Prayer Shawl Ministry Annual Spring Tea

Last weekend we had our annual Prayer Shawl Ministry spring tea.  Here are some of my friends that attended.  We had LOTS of goodies to eat with our tea.

We each brought a cup and saucer and then we had an "exchange" when we were done.  I actually picked a mug (not shown in this picture) because I don't really drink hot tea at home, but I do drink coffee and hot chocolate.  There were a lot of pretty cups to pick from.

New Office

We FINALLY got in all the art work we ordered or that we were waiting on the artist to finish designing for us.  So here's a tour, this is looking in the front door at my desk.

 

These are original pieces that a "potter" made in OKC for us.  He even came down and hung them on the wall for us.

 

A view as you come in the back door (private entrance) into our kitchen area.

More of the reception area by desk.

 

The open area looking toward the kitchen/back door.

 

What my view is from my desk.

 

Our conference room.

 

 

Conference rom.

 

Our extra office.

File room.

Another shot of the extra office.

Looking at our sign when it's lit up at night.

 

Art work in the open area.

Easter Weekend

Last night, all six of us (Kristen and Pat, Kaitlyn and Michael, and Joe and I) went to a local landmark, The Mont and sat on the patio and had swirls (margarita and sangria mixed in a swirl fashion - The Mont's signature drink).  It was such a beautiful day yesterday - it got up into the 80's.

 

We had dinner while sitting out there hobnobbing with the local Normanites.  Most of the students went home for Easter so it wasn't as crowded as usual.  In the middle of the night we had a really bad hailstorm/thunderstorm.  We saved one of the hailstones in the freezer.  It was about ping-pong ball sized.

 

Here some of the damage it did (beside ruining all of our cars).  The magnolia tree got torn up pretty bad and there were lots of leaves all over the front yard.

Our Pine Tree on the west side of our house lost lots of pine needles on the ground.  It was pretty scary.  Our golden retriever is afraid of the storms so she got OUT of the doghouse and ran to the back door getting pounded by the hailstones. She was pretty shooken up by the time we let her inside the garage.

Prayer Shawl Update

I started a prayer shawl last summer and then got busy this fall with tailgating.  Then I made several of the "ruffled" scarves during the Christmas season.  I feel like this shawl has taken FOREVER to make.  During this Lenten season, when we meet every week, I've been busy with my Disciple class, and I joined a circle, so I haven't spent as much time knitting as I usually do.  I finally finished this shawl last week and will turn it in tomorrow night.

 

Our group will have our spring "Tea" next weekend and this year we are going to have a teacup exchange.  I scoured some of the antique malls around Norman and found this one last weekend (for half price).  I liked it so I purchased it.

 

I also found this 50's hamburger press.  I don't remember who had one in our family -- if it was Aunt Reba, or Granny, or Mama but I had to buy it.  I have roosters in my kitchen and it brought back good memories (it was in perfect shape too).

Weight Watchers

I've been trying really hard the past few weeks to make some headway on my weight.  I've been working out 5-6 days a week doing Zumba, Zumba gold, walking, working with weights, lots of abs work, and tracking everything by its WW points value.  This morning I made a new recipe I found on Pinterest.  I entered it into the recipe builder on WW and found out it's 6 points plus.  It's baked oatmeal and it's VERY good.  Joe and the girls liked it too.  If you eat it right out of the oven it has more of an oatmeal feel to it, but if you wait and let it set up, you can put it in the refrigerator then cut pieces during the week and put it in the microwave to warm it up and it's more like a "bar".  It has bananas, blueberries, organic rolled oats, lite vanilla soy milk, cinnamon, egg and chopped walnuts.  It's diabetic-friendly too, so Joe can eat it also.

 

This picture was made last week, but I've dropped 3 more pounds since then.  I've reached my 10% goal (meaning I've dropped 16 pounds since I started 2-1/2 years ago). I'm always going to have my "hips" and probably my belly fat but I sure feel a lot better.

More Crown's Tea Pictures

For some reason when I transferred these two pictures from my iPad they didn't come across as cropped, even though they are cropped on my iPad.  Anyway, this is my "portrait" from the Crowns Tea, a couple of weeks ago.  I went to the library and they printed off a very nice black and white portrait for me to keep, which I have in a frame on my hearth.  This one I downloaded from the site.

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a candid group shot of the group of ladies I went with.  We had a great time.

 

 

 

Miranda Lambert & Dierks Bentley Concert

Friday night, Joe and I had a date and went to dinner then a concert at his building.  Here's the NBA team logo on the floor of the grand entrance.

 

Waiting for the concert to start.

We were sitting 10 rows up from the floor on the side of the stage.  We had good seats!

 

Dierks Bentley

Miranda Lambert

 

Our cowboy boots. Joe got new square-toed, ostrich leather ones.  Strangely, my foot looks bigger than his. HA!