Last Weekend

Alyssa and Sam took their Sunday School class on a retreat this past weekend to a camp in Highland Park, NY called Koinonia.  This was the second year they went.  Some of the kids were there last year and had such a good time, that even though they weren't in 7th or 8th grade they still wanted to go again :-)  As you can see, there were almost as many adults as there were kiddos!

There was a little incident, however. On Saturday, Alyssa's car bottomed out on one of the dirt roads they were driving on.  She hit a rock and it put a gash in her oil pan.  Fortunately, one of the guys had extended coverage with his AAA plan, so the car could be towed home at no charge.  I had to drive up there, however, on Sunday to help bring kids home since Alyssa had 3 kids in her car and all the other cars were full.  Kurt has since ordered a new pan and had the new one in place by Tuesday night :-)

This was my weekend :-)  I went to Rachel's bridal shower.  It was loads of fun!

Everyone was asked to bring their favorite recipe.  I struggled with which of my favorite recipes to bring.  I finally decided on this:

How cute:

Surprise!

One of the activities was to get a group together and dress someone up in a 'wedding dress' using toilet paper :-)

Kim was the person at our table that had the pleasure of being all dolled up.  She's getting married later this year, so it only seemed appropriate!

Here's the group!  Bethany won (she's pictured above, too).  She's the little one!

These were the two gifts I won:

Here's the bride and groom to be:

Everyone got 3 beaded necklaces when they arrived.  Every time someone caught you saying Rachel's name, you had to give up one of your necklaces.  Til the shower was over, pretty much everyone had given Bethany their necklaces.  Here she is with about 40 of them :-)  I kept mine to give to another little girl I know ;-)