Looking back on our busy weekend before we are full swing into a new busy week. I still can’t upload any new photos but I have many photos that show the state of the yard from years past and things look quite similar for this time of year.
Friday May 10th: On Friday evening we had our Princess Pajama Party at church and it was a hit! I joined Jamie, Addy and Granny at church and we were all in our comfy jammies. I had my Ugg slippers on, too. There was a hair braiding station, coloring stations, nail polish stations, animal face masks that were facials, wonderful snacks and then an hour long movie where the littles plopped down on their blankies and pillows with popcorn and licorice! Those adults who were still young enough to plop down easily and get up again got comfy with the littles, too. I stayed in a chair.
Friday night into the wee hours of Saturday we had a wonderful treat of the aurora borealis. I wish I could show you my photos. Amazing pinks and greens and blues looking straight up and for a time more on the horizon view we got the typical green frosty views. Those were clearer to the naked eye but the views right above were visible from camera photos which was very strange. You could see swaths of something looking up but no color until you looked at the images you snapped! A bucket list item to check off without flying to Iceland!
Saturday May 11th: On Saturday morning I met up with these two along with their mommy and granny and we walked the Rotary trail with an added loop to make it a 5k Strong Mom Walk that the City parks put on.
Saturday afternoon our now not as new Pastor and his creative wife had an open house for our church body to show us how things have shaped up at their new to them home. Many of our church body helped them move their stuff into the garage and get flooring pulled out and new flooring in etc, etc. and they wanted to have a little thank you for helping gathering. Our Pastor’s wife painted most of the walls in the home, used their stuff and gathered new stuff and decorated the whole home in such a lovely way. It was fun to have seen the before so we could really enjoy the ‘after’!
Sunday May 12th, Mother’s Day:
Sunday service was full with moms and their kids and our service was God honoring as usual with some very nice tributes to moms as well.
Sunday evening our Colville family came over for a Mother’s day meal and we had a good time catching up with them. JJ was eager to fill us in on all the things his dad and he did while the girls were at the mother daughter event at church.
As I type I hear the washing machine going. I’m putting fresh linens in both of our guest rooms. Our guest rooms will be used this weekend by our former Pastor’s parents and brother who are traveling here for the wedding of our former pastor’s son on Saturday. We will miss the wedding since we are leaving for a long weekend on the other side of the mountains with this lovely crew below.
Planning: Laundry, a little dusting, mowing and packing is on my agenda for the week.
Organizing:
Things for our guests who will arrive while we are gone and leave before we return.
Continuing:
With the missions prayer challenge.
I didn’t mention it last week but I’ve been doing a workout with a video daily except for Sundays. Today will be my 31st day!
Weeding out photos from past blog posts. Tedious and a little frustrating.
Reading:
Our church handed out a 31 day devotional for Women on Mother’s Day. All ladies 18 and up received one if they wanted one. Gospel Meditations for Women.
My daily Bible readings this week are in 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, Psalms and Acts.
I’m still reading through the Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges.
Quotable:
John Owen: “If you have any regard to the constancy of your faith, to the comfort of your life, the honor of God, for the salvation of your own soul, labor immediately to get your belief of the Word better founded.
Read the scripture constantly, study it seriously, search it diligently, hear it explained and applied by others, meditate on it yourself, and beg of God an understanding of it and a right faith in it.”
Thankful:
So thankful for all the love showered on me by our children and grandchildren. God is good to me.
Have a great week ahead everyone!
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
I imagine the lights were beautiful where you live. We were totally amazed that they could be seen as far south as Alabama! They said it hasn’t happened in such a big way here since 1853. We could see mostly pinks here and for most of the viewing here, you had to see the colors through your camera (phone) lens.
It was such a fun experience! Glad you could see them, too.
…I hope that you have a wonderful Mother’s Day.
Thank you, Tom. It was lovely!
Spring looks beautiful there, and lovely photos of you all. It looks like you had a wonderful Mother’s Day!
Spring is special for sure. Thanks so much for visiting and commenting. Happy new week to you!
That’s wonderful to see the Northern Lights from your home! The sky was kind of a very light reddish here — like a fading sunset but dark all around. The camera didn’t show much at all. I think we have too many lights around us. The mother/daughter/grandmother event sounds like so much fun for all generations. Enjoy your trip to the big city! Sallie
Sallie, since we have no street lights and few house lights left on at night it was probably easier for us to see. thank you for stopping by!
we have been so exhausted lately and went to bed rather early and missed the northern lights..
wow! You had a busy wonderful weekend!
have a blessed week!
Monica, I hope you have a good peaceful week!
Things looking beautiful in your area.
Sounds like a wonderful week.
Thank you, Karen.
All sounds fun and good, but congratulations on the workouts. I’ve been off and onish over the years. I feel better when I do something. Time for me to get to it.
Bless you for your hospitality ❤
So glad your Mother’s Day was very special 🙂 such a super week and I loved reading about it and seeing these great photos. Thank you Ellen!
Aw sorry to hear about your picture upload problems. I get so frustrated with computer issues and I’ve had my fair share of late! I love the idea of a mother daughter pj party – what fun! Glad you enjoyed your Mother’s Day weekend Ellen. I should take your advice and start doing more bible studying and also the daily exercising. That quote from John Owen got me thinking!!! Thanks for always sharing your inspirations and snippets of your life. Have a wonderful weekend with your fam jam! The weeding can wait!
Good thing you are retired! That’s a busy week past and a new one coming. Hope you untangle your technical knots soon.
Those family smiles do tell the best story!