A Month of Goodbyes...

Lois Ann Chupp left this month for maid work in Mozambique. She is helping a missionary family there with household chores and babysitting. They are trying to learn the language better, but are getting wore down trying to study language and take care of things at home. 

We had several goodbye parties for her this month. Some were fun, others were a little sad. 😥

Joseph is becoming quite the little personality! He's hilarious!

Mabel planned a going away party for Lois. She had a daffy meal and a mystery meal planned. That sure was interesting! These are all of our daffy meal dishes.

We weren't allowed in the kitchen. Period.

You use just whatever crazy kind of dishes you can think of for a daffy meal. These were mine.

Abi's

Unfortunately, Mabel made us switch eatery sets, so we couldn't even use what we'd brought. 😟 I was really looking forward to using my own stuff, but whatever, that's ok. Jason got Meredith's dishes. His fork was a broken fly swatter handle.

Sam got Grace's dishes, which included chopsticks.

Taylor got my dishes.

I got Taylor's dishes which were, a microwave plate, ice cream scoop, screw driver, a very sharp bread knife and a cream pitcher. The knife was the easiest thing to eat off of, but I had to eat very gingerly. 😜

Mabel did the mystery meal in Portuguese, the native language of Mozambique.

Grace got Sam's dishes, which included a sippy cup for her drinking glass. 😂

Jen got Josh's dishes- a disk golf, skid steer light cover, trim coil spoon, and his huge skinning knife.

 After supper, we had to find our own dishes and wash them.

They numbered us off into four groups to do skits. Each group received a bag with items in it that they had to use in a skit. It was so fun!

Our group were the Robinson cousins who were on a vacation to Canada but got lost in Alaska. Our family tree didn't have many branches. 😂

This group did traveling salesmen.

Sadly, I don't have a picture of this group in action. They did a doctor skit.

The last group did a surprise birthday party.

T.J. had his birthday this month. We sang "Happy Birthday" to him, but then realized we'd forgot to light the candles on his cake! So, we had to sing it again, this time all off key and horrible. After he blew his candles out, we told him to make a wish. He said, "I wish they wouldn't sing to me again." As you know, if you tell your wish it never comes true. So, we had to sing to him again.

The tail end of our last "Happy Birthday."

A week before Lois left, we girls had a sleep over in the church's apartment. We brought these tea lights up from the church so that we could have a pretty, ambient atmosphere. As you can see, they ended up not being so ambient. Grace just couldn't keep her lights in her eyes.

I couldn't put anymore pictures on after these because we all got in our pajamas. 😉

A breakfast of scrambled eggs and Pillsbury cinnamon rolls... Yum!

I heartily agree!

These two are such cuties!

Doughy was telling me about a mouse and an elephant. Like I said above, he's developing quite the little personality.

I made a candy board for Lois Ann as a going away gift.

The granary office that we clean is always extremely filthy.

We had a very special last Sister's Meeting with Lois. Abi and I were gone pretty much all day cleaning and stuff and while we were gone, Mom got up this lovely feast!

Our mail went kooky awhile back... It said we had over 10,000 unread emails. It kept counting up and up, then it would go down. I messed around with it for quite awhile. Somehow I ended up fixing it. I don't know what I did.

The Smith's came for Alaina's birthday party last Saturday. Some of them came Friday night, so we thought, what better idea than to take them to Sweet Joy's Saturday morning!

Alaina's cake

I can't believe she's one already!

Somebody put this cute party hat on her.

Kels made a supper fit for a king!

Little Laina girl had no idea what to do with all the presents!

This is a still from the video I took of us singing for her. Sorry it's so dark.

She made short work of her cupcake!

They were trying to get the balloons up in the fan.

Alaina's coat is still too big for her. 😊

Katelyn's imagination is something else!

We went to the airport to see Lois off Monday afternoon. It was sad to say goodbye. We'll miss you, Loui!

After the airport, we went to visit an elderly friend who is at an assisted living place. By the time we left there it was about 2;30. Gram had two Panera Bread gift cards so... we consoled ourselves with hot drinks and food. 😉 I got their kid's mac 'n' cheese, a cinnamon crunch scone and a chai latte. Wow! It was yummy!

Abi's cow Talitha went to cow heaven this Tuesday. 😔 It was a sad day for Abi.