Brunch with Friends

Last month we had the privilege of having the Derksen family from Canada over for brunch on a Thursday morning.  Brother Derksen preached a series of sermons about "Family" at our church that weekend and they were all such a blessing!  Another family from Florida was in the area during the same time so we invited them over too!  We know them from the BFT camp in Jasper, Texas so it was great to catch up with their family as well.

Mommy loves Sanibel Island and the Derksen's recently were there so we went with a nautical theme for the decorations...(Sanibel is known as the seashell capital of the world)

 Of course there was lots of delicious food...

 It so happened that Thursday was also Daddy and Bethany's birthday so we had a few desserts to enjoy.

 

Sis. Holly & Aunt Rebekah
(The Derksen's stayed the weekend at Uncle Jon and Aunt Rebekah's house.)

 Sis. Miranda & Faith                                               Grammy, Mom, & Sis. Miranda

Joshua & Aaron                                               Bro. Paul & Sis. Holly

Fiesta Preparations - Keepers

This past winter we had to cancel a few Keepers meetings because of snow and sickness. We had a "catch-up" meeting at the Wagner house.  Our badge ceremony this year is going to be Mexican themed so we prepared a Mexican meal and worked on the banquet decorations.

We started the meeting by learning to make tissue paper flowers.

 Elainah chose six different colors of tissue paper so her flower was bright and cheery!! :)

A few of the finished flowers...they will be used for decoration at our banquet in May.

 There are four little guys that usually come with their sisters to the meetings. 
This was just a cute little moment of them playing with a train set :)

 We also made little piñatas out of toilet paper tubes...

Then we all moved to the kitchen where we prepared a Mexican meal.

 Sis. Annette divided us all into groups to work on different parts of the meal.
Joanna, Hope, and Bethany were in charge of making a delicious Pineapple drink.

 Zoe, Abigail N., and I made salsa and guacamole while Anna, Faith, and Elainah fried tortilla chips.

 Elisabeth and Joy

It was a really fun meeting and we all enjoyed learning to make the different Mexican dishes!

~Kaitlyn



{ Brothers }

The other day Joshua was walking around with David on his shoulders when Daddy stuck Benjamin on top of the tower :P  Benjamin seems to be enjoying his perch on David's shoulders!! :)

{Don't worry, Daddy was standing behind as emergency back-up in the above picture :D}

 

 

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How can you not smile when you see these two adorable little guys?!

 

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Our sweet little boy is growing up so quickly!!

 

 

He loves to sit and clap his chubby little hands, its so cute when he does it in church!!