I Can Do This!!!

Today, I am hosting my first ladies fellowship at our house.  These series of meetings each month were my idea, and HH has happily supported them. 

Here are some of the goods we are having...

Spicy Chicken Tomato Soup

Chili and Garlic Chex Mix

I love making different versions of Chex Mix, because they are so quick.  They always end up being a big hit.

Veggie Pizza:

Fruit Brownie Pizza:

While making some of the brownie pizza, a bit spilled over the edge in the stove.  I think to myself, "I'll get that later."  While making the crescent roll pizza base, things start to get smoky, and the brownie blop had caught on fire.  Fortunately, it was a very small one, and all food was still able to be saved. 

HH helping prepare things with me in the kitchen...think I've got some things to teach him!  He's actually doing an impression of Kevin from the Office.

HH wrangled up the cats to put them in the basement.  I did a few final touches on our house.  All the food had to be stuff that I could just pull out and go since we are having this event right after church at our house. 

Merry Madagascar ICE in Nashville

A few months back, I told my parents to "save the date," for one of the days I would be back home.  Ben and I had went to ICE, and I wanted to share this experience with my parents.

They fly in forty artisans from China to create this massive artwork exhibit.

There is nothing that my parents would have gone to on their own.  They both had a great time.  We got a long time to talk in the car on the way down and back (three hours each way).  On the way back, I added about fifteen books to my dad's kindle app on his phone.  You can tell we are father daughter, because many of my "weird" book choices were exactly things that he was interested in. 

Until next year Nashville!