Stearns & Bartons

We invited the Stearns and Barton's over for a brunch and to fellowship/socialize!

Braeden, Mrs. Stearns, Samuel and Connor

 Amanda, Stephanie and Parker are working on the puzzle

The fruit bowl

The little people table, sorry Braeden and Talbot!

 The adult table where we had some good discussions!
Once everyone was filled with yummy quiche's and strawberry-white chocolate or dark chocolate muffins we went outside to soak in some of the beautiful 80 degree weather! 

Braeden's getting himself a tan!

 Samuel, Talbot, and Connor prefer the shade

 Felicity and Hannah are high nesters! They prefer to have a view!

 The older girls are soaking in some vitamin D and attempting to get what color they can :) 

Look at Aunt Beth, Mrs. Productive!
While soaking in the sun she decided to roll out some peanut butter cake balls.

Mom took out some of her hats so we were all trying them on, this one is my personal favorite :) Even though it totally does not go with my outfit! lol

Parker likes Caramel and she seemed to enjoy sitting in his lap being petted!
(That's one spoiled chicken!) lol

Look at the color on that girls arms! Amanda got some Vitamin D!
Back inside she graced the atmosphere with some pretty piano playing!

This group (minus me) was very adamantly purposed to finish that puzzle before they left! And they were  successful, they left and the puzzle was as finished as it could be, they found that there was three missing pieces, we found one of them in the following days but there still remains two spaces where those two pieces are missing. Woven into that puzzle are hours of laughter and fun with friends! It will always hold the memory that it was finished because Ruthie, Stephanie and Samuel were determined to complete it before they left! That determination made it all the more fun!

After the Stearns left the little kids asked if they could take out the paints

The difference between girls and boys

This is Seth's plate of paint....

and this is Hannah's lol.

We ended the day with a picture of the Mom's, Amanda and a few extra little ones thrown in for good measure! lol
What a cute picture!
It was nice to have you all over!

Fellowship

Michael and Rebekah invited us over one Sunday to fellowship and enjoy some time with them!


Jack

Playing a game of chess...what a CUTIE!

 Felicity holding the newest addition to the small Thomas family, Henry

 We decided to have dessert before dinner! And then we played a fun game that was kind of like pictionary.
Thank you so much for having us over Thomases! It's always nice to get together with you!

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Fellowship with The Eckersons

 Aw, I love how Mr. and Mrs. Eckerson are together so much!
Just touches a soft spot in my heart! :)

 Laughter is good medicine.

Capturing moments

 

Cuties :)

The other side of the table cuties!

 Tabitha, Becky and Emily, dear girls they both are! 

 

Concluding the night with singing and Bible reading

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Thank you so much to the Eckerson family for having us over! It was so much fun to talk and laugh with you all!!!

Fellowship

The Miller's came down for the MassHope Conference and stayed with the Kaisers, so the Kaisers invited us over to spend some time with them all!

In this picture we were laughing at Mrs. Kaiser and Mom, they're so much fun when they get together!

Mom and Mrs. Miller join in and help in the dinner prep

:)

Our little bookworm, she always finds a corner to sit and read  

Poor Joel was getting tired and a little bit cranky but then he cheered up when Christine asked him if he wanted to help her! 

~Random Sunday Fellowship at the Kaisers~

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Jared's training the younger guys in the manly sport of "Air Train Track Building"

But then he broke one of the pieces! Uh-oh, Mrs. Kaiser said he was in trouubllle!
That's a deer caught in the headlights picture if I've ever seen one!

One of our favorite things about going to the Kaisers house is that we always end the night with singing!

♪"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you aleluj-alelujah" ♪

♪ "Jesus is the answer for the world today, above Him there's no other, Jesus is the way"  ♪

♪ " Alelujah, alelu-jah-h-h, a-le-lu-jah, alelu-alelujah" ♪
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Felowship with The Eckersons, Flynns and Mellos

Burgers and hot dogs, with broccoli salad, potato salad, regular salad and lots of yummy foods made up this fellowship meal!

It was nice to spend time talking to the Flynns and Eckersons! We had some great laughs and discussed some  good thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating topics as well! :)

Mr. Flynn is teaching Chester to play guitar!

Ryan, Emily and Mr. Flynn
Emily you look really cute here!

A group of pretty neat people!

It sounded beautiful with so many voices all blending in the singing of hymns! 

I think that's a pretty cute sight to see the little girls all reading along in their hymnals and singing.
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