Ladies High Tea

Shell and Linda invited me to the Ladies High Tea at Christ Community Church this year. While I haven't attended CCC regularly for quite a while, I still consider it my Greeley Church home and was really excited to get to spend some time with the ladies of my Greeley family. I'd never been to a "High Tea" before, and was really impressed by all the formality that goes into one. Each table had a hostess who provided their own tea set to share. We had all of the wonderful finger sandwiches, scones, breads and desserts that accompany the tea. Rebekah and I had never tried our tea with milk before and found it was actually very good! Little Katie had more tea than any of the women at our table, highly evidenced by how many times she had to use the little girl's room! We also got to hear a speaker share wonderful memories of how her tea cup collection came to be, and we sang Christmas carols to open and close. As an added bonus, my former coworker Randy and his wife Bev were there in fabulous costumes! Though it was the afternoon after baking day, and we were all very tired, I personally had a really great time!

Baking Day 2007

While I'm still waiting for the big group picture from baking day (my camera died) I decided to go ahead and post a few of the other pics from our day o' fun. If you'd like a little background about baking day, please click here.

Kaitlyn and her sister Rylee
Little Helpers

Let's get this party started!! My sister brought Michelle up to help this year. Michey and I worked really hard to keep the mess under control! And no, we didn't let her have any Bailey's!!
Everyone hard at work
Michelle with the finished product ready to be distributed to several different platters and bags.

Happy Birthday, Shell!!!

Well...baking pictures will have to wait. I'm a little behind, so here's what else has been going on!

Shell's birthday was on the 27th. After working on some of the refrigerated dough, some of the fam came over for pie and ice cream.

My Parent's Christmas Tree

I helped my mom decorate their tree while I was visiting last weekend. It's always fun to see all the ornaments they've collected over the years!!

Electra Critters

We went to the Pueblo Zoo in the very cold weather to look at very cute lights! It was a great night. Here is Paul giving himself bunny ears next to the bunny... My Christmas light pictures didn't turn out too well!

Poker in Pueblo

After having a Thanksgiving meal with Paul's family on the 24th, we pulled out the games. First it was Apples to Apples, and then his dad joined us for some poker. They all had to teach me, of course I was the first one out, and it was really fun seeing all the competition between them!