A House Full of Characters

One of my bucket list items was to host a murder mystery and we scratched that off the list this past weekend!! Baroness Audrey von Munchen was murdered and our Sunday School of 32 people gathered at our house to investigate who did it! I, Freddie Farr, the Baroness's lawyer, was thoroughly impressed with every guest that came. They were dressed up beautifully, according to their character and so many of them stayed in character nicely throughout the whole evening. At the end, no one officially claimed they knew who the murderer was, even though some tried to say afterwards that they knew who it was. Hindsight bias does that to you everytime. :)

Overall, I think it was a HUGE success and we'll definitely be sure to do it again. Perhaps this summer we'll do a pirate themed version. I can't wait!

As always, Eloise

Hooked on Gardening

One of my closest friends, Karessa, has always told me how much she loves working in the yard and in her garden. I never understood why until this past week during our spring break. Joel & I decided to create some curb appeal to our house (since there was none).

Thanks to our wonderful Sunday School leaders, Scott & Dee, we were able to help plan out what shrubs we wanted in the front of our house. They were so helpful in figuring out which ones would work well on that side of the house. One afternoon they came over and we drove around the area to look at various shrubs to see which ones we liked.

Then we planned it all out and stopped by Hughes Plant Farm in S. Tyler off of 69. Instead of buying expensive plants at Lowe's or Home Depot, we bought them for 1/2 the price @ Hughe's!! We did buy one plant @ Lowe's and that was a beautiful hydrangea.

Over 2 days, we worked our butts off creating flower beds and planting some beautiful shrubs!! We're now hooked onto gardening and can't wait to tackle the backyard this summer!! Now let's hope we can keep them alive even through the hot TX summer!!

As always, Eloise

Good grief!

so it's pretty lame that it's been over a year since I've blogged. So here it is...a new post!! The end. ;) More to come later....hopefully not a year from now.

As always, Eloise