Tea Luncheon for Tara and John's little girl

Adoption has a very special place in my heart. I would love to adopt but since it's not possible I LOVE to help others. My friends, Carrie, Brooke, Jen (who couldn't be there) and I hosted a Mother/Daughter tea and we contributed $25.00 each for the cost of food for the tea party. We had 2 showings starting at 11-1 and then another at 2-4. We served 36 lovely ladies at the 1st and 27 at the 2nd. We charged $10.00 for the Ma'ams and 5.00 for the Misses and the total profit would go to Tara and John to help them bring Kami home from Ethiopia. We guessed by the amount of people that were coming she would make 500.00 and imagine our surprise when it was all said and done- we raised over $1300.00-Praise God!!!

We were asked by several people if they can hire us out and now it's a small dream to open up our own Tea shop in Nicholasville and Brooke came up with the name-4 friends 4 Tea. Carrie is the brains behind all of this and she is amazing. We all had a great time helping with it.

Karissa's piano recital

This past Sunday was Karissa's piano recital at Southland's Chapel. She played two pieces and one is Katie's all time favorite song-the Charlie Brown song, Linus and Lucy!
Karissa had it memorized and she did great. She is really enjoying playing which is a huge step because she goes through stages where she wants to quit, but she is too talented too and I won't let her. She takes lessons with Beth Mays, who is a very sweet lady and Karissa loves her.

Happy Easter

Deviled Eggs

This may not be a big deal but this is the first time I've made deviled eggs. My dad and stepmom are coming here for Easter and I'm going to help make Easter dinner with Jeanne. Mary and Dennis are still in Jamaica so it's up to us-scary.

Last year I made beet eggs which is me and my dad's favorite and the only jar I had was a jar that my mom gave me for Christmas filled with spearmint lifesavers, but I washed it out and aired it out and it was good to go....or so I thought. My dad came and he was so excited about them and he ate a couple but didn't say anything then I went to eat one and it tasted minty. I asked him about it and he said it did taste like medicine but he wasn't going to complain. So now the joke is that I can make beet eggs that are yummy and you can have fresh breath after eating them. So now I'm paranoid about tempting new things.

I had a friend come over and go over my menu with me and give me recipes, but she couldn't give the measurements of the devil eggs, she said you just know. So she called her mom and she said the same thing. I also called Mary and got the same response.

So I made them and Jason was my guinea pig, he has had several and says they are pretty good. He's also told me that when he gets home from work (at 4 in the morning!)there will be no one to stop him from eating them! That is a good sign that I made them right!!

A day at the Park

On Tuesday I took the girls and several kids from our court to the park near our house. At first they played in the creek nearby and they they came up to play on the playground. Kendall got to swing for the first time and she loved it. It was such a beautiful day and the breeze felt so good.