Snowboarding 🏂

We had an awesome time snowboarding with some friends!

It was everyone's first time snowboarding except for Hope and Joshua... 

  Hope

And yes, that's me in the cloud of snow 😂

Birthday Party in Arizona

When Kaitlyn flew home, after the baby shower, she invited me to go back to AZ with her! 

It was over my birthday so she had a birthday party for me.

Thank you Kaitlyn and Justin for having me, I had a WONDERFUL time!

  

Carol, Shalom, Lillian, Me, Eunice, Valerie, and Amber

Kaitlyn did a fantastic job on the games she had planned.

One of the games was guess how many Reeses and Gumballs are in the jars and Eunice won them both!

        

  

We all had a really great time!

Mom, David, and Serenah flew out the day before the party so David had fun with his friends.

~ Hope

Kaitlyn's Baby Shower

This past weekend we had a baby shower for Kaitlyn here in Pennsylvania.  

This wreath was hanging by the entrance of the gathering.

Mommy did this sign for the gift table.

We didn't have a scheduled time for Kaitlyn to open gifts. As guests arrived she opened their presents.   There were some chairs set up for those who wanted to watch and then the opened presents were displayed on the table beside Kaitlyn. 

The ladies enjoyed visiting with each other and watching what baby boy Strite was blessed with.

Laurisa has a t-shirt printing business so she made this cute onesie for the baby.

One of Kaitlyn's former co-workers painted the slate sign for the baby.

Aunt Jennifer painted the wooden one there on the table beside the one Judy made.

Mommy had all the snacks and decor for this table ready and Kaitlyn enjoyed setting it all up.

Elainah helped paint the bear on this sign.

Hope painted this deer family

Joshua's work was throwing out these pallets so we used them for part of the trail mix bar décor.

Lillia made the iced coffee for everyone to enjoy.  It was a big hit too!

We cut out big letters from cardboard and hot glued sticks from the yard to spell "BABY BOY".

"Baby" stuffed eggs were on the menu :)
(quail eggs)

Hope drilled holes in a log to hold the donut hole arrows.

We had a game for the ladies to do...

Match the correct "baby" to it's "mommy"!

Another game we had was "Guess How Many Pacifiers" were in the jar.  

The answer was 195!

(They were little pacifier beads hidden in tapioca pearls.)

We had these cards on each table for the ladies to fill out for Baby Strite.

Grace added a little bit of art to her card :)

Serenah wore the onesie Kaitlyn and Justin gave her when they told us they were having a baby.

It says "Auntie Serenah".

The weather was beautiful so the children were all able to be outside on the playground.

Grandmommy and Grammy

Simone and Auntie

Anna, Grace, Hope, Kaitlyn, Rosie, and I

Anna and Serenah

Joy, Ella, and Bethany

The favors were Lemon Cypress trees.
They are a small house plant that is popular during winter.

Hope and I helped the ladies put their trees in little bags to make them easier to take home in their cars.

Ruthie and I                                                     Sweet Sis. Janet

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