OUR FIRST TEA PARTY!!!!!

Saturday afternoon, Elyse and I had our first tea party. Our new church puts pictures up of each child from our church. Adults take their picture home and pray for them until Easter. It is up to the adult, but they can send letters, emails, gifts or have them over for lunch, etc. Ilene chose Elyse and invited us over for tea. She also invited another mother and daughter, plus her sister (who is the Pastor's wife). That makes six of us at the tea.

Starting at the left, is Emma (Elyse's friend that is one month older than her), Elyse, Ilene (Elyse's prayer person), Pamela (Emma's mother and my new friend) and yours truly. Susan, the Pastor's wife, is our photographer.

The table setting and some of the food we ate. Each of the three courses was met with a different kind of hot tea. We also had ice tea in the tall glasses with raspberries in the cup. Ilene made five different finger sandwiches. They were amazing. The parfait cup had fresh raspberries, blackberries, a strawberry and topping (sour cream, honey and whipped cream). We used Susan's tea collection. One of them was from England. Our first course was scones. Ilene had two homemade jellies to go on them, whipped cream and lemon curd. All to die for. I am going to make the lemon curd for us soon. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Here is the dessert I tried to describe in my email. It was a homemade cupcake, with icing made to look like flower petals, with a bee on top. The bee was a peanut M & M, the brown stripes were tootsie rolls rolled like a snake and wrapped around the M & M, and the wings of the bee were rolled out gum drops and cut out in the shape of wings.

It was a great time. We happened to look at the clock once and it was 8:00 - that means we were there four hours and it seemed like minutes.

I forgot to mention the rose flower in the little white cup. It is actually soap. You take one petal and wash your hands with it. It smells like a real rose.

Zachary has a prayer partner too, but we don't know who it is because they haven't contacted us yet. But, at least he is getting prayed for.

Pastor & Susan are coming over for lunch on Thursday. Dad wants to know how we can serve in this church. They will tell us where we are needed on Thursday.