Ovations

This past weekend was a busy one for us! We are trying to get our basement finished so we can create our nursery. Our extra bedroom upstairs has a spare bed in it and other odd and end stuff, and we don't really have a place to put it until the basement is finished. Once our basement is finished we'll have a storage room, extra bedroom, another full bath, an office/library area, and another big open family room. It will be really nice and will add another 900 square foot of space!!

Sunday night Matt and Joe (the youth minister) were hosting "Ovations," a volunteer appreciation dinner/banquet at the church Sunday night. Matt alone has well over a 100 volunteers underneath of him, so they'd asked my mom to cater it. She and my sister came down Saturday to start cooking for it. My mom loves catering/cooking for people, as do I, so it was hard for me to lay on the couch and watch and not be able to help. I don't know how many times I was told to "go lay back down." But it was nice to sample all of the food!

For the main course she fixed smoked chicken, green beans, baked potatoes with a bar of toppings, three different salads, fresh fruit, and her famous light rolls. It was all yummy! She really had fun on the desserts, as her real passion is baking. We made a triple layered chocolate mousse cake, a four layered coconut cream dessert and a four layered chocolate cream dessert (both with homemade puddings!), our families cheesecake recipe that is like no other, and cherry squares (like pie) made with fresh cherries!

Mom made the desserts after we got home from early service on Sunday so my lunch turned into sampling them all!

Everyone loved the dinner, they don't get food where everything is made from scratch very often. Plus, I think the volunteers really felt appreciated for what they do each Sunday. Matt and Joe also shared their vision for the future of their ministries and I think it was really inspiring and encouraging to everyone.

Its always nice to be appreciated and to receive an ovation!