Football and Food. . . Always go Together . . .

Enjoyed sometime with family on Sunday with lots of appetizers and what else but, football.  I have not entertained like that since we had the boys and I have to say it was kind of nice.  I made several different appetizers and we enjoyed eating and watching the games.  The hubbs and I used to do that quite often with friends and family  before the boys came along and maybe even right after they were born.   The boys got older and were involved in sports and Church and we never seemed to have the time to "entertain" like we did before the kids.
I remember one time in particular before we were even married that I fixed a big pot of my infamous chili and appetizers for an afternoon of football.  We had all the hubbs friends over to eat and watch the games and it was a lot of fun.  It snowed that day and after eating all that chili they went out to go sledding.  I skipped the sledding that day. 
Here is what we had on Sunday for our little get together:

Deviled eggs with a little horseradish and sour cream, scrabble (chex mix), cream cheese with red pepper jelly and crackers, and a bean dip called Texas Trash that I found on Pinterest, along with olives,  and last but not least chicken soft tacos.

Rules to Live By. . .

I must share the sermon from Children's Church yesterday.  I use the website Sermons 4 Kids these are set up with a story and activities for the kids and coloring pages that follow the sermon.   This particular story was taken from John 13:34-35.  This story told of the rules for living, "the Golden Rules for Living."   If we all followed these little rules we would all be so much better off.

If you open it     close it
If you turn it on          turn it off
If you unlock it          lock it
If you move it            put it back
If it belongs to someone else      get permission to use it
If you don't know how to operate it       leave it alone  (men should really pay attention to this one)
If you use it        take care of it
If you break it      admit it
If you can't fix it      call someone who can   (another one for the men)
If you mess it up      clean it up
If it is not your business, don't ask questions

The last one should be, if it is not your business stay out of it.  I think these are awesome and even the lesson said if we all followed these simple rules of life our world would be a much better place.   I love getting to work with our little ones in Church, I always learn something from them.
For my ethics class I had to write my rules to live by or my personal ethics that I followed.  This would have really come in handy for that paper.

Beautiful Weekend. . .

Another adventure in the little moments.  Spent Saturday watching Big T's team win two more games for their tremendous 9-1 season.  We also did a drive through to another small campus for Sprat.  We have to tour when we can.
Our youth were in charge of our Sunday worship yesterday.   They did an awesome job and our youth leaders are the best.  Sprat read the Liturgy and I must brag just a bit, he did wonderfully.   I was a very proud mama.  The younger kids took over as ushers and everyone sang.  Big T was an usher and he reluctantly sang too.    Yes, their Sunday outfits are their own hand made tie dye shirts.  They made these after the grave stone cleaning on Good Friday.
I spent this morning with Big T at the dentist, he had to have a tooth pulled.  Not a happy time at our house.  He did well though, he took it like a trooper.   Milkshakes and no school, poor fella.  He is trying to milk (no pun intended) this tooth for one more day of no school.  

Youth Sunday. . .

Yesterday was youth Sunday.  Our youth took over the service and did a wonderful job.  We have some very talented young people in our Church.  We are also blessed with some very talented adults to lead them. They sang, read scripture and had some of the parents come up and participate in a melodrama   The parents did not know they were going to be called on so that was very entertaining.  They did a great job though.  Big T does not like to sing in front of people, he is more of a behind the scenes kinda guy.  So he and a couple others were in charge of taking up the offering.  Big T also took pictures.  Sprat, on the other hand, is not so shy.  He read scripture and sang with the Grateful Choir.  They always make me a little teary to hear them sing.  I think the congregation enjoyed the service, I know I did.  I am so proud of those kids, they did such a good job leading the service.