Saturday morning, we had a leisurely start to the day. I had a cup of tea in bed and Benj took the girls some milk in theirs. They started to do some dress up games and chose not to have breakfast in favour of waiting for brunch. We had invited some friends round for morning coffee and something. We decided to make the something. We made banana crumb muffins and had chance to use the new muffin cases from Nanna.
At 10.30 our friends Dan, Andrea and their adorable baby Matthew came over. Naomi and Lilja helped set out blankets and toys for Matty and practiced hospitality on Dan and Andrea. Naomi got out her notepad and took drinks orders then scooted off to the kitchen to prepare them (including the coffees). Lilja helped lay out all the food and dishes.
After they left Naomi decided she would like to help with the washing up, Lilja tucked into some letter practice and Benj started on some more garden work. This is a small patch that lies at the front of the house outside the library/music room, it has this wall in front of it. There was a large overgrown climber and lots of weeds there which Ben has already torn down. The plan is to tidy it up and pave a bit. No doubt we will show you the progress as it's made.
The BIG EVENT of the day was this afternoon. Naomi and Lilja's friends Lily and Ellie were in town (children of Pastor David and Scottie from our Stavanger church). We were invited to celebrate Lily's 7th Birthday. David and Scottie moved to Stavanger in 2006 when Lily was 2. Naomi has been to every Lily Birthday party since that date. Scottie is party organiser extraordinaire. Our girls adore Scottie and her parties. They also love their friends and were over the moon to see them (so were we). It was quite windy so there were not many great photo opportunities.
Here they are playing pass the parcel (apparently David had never seen this game until he played it at Ben's Birthday party). Eating food, yum.
The grown ups had time to socialise too. Here is Ben with Preben and David. Me with Scottie, Ellen and Carrie. Preben and Ellen lived in Stavanger and came to a small home group we hosted some time in 2006-7, they now live in Katy just outside Houston. Preben works for Statoil, they have two lovely boys (Noah and Liam) and also attend our church here in Houston. Carrie and Jason lived in Stavanger around the same time and also live in Katy with their children Kenna and Tobin. It was surreal and also quite wonderful to spend the afternoon with good friends and their families in a totally different location.
The climax of the party with the pinata! Fun and candy, yeah! Well done Scottie for another awesome party, and huge respect for her and David's family for loads of behind the scenes hard work.
At 10.30 our friends Dan, Andrea and their adorable baby Matthew came over. Naomi and Lilja helped set out blankets and toys for Matty and practiced hospitality on Dan and Andrea. Naomi got out her notepad and took drinks orders then scooted off to the kitchen to prepare them (including the coffees). Lilja helped lay out all the food and dishes.
We have made friends with Dan and Andrea through our adult Sunday school class, we were paired up with them as prayer couples during a recent marriage retreat we were able to go on. Andrea has been along to Beth Moore with me on Tuesday nights and she sang with Ben as Ben led the worship at the marriage weekend. So in a short time we feel like we are starting a good friendship, unfortunately they are moving to the Chicago area in a few weeks to be closer to family and starting new jobs:( We will miss them.
After they left Naomi decided she would like to help with the washing up, Lilja tucked into some letter practice and Benj started on some more garden work. This is a small patch that lies at the front of the house outside the library/music room, it has this wall in front of it. There was a large overgrown climber and lots of weeds there which Ben has already torn down. The plan is to tidy it up and pave a bit. No doubt we will show you the progress as it's made.
The BIG EVENT of the day was this afternoon. Naomi and Lilja's friends Lily and Ellie were in town (children of Pastor David and Scottie from our Stavanger church). We were invited to celebrate Lily's 7th Birthday. David and Scottie moved to Stavanger in 2006 when Lily was 2. Naomi has been to every Lily Birthday party since that date. Scottie is party organiser extraordinaire. Our girls adore Scottie and her parties. They also love their friends and were over the moon to see them (so were we). It was quite windy so there were not many great photo opportunities.
Here they are playing pass the parcel (apparently David had never seen this game until he played it at Ben's Birthday party). Eating food, yum.
The grown ups had time to socialise too. Here is Ben with Preben and David. Me with Scottie, Ellen and Carrie. Preben and Ellen lived in Stavanger and came to a small home group we hosted some time in 2006-7, they now live in Katy just outside Houston. Preben works for Statoil, they have two lovely boys (Noah and Liam) and also attend our church here in Houston. Carrie and Jason lived in Stavanger around the same time and also live in Katy with their children Kenna and Tobin. It was surreal and also quite wonderful to spend the afternoon with good friends and their families in a totally different location.
The climax of the party with the pinata! Fun and candy, yeah! Well done Scottie for another awesome party, and huge respect for her and David's family for loads of behind the scenes hard work.
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