Dinner

About 4:45 our first guest started arriving. Just about then I realized the bread still needed to be picked up from Avanti's. Mark graciously drove to pick up the 10 loaves ordered. The kids all started showing up right at 5:00pm. They were herded into the living room so the kitchen could become a work area. Darlene and Ken Hoerr brought the salad and Darlene put it together on the kitchen block. Marvin and Gail brought all the drinks so Gail started putting ice in cups and pouring. The lasagna was cut and put back in the oven until after the prayer. Mark showed up with the bread just a few minutes after 5:00pm. He was sent out to arrange for someone to have the prayer. The food line actually moved along pretty well and within 15 minutes all 35 were sitting down eating.

The playroom was the adult room, Even the 2 adults that were in the living room ended up crowding in the playroom after the meal for some visiting. We ran out of chairs and Rhonda had to sit on a igloo water cooler, notice how much higher she is sitting than the rest of the group. With Rhonda being one of the shortest in the room it was about time she had a chance to look down on everyone.

Such a great group of kids from Bluffton, IN and Peoria, IL. Nice to hear the excited visiting of friends.

The dining room table fit 15, the table in the living room fit 8.

The Bluffton group needed to be at the Skyline home by 7:00pm so started loading up around 6:30pm. Once everyone was gone, the dogs were allowed back into the house and given 3 of the empty lasagna pans to clean out.
Darcy was following hers all over the kitchen and finally got it stuck in the hallway corner where it couldn't move so could be licked out perfect before throwing it away.

Emma had hers torn to shreds by the time she had all the delicious stuck on lasagna licked clean off every piece of pan.

I have one more load of laundry to finish and right now I'm procrastinating. Just don't want to run back upstairs to empty the dryer. It was really a nice evening. Mark went to the home with the group and will be heading to Ken and Darlene's after the singing for more refreshments. Really looking forward to church tomorrow. Hope the kids will sing not just for the jail services but in afternoon church also. AND hopefully we get to hear Ron Kipfer again!
Other news is Mom, Diane, Beth, Joan and Faith left at 3:30am this morning and made it down to the gulf in 13.5 hours. They walked down to Bahama Bob's for dinner.