Chris and I are taking a group of 25 to the Dream Center in LA for a missions trip.  We'll be gone all week, so make sure you are checking out our trip blog:

I don't know if I totally buy this, since I always hear that Isaiah looks more like Chris and Leah looks more like me. I just think the kids look like each other!

My daughter is a girlie-girl. Her chief loves in life are her purse, her babies, her shoes, and food. But today she took it to a new level. She put on her first tea party for her babies. On my honor, I did not instigate it in any way.

Actually it was a cereal party. She put two of her play bowls on the floor and placed pieces if cereal in each one. Then she brought over two of her babies and placed one by each bowl. She had another cereal party later in the evening, this time using cups. Chester really wanted to join the party, but he wasn't welcome.

Isaiah's fascination in life is being rough and being loud, so one of his favorite things to play is pirates. The couch is the good boat and the recliner is the little boat, so Pirate Isaiah fights with Pirate Daddy for the good boat. Argh!

We had our annual Memorial Day church picnic today! I'm not a big out-doors kind of girl, so I kind of avoid picnics in general, because obviously you have to be outside to participate. However, our church picnics are held at a place with an air conditioned, fully functional restroomed building. So I can stay inside, avoiding sunburn, and eat all of the awesome food.

Speaking of which, I LOVE potlucks. Well, really I love all food, but especially when everyone prepares their best dish and brings it to share. My favorites today were a spicy cheese pasta and a fabulous lemon-pudding-cake-blackberry thing. I was so stuffed, but oh so happy!

Other nice things... The weather was kind of cloudy so no one got burned, even if they went outside. Isaiah is finally old enough that he can run off and play with his friends without me worrying that he'll leave the park. And Leah is so cute that everyone in the church is happy to carry her around, so I don't have to worry too much about her either.


We ended the day with a baptism service in the lake. Our whole group joined hands at the waters edge for prayer and my pastor's wife snagged a couple of sun bathers to join us. Then the baptizers and the baptizees stepped into the water. Chris got to baptize one of our youth and I'm super proud of her. Probably the most exciting part is that a couple friends of our church people came to the picnic and ended up deciding to get baptized at the last minute!

These pictures are of the kids in the car on the way and later playing at the picnic:

So, like I said in my last blog, Chris got to lead worship on a live TV show last Thursday night.  The team sounded great and it went really smooth.  The TV people said they wanted them to come back sometime.  And one of the crew told Chris, "Man, that was TOUGH!"  I think he meant it like it was wicked or hard core, since he said it with a huge smile!

A little secret?  My husband wore makeup!  Granted, it was stage makeup, but still!  :-D

If you want to see Chris leading worship on TV, he finally posted it on his blog, so click here to watch!