Tea Party

Lori led our meeting tonight where we learned about hosting a proper tea party.  The table was beautifully set when we all arrived with all sorts of scrumptious looking treats to tempt us all. 

Waiting for the rest of the guests to arrive

There were place cards laid out for each girl as well as a beautiful ornament that they will be able to keep to remember this special time in their lives.

The girls enjoyed their tea party, sampling all the different food and chatting. 

Giving thanks.

Lori serving tea

While the girls ate and chatted, the moms were busy having their own tea party. 

 

A little too much of a good thing! 

After the girls ate and drank their tea, Lori had a game prepared for the girls to get to know each other better. 

Singing our hymn for the month

Lori leading the girls in their devotion.  We’re continuing on with Patience.

Friends. 

The girls all had a wonderful time.  Thank you Lori and Alexandra for hosting this month and teaching us a little about tea parties! 

Saying Goodbye – serious pose

Saying goodbye – natural pose

Teaching

Our meeting tonight was on teaching.  The girls came prepared to tell the group their favorite verse and why as well as their favorite Proverb with a visual to explain the Proverb. 

Terri led our meeting tonight and opened with our prayer, verse, goal and purpose.  Then she read some more from our book on Patience (is everyone practicing what we’re learning?  ).

Once the opening was over the girls began their presentations.  I loved seeing their creativity.

After the verse and Proverb demonstrations, the girls were divided into two groups to learn and act out two parables. 

The Prodigal Son Cast

The Good Samaritan Cast

Explaining their parts – Prodigal Son

The father is so happy to see his son return!

Practicing – The Good Samaritan

The Good Samaritan helping

It was another fun night.  Thanks girls for your efforts and thanks Terri for working so hard to put it all together.

Dough Making

For our "extra" meeting this month we made Christmas cookie dough to freeze away for the holidays. YUM.

We made four different doughs, doubling the recipe, if needed, to make sure every family received enough dough for 1 dozen cookies of each type.  All of our dough is now safely frozen away waiting for Christmas time to come around.

It was a fun day and a really enjoyable way to make Christmas dough.  I’d love to have all the helpers come back over and make even more dough to squirrel away. 

Foreign Language

Originally we were scheduled to play croquet tonight.  However, the lack of light and hard ground necessitated a quick change for our badge work.  I had the girls come prepared to talk about a foreign language of their choice.  It was fun listening to them as they attempted to say several phrases and recite John 3;16 in their chosen language.

We opened  our evening going through our verse, purpose, goal and prayer.  We then sang our hymn for the month, Be Thou My Vision.  It was so sweet listening to the girls singing the hymn.  We then did a brief devotional on Patience.  We’ll be working through the Keepers character study book on Patience.  Each week we’ll do a little more in the book until we’re through.  By then we should all have patience in every situation, right??? 

Spanish

Talking about the Country Ecuador

Italian Gals

Talking about Italy

More information about Italy

Norwegian
talking about Norway of course

Swahili
talking about Tanzania

German
talking about Germany

After the girls presentations we enjoyed some pumpkin fudge and running around the dark yard. 

We’re looking forward to seeing you all in a couple of weeks for Christmas cookie dough making!