Church Picnic

Our church has an annual picnic on Labor Day weekend, and since we're new to the congregation, we thought we'd go check things out (and hopefully meet some people). We caught the 9 o'clock service Sunday morning, headed home to rest up and prepare a picnic meal, and then headed to Lewisville Park in Battle Ground, Washington. Battle Ground is a town about 20 minutes north of us, in a beautiful country setting.

Liam is thoroughly enjoying the music at the picnic.
If you look close enough, you can almost see his two bottom teeth!

I must say, I have three handsome little men! (and one handsome MAN!)

Nefty's practicing his soccer moves. He has his "soccer face" on.

Me trying to get a pic of the worship band that blessed us with great music while folks munched, played games, and chatted with each other.

Solomon, a.k.a. The Cookie Monster


We showed up too late to catch the water baptisms in the river (bummer), but were there just in time to hear the results of the church bake off. I'm going to have to start planning for what I'll enter next year (definitely not my chocolate cookies, though my boys don't seem to mind that they're not perfect).

As new additions to the congregation, we don't know many people. We were enjoying the beauty of our surroundings, but yearning to make connections with some other young families. And God is so faithful! A gal, Anna, came over to us with whom both Emilio and I had talked to briefly before. She re-introduced herself and her husband and 7 1/2 month old son. She also introduced her dad, who interestingly enough, was born in Guatemala to missionary parents! Then we met the pianist, his wife and three sons. He, Jason, is an avid soccer fan and his sons all play. God just plain blessed our socks off, knowing how much we wanted to meet people, but also how scary it can be to go and introduce yourself to unfamiliar faces. Right when we started to become discouraged, He sent Anna to encourage us. God is good - ALL THE TIME!