Ladies Day 2014: Bee Faithful Followers

Today was our 9th Annual Ladies Day in Blossom.  It is a day I always look forward too.  Our theme this year was "Bee Faithful Followers."  April Boles from Honey Grove, TX, brought the messages and did an outstanding job.  We had 118 in attendance from 21 different congregations.  

I thought the decorations turned out SO CUTE!!!

 The favors were cute little bottles of Honey

This cute little wild child fit right in with the decorations.  She was really sweet reading a book to her new friend.

Two of my favorite ladies!!

 Lunch was a baked potato with all the fixings, salad and pie (banana caramel, lemon and strawberry)

A big thank you to all the ladies who together made this an awesome day! 

L2L Awards Banquet

Lanny and Amy had an awards banquet to recognize all the hard work our youth have done over the past year.  They also treated the younger kids (who aren't old enough to participate) with their own trophies. It is so good for the younger kids to go and watch the older kids and learn from them. The younger kids love it!

There were so many trophies.  Our kids always do well.  They are so blessed to have Lanny and Amy to work with them.

 Unfortunately, my little friend never took a nap on Sunday and just couldn't make it through the service.  I tried waking her up but was growled out.  It was best for everyone for her to go back to sleep.

Avery really was excited when she woke up the next morning and saw her trophy and treat bag! :)

L2L 2014

This year Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes was very different for us.  It was the first time, in 11 or12 years, that we have not had a child participate.  L2L, and LTC (which the kids participated thru Michael's senior year) is for grades 3rd thru 12th.  We still have a few years before Avery is able to compete.  So the weekend was bittersweet.  I wish that our kids would have been their with us, but at the same time I was not a nervous wreck trying to make sure that they were dressed, prepared and on time for each of their events.

This year L2L fell after the April 15th deadline.  So that meant I was able to take off the entire day and we were not so rushed.  We left Friday morning and arrived around 11 am.

 The Gaylord Texas has an awesome atmosphere.  The kids loved watching the trains and looking at the fish.  The big kids were so good with the little kids.

This girl finally got a Snap Chat account.  Which of course, required a selfie.

And now she is one of my best snappers.  Just look at her aweseome first snap :)

Friday afternoon the younger kids did scripture reading.  Avery and I went to watch Aubree and Autumn read their scriptures.  They did GREAT!

 Avery and Jack had a blast listening to the scripture readers...

I took the sleepy heads to the room with me to get their nap out.  Jack woke up before Avery.  So we tried to play quietly until she woke up.  He requested a picture.

Friday evening most of our gang ( around 35) went to the Cheesecake Factory in Southlake to eat dinner.

 I hope I'm not in trouble for posting these snaps, but I LOVE these people!

Friday night was the awards for the year round events.  The Blossom kids racked up just like always! :)

 And this banner won 1st place!!!

 Cade made a good horse.

Saturday morning was the speech competition. We headed over to support our kids.  It was really weird not having one competing.

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Here are some sharp dressed boys!

We ate lunch at the Mexican restaurant in the hotel

Saturday night was the awards for the events that took place on Friday and Saturday.  The girls won 3rd place for scrapbook.

I am SO PROUD of ALL these kids!

 We have sort of made it a tradition to stop and get ice cream on the way back to the room.

The Easter bunny visited our room sometime during the night

We got dressed and went to worship with the L2L group.  Several of the young men who had competed in speech brought the message and several young men led the song service.

 I couldn't get this little girl to cooperate for pictures.  This is the best I got...

 We stopped at Victor's Italian restaurant in Bonham on our way home Sunday.  The food was great!

 I will end with several snaps I got on my way home on Sunday :)