Spring Tea

Lately, I have been reflecting on where we were just a year ago. A year ago Zane was applying to job after job while we waited and prayed. He would come home from work frustrated with the situation there and discouraged by the seemingly black hole that is the online job application process. I would wonder if we were about to move and to where. This time last year, I was finishing up the first trimester of a pregnancy that was giving me a beating. I wondered if it was a little boy or a little girl growing inside me and what our family would look like as a family of four. 

Reflection is a good thing because it reminds us that God is indeed faithful.

God answered our prayers and provided a great new job in a place He clearly had picked out for us because we would never have imagined moving to CA on our own.

He answered our prayers with a healthy baby girl who will be six months old in just a few weeks.

And He answered our prayers over and abundantly in the home and neighborhood where He placed us.

We celebrated our Lincoln Avenue community this afternoon with a Mother-Daughter Tea in our backyard. It was a perfect day. And it was special that my mother could be here too for it. (It would have looked NOTHING like the pictures below had she not been here to help!)

Thank you Pinterest for so many of the ideas!

9 mothers and 10 daughters and a couple of dolls

Tea

Cake Pops (Ask me sometime about all things I know not to do when making cake pops :o))

Crafts

Playing with dolls

McKayla thinks Lucy is even better than a doll!

What cute girls!

 Our attempt at getting a picture of all of the girls together (note Mom and Jenn trying to hide behind the girls)

Out-takes...

Lucy loves her Gigi

 

Had to get a few pictures of my cute baby. She behaved like a doll all afternoon!

Thank you friends for bringing such joy and companionship to our lives. Thank you Gigi for cooking and cleaning and babysitting and for being the original mother who instilled a love of tea parties and being "gurls" in her daughter. Thank you Nonni for the beautiful matching dresses. Thank you Daddy for working so hard that we can have fun like this - we miss you!

And thank you God for the many good big and little things that we could surely live without and don't deserve but so enjoy.