A Baby Shower Hosted By My "Deer" Family

With our baby boy's due date quickly approaching, my mom and sisters decided to host a lovely shower for us.  They went with a woodland theme and did an amazing job on all the decor preparations and food!

Mommy cut out the "baby boy" in cardboard letters and then hot glued sticks on them.

Hope drilled holes in this log for the donut hole "arrows".

To continue on with the woodland theme, lemon cypress trees were chosen as the favors for our guests.

On this table there was a little game where you could guess how many pacifiers were in the jar.

There were 195 little plastic pacifier beads in the jar!

Mommy and Hope painted all the creative little sayings on the signs.

I enjoyed setting up everything for the trail mix bar.

Benjamin happily let us borrow his stuffed animal squirrel to use for decorating :)

Elainah painted the bear on this sign for Mommy.

There was also a coffee bar with hot coffee and iced coffee made by barista Lillia :)

Everyone was so generous to our little guy!

Working on a game...

...I thought it was a neat game!
How many babies could you match to the correct mommy? :)
(There was a little spelling error on "W." - Cygnet)

These cards were at each table for people to fill out.  

It was fun to see what everyone's guesses were!

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Touring Coronado Farms

Recently there was an open house event at a near by diary operation.  Justin and I went and saw the different farm equipment pieces they had on display and also for a tour of the farm.  They had an employee riding on each of the school buses, driving people through the farm, who gave the tour information as we rode along.  

There is a total of 55,000 cows at this particular farm!

About 6,500 of those cows are milked on a regular bases.

Cotton seed for mixing in the feeds rations. 

In the feed bay there are different stalls with piles of corn silage, canola, wheatlage, and other feeds.

This milking parlor has a rotary that can hold up to 90 cows at a time!!  It slowly makes its way around while the cows are being milked.  There is a cow stepping off/on to be milked every 6 seconds!  

Sweetheart's Dinner

This past weekend Justin and I hosted a sweetheart's dinner for a few couples.  

We folded up the ping pong table and set up tables in our living room for the dinner.  (excuse the vacuum in the picture, it's the only one I have of everything set up)

I found a neat way to fold the napkins on Pinterest.

One guest guessed the exact amount of kisses in jar one! (127)  

For the dinner I went with an Italian theme.

Lasagna Rollups

Shrimp Fettuccine Alfredo

Salad & Bread

The desserts were set up on our kitchen table.

We had a few games for the couples to work on together.

We gave them 5 minutes to finish the poem, "Roses are red, violets are blue..." in their own words.  The winning couple was Cesar and Karen... 

Roses are red,

Violets are blue.

If you do the dishes,

I'll make the food.

Each couple had 3 minutes to come up with a list of as many Bible couples they could think of, (example; Adam & Eve) The winning couple of that game was Uncle Sheldon and Aunt Sharon.  They came up with 17 couples.

"And we should never forget to honor each other;

always be sweethearts; never let it cease."

57-0818 - Rev. William Branham

Puppy Pictures

Sweet Lexi trying to sniff my phone as I was trying to take a picture of her :)

They really wanted to get in the hammock with me!

They love to ride in the back of the truck whenever we take them places with us.

Relaxing in the awesome "winter" weather we've been having. 

14 guests leave, 2 come for a visit...

Our Indiana and Ohio friends left early Tuesday morning and then my family left late Tuesday night.  It was sad to see all our company go--all in one day at that!  But having Roseanna and Joanna come for a visit made it easier!  They were here for a short time so we packed the day very full!!

First, we went to Turkey Creek.  

We saw this little whitetail buck as we drove in...

The creek is running pretty good from all the snowmelt.

What do you know, we saw some turkeys while we were at "turkey" creek! :)

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Hannah invited us over for a yummy lunch before we went to the Chiricahua National Monument.

The blue sky made a beautiful backdrop for the rock formations as we made our way up the road.

Roseanna and Joanna in the grottos.