Our first MOPS meeting!

Our first MOPS of the year was in my (Andrea's) opinion a huge success! Here are a few pictures from the morning! We had a few new faces.......that is Adrienne on the far right.Craft time with some oooey, gooey caramel.
Our fearless leader Kara! Thanks for all you do Kara. We love you!
And our marvelous mentor Joanie! You are the best! We are so blessed to have you!
My camera was abducted during our "free time" at the end. The following are some pictures I was surprised to find later that day. Nice one Kara!

I'm not sure if this is a self portrait or not but I think I can see up your nose Loren!
I guess Kara takes credit for this last shot of Loren's foot. It is a beautiful foot...no corns, callouses, and a nice fall shade of polish. What an artistic eye you have Kara! Let this be a lesson to you girls not to steal other peoples cameras! Cheryl, be careful of these two at convention!!!

Oct 2nd meeting

As you all know, Cheryl, Loren, and I will be gone for the Oct. 2nd meeting. THEREFORE, we need all of you to step up! So I am typing out an agenda for the meeting along with the assigned person to help with that task. If you don't think you can do it, or you have a better idea, let me know!! Remember that steering is bringing snack again this week!!

9-9:20~Check-in/snack (Andrea can you please sit at the welcome table and make sure everyone checks in...NO MONEY WILL BE TAKEN THIS WEEK)
9:20~Welcome mom's and give away 2 prizes...closest birthday and person who stayed up the latest last night. (Courtney)..Lori will see if anyone is expecting!!!
9:30 ~ Icebreaker: How many words: Using the word Amusement have the girls come up with as many words as they can from it. You can team them up or just have them do it individually. Give a prize for the winner. (Courtney...I did have the purse weight game down but we discussed that mom's don't bring purses!! )
9:40~Craft: Shrinky dink name tags~Andrea
10:00~ Joanie: Discipline
10:40~Discussion groups (I will be sending out a list for discussion groups...we are dividing them demographically)
10:55~ Clean up


So sad I will be missing this meeting!! Praying it goes well!!!

Sept 18th decorations

Hey girls...I found this on none other than "Whimsy-girls"website and thought it was a great idea for the circus theme! Whatcha think?


I may need some help blowing these up, but thought they would make a cheap center piece. I have the water balloons and tons of straws...just might need a few vases..or we could put them in the popcorn buckets?

Courtney, do you think you can still pick up some balloons at PC in the morning??

Forgot something

For anyone who is interested: I want to pray before each meeting this year! Please join me 10 mins before 9 to life the meeting up to God and pray for the mom's who will be walking through the door! If your interested , let me know!!

Steering team notes 9/11

So instead of typing out all of the notes we took today, I figured I would just blog a few points of discussion.

9/18 meeting:
~Steering team will be bringing snack for the first two meetings
~Balloons need to be purchased (talk about helium tank)
~First TWO meetings are free for moms
~no discussion groups for this meeting only
*we will divide groups after first meeting demographically

~Joanie will be speaking on discipline on 10/2 and difficult relationships on 11/20

~MOPPETS tags will be made after first meeting
~Added policy to MOPPETS regarding kids staying in their assigned age groups

~Cheryl will be changing Financial info for mom's who already paid for year.

~We are hosting Fall Council on November 1st.
*Cindy is asking her hubby where he orders boxed lunches from
*We need to provide a breakfast (Coffee, juice, tea, and pastries made by each of us)
*We need some people to set up the night before (i'm in...anyone want to join me)

~Prayer requests
*Loren: Mike would openly go to small group
*Cindy: transition and adjustment to having all school aged children
*Joanie: Job search for Bob. Harvard?
*Courtney: friend with new baby girl...adjustment to having four kids
*Kara: Praise for Katie Tait, good doctors appointment on Tuesday for leg
*Andrea: Erica and pre-eclampsia.
*Amy: Brothers deployment to Iraq, Sylvia's living arrangements, Patience for Amy
*Lori: Husband may have a new contract, sister-in-law starting preschool with low enrollment
*Cheryl: Heidi's pregnancy and delivery soon
*Faith: Brian's job schedule...stay the same

So glad we had a great meeting today girls! I love spending time with you and pray that each of you continues to have a passion to bring moms to Christ. Please keep each other in your prayers this week and also pray for an AWESOME turn out next week! Love you all!!!

Kara

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