Mom's Birthday & Mystery Trip

As I was scrolling through my blog today, I realized that it looks kind of blah with just all of my typing, and it is time to post pictures.


Last Sunday(before Easter) we celebrated Mom's birthday. Heidi and I made dinner for her, but I'm not sure how good it was... at least the stuff that I made. I thought I was a good cook, but according to my family, I'm not sure. I think they were partly teasing me, but I don't know... they were probably serious. :)
One of the things I made was rice. I hate rice and I never eat it. So why would I ever make it? Well Heidi made me make it, and yes, it might have been a bit watery, but it worked... I guess :)

Anyways, it was a beautiful day out, so it was nice to just hang around the house with the fam. Especially Bridget. :)

These aren't the greatest pictures, but hey, they're pictures, right?

Little Miss Bridget seriously loves the piano. :)

Bridget was so helpful with the bow... I think she continued to chew on it long after unwrapping.

Uncle Luke & Bridget-- she ADORES him. She just laughs and giggles at this silly dude.



Ok, now I'm totally switching topics here. A few weeks ago our young group took a "Mystery Trip" and we had no idea where we were going. We got on a bus and we began to drive. We figured out it was somewhere in Iowa... and sure enough, we went to Bloomfield!

I was excited when I found out we were going there, because I already knew a couple people from there!

We got to the church in Bloomfield at around 2:00, and then we went and toured some Amish places because 1/4 of their population is Amish.

We came back to church and had a dinner, which was fun because they did some things kind of different, and then we had a singing.

Kendra L. and I got to stay with Kendra Wuthrich... which was super fun. We went into town and went power walking with Meredith and the girls staying with her.

Then we helped Kendra with her cat chores, and stayed up way too late talking.

All of us girls, + the little boy of the people Meredith lives with.

Sunday morning... with the 2 Kendra's. LOVE these girls!

Sunday church was really good. We sang at a home afterwards, ate dinner, and then headed back. It was a wonderful weekend... I want to go back again soon because I love the girls out there! Oh, and just the church in general. :)