AHG Fundraiser Tea

 From Magan's Facebook Post...

"Last weekend we had the most beautiful tea party with our American Heritage Girls troop!  Anabelle and her friend Aviana, alongside their moms, were in charge of organizing and planning the event for their level award.  Belle and Avi emceed the event too.  All our table decorators out did themselves!!!  We had one that was 6 ft tall and one center piece that was spinning.   

Our oldest girls served the tables and the mom’s worked behind the scenes.  It was our first time doing a tea and it sold out! We decorated a Cinderella’s castle table and a Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin table, complete with rose flavored Turkish delight.  Planning the table decorations with my girls was also an unexpected fun time. Belle remembered every single thing about her castle and had everything packed up for safe keeping, it was her favorite when she was little and so much fun to pull out with her.  We won 3rd place for our Castle table and all the little girls with curls visiting our table to see it one more time was the best part.  So extremely proud of our girls for serving so well and learning how to do something new.  Also thankful for everyone who supported our event!"

Davis and I had to help with setup and takedown, and I was really impressed at all the girls hard work, and all of the teams of ladies decorating.   I still can't quite understand the draw of this, but these little girls and the ladies were all smiles.   Belle made like 150 mini cupcakes and iced them all for this event.  And front what I heard, these girls had one of the best fundraisers they have ever had, and everyone had a good time with it.   So it looks like this is the first of many.   And it was super sweet that so many of the ladies of our congregation were here to support these girls.   

And the pictures at the end were of a crazy messy kitchen back at the house.   It was Belle's dish day, but I quickly told everyone that all hands were on deck.   Except for Magan, she passed out on the couch, but I washed, Belle rinsed, and Ruby dried trying to keep us a place to put all these dishes when we were done.   This is probably one of a handful of times I have ever even seen my wedding china.   

Another pass through October...

We finally got some time this month to get down to Prattville for Magan to get some pictures of the newly weds in their first city.   And sure enough, as soon as we meet them downtown near the river, the rain starts coming down.   So we camped out under a gazebo, and almost all of us were looking at our phones seeing if we would get a break in the weather.   And luckily, we had a short break, where Magan captured some images down by the river, then up on main street.  I took some pictures of Magan taking pictures, and got a pic with Mr. Pratt and the girls.   Afterwards we ate some amazing pizza at Fox's, where Ruby reminded us that they don't serve water, have to get water bottles.   A perfect night of pictures, pizza, and Prattville.

Me and the girls made it to the newest Angel Studios release with our 2 free guild tickets.   And overall, it was a really good movie.   Even if the people asked Magan "But Why?" when she showed them the ticket for this theater.   A little cheesy at times, but Tommy Lee Jones was a good marshall, and our main family was a good example of loving your enemies...UNTIL they WERE NOT!   It was like New Testament love for 95% of the movie, then in the last 5 minutes, we went full scale Old Testament.  We walked out of what was probably supposed to be a very dramatic ending, and all 4 of us could not stop laughing.   I can still see that sweet girl raise a hammer, and we thought "ok...we like the self defense", but then up came the stake in the other hand...Wow, that escalated quickly from the prayer knees.   

Magan and Belle told a funny story of going in one of the clothes stores in Alabaster, and loading up so many clothes, that Belle just found a clothes rollie cart to put them all on, then when they got all of those clothes to the fitting room, they found out the store closed in 5 minutes.   Magan has this thing with time, well, she really just doesn't know how it works often.  But she told them to hold the front desk open, she still had a return also.   

We drove over to Sumiton to help Uncle Butch celebrate his 80th birthday.   And it was a big surprise to him, as he walked in and got a little teared up with all the family there.   And you want to hear another surprise, a lady walked over to me and asked "Are you Scott?"   When I said yes, she said,  "They want you to say the prayer".   Which is not a problem...but...I really don't know Uncle Butch that much.   I just went with it, and I think it went well.   Davis loved the event getting to talk to one other cousin who is a car enthusiast, and another cousin (Butch's son) that owns and flies two planes.   We had the event at the golf course where Butch works at, and he shared that he shot a 77 on the course a few weeks before.   And while I have met and spoken with many of the Henson folks over about a 30 year span, besides Judy...Butch has always been my favorite. 

What else happened this month?   Cole Manglaris baptism...Some AHG meetings and AHG service days...A new baby Sartin...Keeping up with Sam and Noel through texts (a trip to the fair to ride the zipper, and a trip up to Virginia)...The Chelsea Choir Fall concert where Belle sang her solo that will be a part of the Show Choir this year.   She sings the opening of "Bridge over Troubled Water", and I can't wait for others to hear it....Trumbauer practice where kids perform pieces of theater shows competing across the state.  Belle had a song from "The Notebook", but due to some sickness, had to skip that one, but she was still able to be in the performance from "The Little Mermaid" with some other friends...And a small group meeting at our house, the first with this new group.