekwondo glamour shots!

 



 

Micah and Jordan drove to a church 1-1/2 hours away tonight. We've had snow storm warnings, so I've stayed up awaiting their safe return. Looks like Jordan is going to spend the night at his friend Ezra's house (our driveway is probably impassable for my car) and Micah just called to let us know she made it safely home. So, I'm off to bed!

 

Tomorrow night we head back to Minneapolis to put Jordan on a plane back to Texas. Prayers for safe travel are appreciated since we have more storm warnings for tomorrow! Hmmm...maybe Jordan should stay for an extra day or two! :D

 

Good-night and peace to you all! (All two of you who read this blog, hee, hee!)

Daughter Micah's baby shower creation!

My daughter, Micah, is going to a friend's baby shower and she wanted to get her something really different. So she decided to make her something. Now this may not be a new idea to some of you out there, but I hadn't seen it before. It's called a diaper cake! I think it turned out really cute!

In case you can't tell from my photos, she used a pizza pan as her base, covered it with a folded baby blanket and then stood a bottle of sparkling grape juice in the middle for a support. Then she rolled up tons of little disposable diapers and arranged them around the bottle holding them together with rubber bands. Then she stacked another tier of diapers on top of the first and then a small third tier. Then she secured a ribbon around each tier and tucked baby items into the ribbon. It's about $50 worth of stuff, but this is one of her best friends so she thought it was worth it.

Oh, and here is a photo of the first lettuce from our garden, with Ranch dressing. You can't get any simpler than that, but it was delicious. Later editions featured boiled egg, bacon bits and garbanzo beans. My favorite combo!

Well, I'm off to enjoy my day!

Shalom!