A BUSY WEEKEND WITH FRIENDS!! :)

About a week ago one of my friends Rachel and I talked about how we needed to do something for our good friends the Fords. They moved into our ward a few years back and are now moving on to Denver. We decided to try and pull together a little surprise potluck dinner for them, we had everyone meet at the church building while Rachel and David told them they were going out to dinner and to the church to do kareoke....When Rachel and David brought them into the church I think they were surprised! I wish I had my camera but I know others took some pictures so when I get copies of them I will post them here too. The only reason I have these 2 pictures from the party was because of my other friend Elizabeth had her nice camera and snapped them, I made a cake for dessert, I knew Jessie liked to ski and James liked to snowboard and they are moving to mountains, so I got the idea to try and make a skiing cake, I searched online for ideas but couldnt find any that didn't use fondant icining and I didn't have time for that, so I just randomly thought of this. Its not the best but its alright, I also didn't like the off brand cake mix I used..oh well..I tried :) This weekend has been totally insane but totally fun. Friday I had painted Daniels bedroom all morning, went to Justins parent teacher conference (which his teacher, speech and physical therapist said that Justin was their all time favorite student, that he was such a sweet/tender/caring kid) then Natilie had a soccer game and we had a potluck birthday party dinner for our good friends the Tora's, it was Patricks 34th birthday and the Nebelskis and Peters joined us (although in the pictures its minus the Peter's because she had to leave to go pick up her baby), we had lots of yummy food, Katee made the most delicious cakes, which Patrick must be gettin really old, there were so many candles that you couldnt see the cake lol ;) We had tons of fun! then Sat. Natilie had another soccer game, ran home baked this cake, went out to Daniels baseball game, left early to run home and made 50 homemade sweet n sour meatballs (which Beth and Katie brought meatballs too, it was totally unplanned but totally funny!) and then left to the farewell party, came home and put the kids to bed then ran back out to walmart to get a few food items, I was SO happy to get home and laid down in bed around midnight, it felt so good to get off of my feet! I am so thankful to know so many wonderful people and to have such awesome friends that bless my life! We will miss Jessie and James and their cute kids a ton but wish them well in Colorado and thanks to all of those you showed up for the party and brought food!