McFall Day at the Fair ~ Butter Corn ~ And More



It was a wild week with going in an hour early every day for work, to having something almost every night.

 

Monday night we had a children's ministry meeting and I was blessed to be able to move to the Puddles group which is 3-4 year olds.  Mike and I taught 3-4's at several different churches.  I am paired with my senior pastor's wife - and I am excited.  Danielle is very crafty!  We won't start the new schedule until September.

 

At work Wednesday we had Iowa State Fair Day with people bringing in all kinds of food on a stick, some brought in art to vote on, we had teams do a butter sculpture and had drawings for free tickets to the Fair.  I was going to be good and stay away from the breakroom and not sample any of the food brought in but that lasted until I ran into a friend that was taking something into the breakroom.  I came out with a huge plate full of good stuff.

 

We had 30 minutes to work on our butter sculpture - which had to be an ear of corn.  There were four teams - East Team, Central Team, West Team (which is my team) and National Accounts.  We had a blast - check out the next two pix.

When the results were in, we didn't even get second place out of four teams!  I let out a  "What, we didn't even get second place! We were robbed, robbed I tell ya".  One of my team members IMed me and told me to keep it quiet down there (at my end of the row).  I was like, you heard that?  He was like - I think everyone on the floor heard that :)

Then that night off to the first of the two women's modules where I will learn if I am a Mary or Martha when sitting at Jesus' feet.  The first night was amazing!

Thursday was my niece (Chrissy) and my Third Annual McFall Day at the Iowa State Fair.  I can't believe Mike has been gone for three of them already.  Check out the pic below of Chrissy and me - we had a riot walking all over the Fair.

Of course it wouldn't be a state fair without me getting my fake, air-brushed tattoo from my vendor on the midway.  He told us that it was either buy a tattoo and get $2.00 off or buy one get one free (BOGO).  Well Chrissy had never gotten a fake tat before but she did that day.  We did the BOGO option.  My tat is in the picture below.

Friday I was really having a challenging day at work - taking a Thursday off and going in to work on a Friday is hard.  Quotes were crazy and other things going on.  I had a jewelry party to go to Friday night at 7:00 and then keep score for my friend from work's softball team at 9:00 Friday night.  Brad's team was visitors and in the first inning they got 16 runs.  I told the guy sitting with me in the stands that the score book had become a coloring book for me.  They called it after 5 innings because it was 22 to 11.

Saturday I woke up with my scar from my fall at work really hurting and I couldn't figure out why - until I finally looked in the mirror.  Half of my scar had blistered and I have no idea why.  I put triple anti-biotic ointment on it and a bandaid and headed to the zoo with a friend.  We had a really fun time at the zoo.  When I got home I looked at the blister again and thought I should drain it - I didn't want to bump it and pop it somewhere that all the fluid would go everywhere.  So I sterilized a needle with a lighter and poked the blister.  I squeezed a ton of clear fluid out.  I tried to cut off the dead skin from the blister but that is pretty hard to do one handed looking at your elbow in the mirror.  So I put a ton of hydrogen peroxide on it to clean it out good, more triple anti-biotic ointment and another bandaid.  It's looking pretty good today.

The last two pix are from today.  I had found the "naked" stick of a cat stick toy that has feathers and bells on the end of it and no idea where the top of the toy had gone.  Sadie found the top and brought it upstairs yesterday.  I took the picture below just seconds before Rowdy pounced on her.

The last picture is Stick and its blooms today - so beautiful!

Saturday is Living Waters Fellowship's School Supply Giveaway - say a prayer for it and us.  We hope to give school supplies away to 1,000 kids and minister to many families!