Friday, December 31, 2010

Dinner Party!

I was so excited to try our families special ronies and sauce this week since my mom gave me a new pot for Christmas to make it in! Since it takes all day to make, I decided to make a fun dinner party out of it! I never have time to do these things, so I was really excited to have fun with it! My mom is an amazing cook and host and I want to get some good practice in so I can be just like her and provide and serve for my family and friends.
Here was my table and little encouragement cards that I made for each guest.
The sauce!! Soo good!! It cooked all day and made our apartment smell amazing!
My beautiful guests!

My sister even came and joined us!
Twinkie friends!


It was a really enjoyable evening topped off with a great new cheescake I made as well! I love these girls and so many more that attend our church and was happy it all went well!
I hope we get to do it again soon!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Happy Birthday Ashley!

Happy, Happy Birthday to our dear sister Ashley!!


We are so sad that we could not be with you and your family to celebrate your birthday and Christmas, but we still wanted you to know how much we love you!


You are an amazing mother and it has been so neat watching you raise your beautiful boys. I (Andrea) learned so much from you this summer and I pray that a time will come in the future that we can raise our families together.
Love ya sis! Happy Birthday!! Miss ya a ton and wish we could be celebrating with ya! But I hope you got my message and I am really thankful for you! God really blessed me with a great big sis who always cared for me and taught me what it looked like to live out my faith in Christ! To that I thank you always!! Hope all is well with the fam! See ya soon, hopefully!

We always enjoy our times with just the 4 of us. Though these times and far and few these days, we pray the Lord's will on all our future ministries and we would be thrilled if He lead us to the same place someday!!

Your faithfulness as an older sister I've never had has meant more to me than you know. This is probably one of the biggest reasons I miss you so much. This is a selfish thought but you know that we wouldn't want you guys to be doing anything other than what you are doing now! But i do always look forward to our times together. I will never forget those time we had lunch at CBU and when you had me over for dinner so that you could get to know me more when Brandon and I were just dating. Your intentionality showed what a great sister you were (and are :)) and I am thankful for that time that drew us closer together. Thank you!

Now that Brandon will have the summer off we are praying that it will work out to come and spend time with you and your family this summer!

We hope you had a great day!


Love you!!


Brandon and Andrea