"The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day...
AND THEN
Something went BUMP!
How that bump made us jump!...
These Things will not bite you.
They want to have fun..."
Oh how I wish Thing 1, Thing 2, Thing 3, and Thing 4
Would come over to play!

Sadly, Picasa is having a bad night and all my pictures won't get on the blog.
I think you get the idea from this collage how much fun I had making pies with filling from EZPZ pies.
Letha

#30!
I am so excited to talk about my cooking experiment from today.
As you can see by Heidi and Doug's expressions I think it went pretty well.
Let me start from the beginning...

I ordered Apple Pie Filling from EZPZ Pies
I was so excited to get them in the mail this week, because
"The desire of EZPZ Pies is to be used by God to support orphan care and adoptive families through the sale of delicious products!" Please go visit their website and blog. I met this family while living in North Carolina and am so excited to help support this effort.

So one jar of EZPZ pie filling fills one deep dish pie crust, but I wanted to get creative so I decided to go with a bunch of mini pies! I love cupcakes and figured the concept would apply to pie as well as it does to cake. I was bit worried but they turned out fabulous. They do crumble a bit coming out of the cupcake pan so I might buy the fancy mini foil pie things next time but then also I think if I was more patient and waited till they were fully cooled it would have been better. Hope you enjoy the pics as much as I enjoyed the baking.

#29 Precious New Niece
Laleh Eve DeLaughter

May 18, 2011

#28 - I almost forgot to write about SPECKA
I do believe sometime in February on this long list of somethings new I mentioned starting to go to a women's Bible Study. At first I felt greatly out of place, looking over my shoulder to be directed to the nursery, that's where I have always been placed in settings such as this. But what a blessing that study was and the women I met during that study continue to bless me. To continue, because of my participation in that study and deepened relationships and other factors Jan asked me to help her with another smaller study using SPECKA - How excited am I still? VERY! So the last few weeks on Tuesday mornings you could find me "teaching/leading/facilitating" (don't really know what word to put there) a women's Bible Study. I still can't believe it! I love it! I feel protective over these women just like I would over the babies in the nursery. I love that the group is small and I can pray for them each by name during the week. I hope they are learning even a fraction of what I have been learning from them! And just in cause you are wondering - SPECKA stands for
S - Sin to confess
P - Promise to claim
E- Example to follow (or not to follow)
C - Command to Obey
K - Knowledge to gain about God and God's Kingdom
A - Application in General and Application to my life this week/today

Somethings to be grateful for...
I can't believe May is halfway over!
I am not keeping up well with time, but I am enjoying this season in my life.
A few new things I have been up to
#25 - I went back to Wake Forest for a visit!
I loved every moment of visiting with friends, being a part of Mary Pat's baby shower, and finally officially meeting Judah Crane (who ranks among the cutest babies ever, I do believe his only competition would be Sahara, Wesley, Bria, Isaiah, Tirza and Selah to name them all)

#26 - I made the poster and passed out about 60 baby bottles at Church to help collect change from Mother's Day until Father's Day for the local Caring Pregnancy Center where I volunteer my time every Wednesday. I was and still am very excited about the positive response to this fundraiser!
#27 - I am watching Spring finally arrive and stay put here in Washington. The flower outside my front window is blooming, the grass is growing like weeds. I finally had a sunny day and was able to mow the yard on Friday!
So life continues to give me new adventures to celebrate.