Missionary Moms Luncheon #2

Since before Sammi left on her mission, I have been a member of the LDS Missionary Moms email group for Florida missionaries. They are a FABULOUS group of women who offer support, encouragement, advice, laughs, shoulders to cry on, etc. We have become GREAT friends!! Well, Saturday, April 3, we had our second Florida Missionary Moms luncheon at Madeline's in South Jordan. This time, Debbie Blair, our wonderfully crazy ADHD leader/friend agreed to allow a committee to organize and plan the event. I was one of the moms from Ft. Lauderdale to help out. We went with a "Florida Flamingo" theme and really decorated up the place with that. The "gift" for all the moms this time was a pillowcase made from the missionary fabric. Marianne Wardle (another FtL mom) made 10 and I made about 30 pillowcases and then I made two lap quilts to be raffled off. It was a LOT of sewing and work but SOOOOO worth it!! We had a FABULOUS time laughing, crying, and bragging.

These are all the "projects" I worked on. There are 25 pillowcases in that pile on the seat of the couch! The bags are more...

The quilts on display at the restaurant. The two ladies that won were THRILLED!!

Debbie did this GREAT table decorations and then we slipped the pillowcases over the backs of the chairs. Another MM, Becky Olson, wrote a cute poem that we attached.

The whole view...

Cards I designed and Debbie made for the "Ice-Breaker" games.

This ADORABLE frame was one of the "Show and Tells" we had there. I've got to figure out how to make these!!

We gathered donations for each mission to send to the Presidents. They can use the stuff to give to those Elders/Sisters who don't get much from home (can you imagine how sad that would be??).

The AMAGING Ft. Lauderdale Moms (plus one Orlando RMM)

Me, Sister Seamons (her son enters the MTC in June--Haitian Creole Speaking), Jan Call, Bobbi Bird, Beth Wilcox, Claudia Bellamy (Orlando RMM), Lanette Crane, Becky Olson, Marianne Wardle

I LOVE THESE WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maddi and our Flamingo. Yes, she blew him up by herself!

Don't they make a cute couple?

IT WAS A GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!