Last week...

Last week was a good week.

The Thanksgiving Group (AKA: Denver/Altadena) was around.

There was a lot of construction, Thanksgiving food preparation, and relationship building.

It was a great week with great people and great fun.

There was a constant stream of laughter and good conversation.

It felt like half of my best friends were there & it was awesome.

Thanksgiving dinner was huge.

A bunch of people showed up from town & with that plus the CVE family and team we had around 250 mouths to feed.

Thank God the food lasted through it all & there were leftovers!

[5 loaves & 2 fishes, anyone?]

All in all...the week was fantastic. unforgettable.

Issac

Isaac is the newest addition to the CVE family.

He's around 3 months old & gets no shortage of attention. :]

Art class update.

'ello faithful blog stalkers!

It is I, Katie...the part time art teacher here at this beautiful establishment.

I just wanted to give you all an update about what has been happening in our class.

[Ok, I'll be normal...although it's not near as fun]

I think I already wrote this in a previous post, but I'm helping out with art class once a week at the school at CVE.

Our first project was to make & paint a bag or pillow.

We've been working on everyone's projects for about 3 weeks & we finally finished!

Here are some pictures of the process...

ANNNDDD THE RESULT!

I loved how everyone (for the most part) used the creative side of their brain on this project!

I think they did a pretty good job!

(p.s.-Candi was at the right place at the right time & got an extra pillow that hadn't been finished...She helped me stuff it & carried it around all day...it was SOO cute!)

meet.......EMMA!

This is Emma.

She's small, adorable, cute, adorable, brown & white, annnnnddd....adorable.

We got her from a rescue thing in Tucson.

She's like...12 weeks old or something.

annnnddddd...

adorable.

(did i say that already?)

the rest of my cali pictures!

the trip was totally fantastic. :]

california! (part 1)

part one.

these pictures are not in order.

'cause blogger is dumb like that.

I just decided that I'm going to list alot of pictures & no explanations...

'cause typing takes too long.

goodbye party for the LOBOS

"Lobo's" meaning "Wulf's"

The Wulf family is off to study Spanish for a month or two (or three or four...).

So, to send them off well, the Zobrists hosted our normal "game night" (every wednesday).

They gave us food. Beautiful, chocolatey food.

After food...

...we stayed true to the "game night" name & played Catch Phrase. :]

it was oh so fun