Showing posts with label Shower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shower. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

recent happenings......

Sorry, I don't have any pictures for this post....I'm afraid I've been very negligent in that respect....

This last week has been very fun! Wednesday night, I spend a fun evening with my sisters during men's meeting, and got caught up on all the 'goings on' on the farm since I've been gone. And then I drove the truck home from the Davis'....that was a little scary, but Samuel has been very patient teaching me to drive stick...I am soooo blessed to have him for a husband!!!!!! 

Friday, Sam picked me up straight after work, we ate supper in the car(pizza!) and headed to Trenton for family night at the 'big' Schatte's house!!! which means a fun evening of volleyball, ice cream and a movie! :D We actually stayed the night, because Sam had to replace 3 parts on the truck, and there's a rule at the apartment that you can't work on cars in the parking lot, even though we have seen other people do it...besides, the tools were all at Dad and Mom's, and I had boatloads of fun spending the day with the girls!!! :D

Sunday was my first time to bring food to a Meal Sunday, which was kinda fun! :) and after church, we went over to Daddy & Mommy Hale's and visited and held Bobby, and caught up!!!
Monday has turned into our shopping day, so after supper, we headed out to Aldi's and WalMart, which are only a few blocks from our apartment! :) 

Tuesday, Esther, Faith and Liz came and spent the afternoon with me, and I showed them all the 'perks' of the apartment complex...which isn't very much, but it's nice to get out and walk around! :) Then, we had supper together, and headed out to GFA prayer meeting, which I always enjoy immensely! :D Uncle Fred gave the devotional, and his are always good in a prick-ish sort of way....last night he talked about resisting God's calling in your life, and how important it is to listen to the Holy Spirit's promptings....which was really neat, because that was one of Mr. Beeman's points in his sermon on Sunday! :)

I'll leave you with a few verses that have been going through my head this morning, as I've been pondering both Mr. B's and Uncle Fred's messages:

Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them,
that should make up the hedge,
and stand in the gap before me for the land,
that I should not destroy it:
but I found none.

Psalm 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,
to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them .


Isaiah 6:8
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?
Then said I, Here am I;
send me.



Hope everyone has a very happy Wednesday!!!
Love and blessings,
Esther

Monday, February 4, 2013

Wedding Shower.......

.....Benner(and Schatte) Style....


Bekah and Steven were very sweet and organized the shower for us last Saturday!!!!!

We chose not to do a 'traditional' bridal shower, where just the girls in the family are invited, instead, we encouraged whole families to come and enjoy the fellowship! :)


Mr. and Mrs. Benner, our sweet Host and Hostess......


....and let's not forget the wee little Benner!!! ;)


ummm....us!!!! ;)



putting cookies on platters
Esther Rose, Liz, Esther Grace, Mom, Rachel and Bekah





As people got there, we visited, and people were asked to write advice for the Newlyweds using that had to start with the letters in 'NEWLYWEDS' can't wait to read all of them!!! :)



It was soooo good to see Catherine, my dear friend since we were both 6!!! 



visiting with Mrs. Wesson



Dad Schatte, Mr. Pinckle, Daddy and David visting



sweet fellowship






Darling Faith!!!



Us visiting with Cat and Andrew


People were sooo generous, and we are soooooo very grateful for you all!!!!!!





Caleb....



I have no idea why I gave Peter this look.....




Alden, Jonathan and Troy Hinds



Everyone in this picture, we are both so very blessed to have in our lives!!! 



Johanna enjoying Hannah's lemon bars....they were scrumptious!!!



Mingling and being the center of attention is defiantly out of both of our comfort zones....



Daddy and Mr. Pennington visiting




David and his camera



David and Samuel


girls chatting in the kitchen



Bobby, my darling little man....he wasn't quite so sure what to do with so many people, poor fellow!



Johnny and Andrew arm-wrestling




Steven called everyone to order, and said that the Dad's had some blessing for Us









Then they opened it up if anyone else wanted to give blessings/advice/encouragements for us...







About halfway through, I starting thinking, I'm not going to remember all this, but Steven read my mind, and wrote them all down for us!!! Thank you, Steven!!!!!





....Praying....



It was all very sweet and encouraging, but I was very thankful to sit down afterwards! :)



visiting afterwards...this isn't the best picture, but Sam and I had a really good chat with Jeremy and AnnMarie, and this is the only pic that got taken of us....



And yes, the football managed to make an appearance.... ;)



.....more visiting.....




Little David.... :)



and, another picture of my adorable nephew.... ;)



Dad talking to Bobby



Caleb and Elijah




the cute banner that the girls made! they let me keep it, and I think it will go nicely in our apartment somewhere!!! 



David always has some admirers hanging around....







Nathaniel, Andrew, Samuel and Samuel 




Adrienne, Mrs. Beeman and Mrs. McKee visiting with Kelli, who is back from Taiwan for a short visit back home!!!



Grandma finally got a chance to hold Bobby! :)




We took all the gifts back to the Hale's house, the Schattes and Benners came over, and we opened the gifts and had boatloads of fun!!! :)







Wow.
We are sooo blessed to have such generous friends!
Y'all are and have been a huge blessing to us!!!!!!! 


Sorting and packing up the gifts and goodies....I think we are stocked on coffee filters till our 25th anniversary!!! ;P A few months ago, I had the weirdest dream that Sam and I had just gotten back from our honeymoon, and had opened wedding gifts, and we had been given like 10 coffee makers!!! And for some crazy reason we like HAD to make coffee that night...only one problem, we didn't have any coffee filters!!! And, as it is in dreams, it was like the worst thing that could have ever happened, and we were freaking out!!!!!! So, my dear sister-in-laws-to-be gave me a package of coffee filters.....EACH!!!!!!!!!! ;) I love you girls!!!!! <3 <3 <3



(Some of these pictures were "stolen" from the Schatte's Blog)