Christmas Tea 2010

 The girlies usually go with me to the Annual Ladies Christmas Tea and this was no exception.  They don't actually go to the Tea, they go to childcare, but they enjoy going to the "ladies event" all the same.

 Mark helped serve and Lauren sat at our table.

 There was a full house with all 200 tickets sold.

 This is our table from the back side at the end of the tea.

 Suzanne & Coylene

 Lauren, Aunt Wee, Me

 A placed was saved at our table in memory of Momma.

 Daddy was there helping anywhere he was needed - 

in the nursery, in the kitchen, and

I think I saw him video taping the speaker.

My other family was at Grana's table.

It was lovely, as usual.

Christmas Tea

This morning was the annual Ladies' Christmas Tea at Grandma's church. Aunt Wee did a great job making the table look beautiful this year!

We shared our table with some life-long friends.

My other family was at another table.

Rebekah and her cousin Mason played in the nursery while us Moms had a good time.

I'll have to keep trying this Christmas to get some good pictures of them together.

Christmas Tea

Saturday was the annual Ladies Christmas Tea at Grandma's church. This was my second year to attend & I decorated a table again:

We were very colorful, using my Fiesta dishes and Christmas balls as the centerpiece. It was very simple, but I thought it turned out beautiful.

I sat at our table with Grandma & Aunt Wee, while the table next door seated Grana, MawMaw, Aunt Erin, Suzanne, Jan, Kristi & Marlene. I completely forgot to take pictures at the tea this year! To see us at last year's tea, click here. I did take some pictures of the tables when we were up there decorating the night before. They're on my flickr.

500!!! and the Tea

This is my 500th post!

I need to have some type of hooplah to celebrate, but I couldn't think of anything. Too much cookies & Tea going on this week, I guess. But the best thing of all, my best friend is coming to visit tomorrow!!! And boy do I need some time with my best friend! That will be my hooplah! Watch for pictures to be posted on Monday or Tuesday.

Want to take a little trip down memory lane to see just where this blog started? Click here to see our very first blogged pictures of David and the Christmas season two years ago! Just look how little he was!

Now on to today! It was the Ladies Christmas Tea at Grandma's church. Here I am with my Momma (aka Grandma), and my Sister-in-Law. Don't we look festive?! Look how shiny Lynne is!!!

Ladies getting together at a Baptist church = good food! Check out that cheesecake! Mmmm... it was wonderful! The food courses were served on clear plastic plates, sat upon our pretty place settings at each table. Here, you can see Grandmama's beautiful china showing behind the cheesecake. Click on yesterday's picture to see the entire table setting.

The fellowship hall was filled to capacity. I think I heard there were around 200 ladies there from the community, relatives (sisters, daughters, mothers, aunts, etc) , and a few ladies who'd moved off came back for the Tea to visit old friends. Marci Hatfield was the speaker.

Here I am with Dad's side of the family. I will list them in relation to Elizabeth, starting on the bottom row: Great Grandma Grana, Great Aunt Marlene, Future Cousin Suzanne, MawMaw. And on the back row: Me, Elizabeth, Cousin Rachel, and Great Aunt Jan. I think Rachel & Suzanne will be 2nd cousins to Elizabeth. Did I get that right? So from Grana to Elizabeth, that's 4 generations! Suzanne, Jan & I are married in.

We even had one more set of family there that I failed to get a picture of: Marie, Joyce & Emily. I think it was a very enjoyable day for everyone there. David really had fun in the nursery, too!

Peek-a-Boo & Christmas Tea

Grandma signed me (Mom) up to decorate a table for her church's Ladies Christmas Tea. Today was set-up day. I used Grandmama's china for the place settings. Maybe we'll get some pictures to post tomorrow from the Tea.