Catch up time!

March was a busy month! I know we've posted about the trip (to an extent), but I haven't yet posted anything about the church camp retreat, Cadet Leadership School, the bridal shower, the cleaning day, or the actual trip to Florida. But, today is a Day To Get Stuff Done, so here we go.

Chronologically, the first thing that I haven't yet blogged about is the church retreat we went to. I put all my pictures up on google+, and honestly, I think most of the people who would be interested in seeing them have seen them, so I won't put them up again. However, if you are one of the few who want to see them, let me know and I'll email you the link (I think I'd rather do that than put the link out here on my blog. Cause of all the creepy criminals and stuff who stalk me, ya know). Anyhow, our entire family went to Camp LiLoLi with our friends and their church group. Another family we're friends with went as well which was fun. We girls again got to sleep in the loft above the chapel, which means that we definitely did stay up late talking. Just like last year, we had church services, played lots of games, went sledding, helped out in the kitchen, talked, and played even more games.

Cadet Leadership School was the last weekend in February (I think?). I was on public affairs and admin staff, and Hosanna was in Foxtrot flight.

Jessica's bridal shower was the first Saturday in March. Because of her work schedule, she didn't get here til Friday evening and left on Sunday, and since Kevin was working, he wasn't able to come up with her. But his sisters Christina, Lisa, and Catherine came up. We had a birthday party for Joanna and her little friend Megan Friday evening.






Later that evening, the older kids (Jess, Christina, Lisa, Annetta, Lydia, Hosanna, Joanna, Catherine, Logan, Jordan, Duncan, Megan, and I) went down to the church to set up for the bridal shower! As you can see, it was lovely and purple. (photo credits go to Jess)

The bridal shower was the next day, and it  went well! We had perhaps 60 ladies attend to bless Jess with a nice shower. We played some games (MC'd by yours truly), had a short devotional from Mrs. F, and ate some snacks put on by the ladies of our church. Jess got a lot of gifts as well.

That evening, a representative from Mary Kay came to give Jess and 10 of her friends a lip and facial treatment because Jess had won some sort of prize from David's Bridal.

The second weekend of March was the day that we had a cleaning party at my Grandpa's house. We had a huge dumpster...we started with it empty and ended with it stuffed full. We took a trip to the dump, also. Logan did tall person work on the wall over the stairway, and the rest of us found random jobs hauling stuff out to the dumpster, cleaning, and moving and organizing stuff. (Photo credits from the cleaning go to Clayton.)

After we cleaned, we came up to our house for a pizza supper. We made great progress on the house...we're very appreciative of the people who came out and worked! There's still a ways to go, but Annetta and I went down this evening and did some stuff...we have vacuuming and setting up of furniture (hey, if anyone knows of anyone who's getting rid of beds/mattresses, let us know!), but the vast majority of the interior work is done.

Okeydoke...that's all for this post! Thanks for reading!