Going away party and service

Friday we hosted the McCombs going away party. The house was pretty clean, but we cleaned the floors and made sure everything was wiped down and sparkly. We also moved our paint station from the formal dining room where it’s been for about a year. Sometimes weird things happen and then you think about it and wonder why. Like keeping all your paint stuff in your formal DR. We also finished up painting in the basement and Matt made more progress on the bathroom down there. We made salsa, veggie tray and dip, and Addie made rice crispy treats. This is the one picture I took. 
Then Frankie took some. We had a bigger turnout than I thought we would, so that was fun. 

Frankie took my phone around and got lots of random shots. Like this one. 

Saturday was a busy day. Matt and I had it all mapped out because we had to keep close tabs on our timing. We got off to a late start because:

We wanted to be at the church to begin cleaning at 9, but didn’t make it till 10. Matt and Frankie had already bought the donuts though, so that was good. Our whole team was out of town, so we had a plan to clean the chapel and bathrooms, but when we got there we discovered -  to our delight and amazement - that the carpets had just been shampooed. That meant the whole building had been vacuumed. 🎉 Because of that we were able to do all the jobs. Tender mercy #1. 

From there we headed to the McCombs to help with moving stuff. Matt jumped right into caulking and I helped organize junk drawers. I really like organizing, I wish I could make a living out of it. The little girls found Joseph’s swing way down by the stream and played so happily. And we love our dear friends, so it was hard to leave them. But we had more people to serve! Tender mercy #2 (all of it from happy girls to dear friends). 

At 2 we headed to the Hatch’s new house. They are a new family and needed help unloading their pod. So many people were out of town and busy that we felt like we should really help them. On our way over to their house we realized we hadn’t fed the girls, so I dropped Matt off and picked the girls up some lunch. By the time I got back to their house, they were done unloading. More people had showed up to help and it went really smoothly. Tender mercy #3. 

We visited for a bit and came home to make the Hatchs dinner and make treats for Ken’s baptism at 7. We had just enough time to drop off dinner and got to the church nice and early, since Matt was conducting. Tender mercy #4. Anna took this cute picture and it was a wonderful evening. We are so happy for their family!

We helped clean up, put girls to bed and hid our 41 eggs, and fell asleep feeling successful and tired and happy. 

And some bonus pics. Frankie has been wanting to be a curly girl for awhile, so during spring break I added curl activator and plopped her hair overnight. 

She woke up  a crunchy curly girl!

We scrunched out the crunch, threw in some Bobby pins, and called it cute! She loved it!