Holidy Tea Pictures

Hello!  I thought I would share with you a few photos from the women's holiday tea that I take part in every year at our church.  It the largest outreach event for the women's ministries.  Each year, we bring around 800 ladies together from the community, some that go to our church and some that have been invited by members of the church like me.  I always invite my mom, my mother-in-law, my best friend, and then I try to think of other ladies to invite to fill my table of 8.  As a hostess, I get to decorate my table for 8, anyway I like, with a few guidelines.  A holiday theme, and certain items you must have on your table to serve tea, scones, cookies, lemon curd, devon cream, water, and such.  It's always a lot of fun and gets me in the mood for Christmas!

Take a look at my table this year:

And who doesn't love to eat scones with lemon curd and devon cream?!  It's the best!  The baker that makes them each year, makes a wide selection of yummy scones.  Like pumpkin, cinnamon, blueberry, cherry almond, and others.  And besides what pregnant woman doesn't love to eat?!

Take a look at me at the tea below.  Although the tea was a couple of weeks ago, you can tell how big I'm getting! lol

me with my best friend kim

I need to get better pictures on here, like from the side angle so you can truly tell how far I'm sticking out!  I'm getting huge!  With about 3 more months to ago!  Time is flying by fast!  It's hard to believe we are going to be parents in just 3 short months!  It's exciting and scary at the same time! 

Enjoy your weekend lovelies!

My Eventful Weekend

Sorry girls for the lack of consistency.  It's been a challenging week.  Friday night around 10pm on my way home I was on the highway going the 60mph speed limit and a deer decided it was going to appear out of nowhere and try to cross the road, right into the front of my car!

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The hood of my car went flying up into the windshield and blocked my view!  The impact made me skid into the left line, thankfully there were no cars there, and then it took me a little while to get my car slowed down straightened out and finally parked on the highway!  All the while with the hood still up blocking my view.  It was super scary!  I was by myself, I called 911, was able to get out of my car, called my husband, crying so hard it took him a little while to understand what I was saying.  The police officer showed up within 5 minutes, had me shut off my car because it was leaking fluid.  A fire truck showed up, and three volunteer fire trucks showed up......thankfully my husband arrived shortly after the police officer. 

My car had to be towed, it may be totaled, we are waiting to hear from our insurance company, and they have supplied me with a rental car in the meanwhile.  I went to the emergency room afterwards. I felt ok, just really shaken up, but I just wanted to make sure the baby was ok! Thankfully the baby is fine!  They monitored the heartbeat for an hour or so and then I was released around 1 in the morning. 

So yeah it's been crazy!  I've never hit a deer before, and never really been in a car accident before, besides sliding off the road last winter, on the ice, but not actually coming into contact with anything.  It was intense and scary!  But thank goodness, God was looking out for me and my little one, something that could have been a lot worse, was hardly anything, for me and the baby anyway, the car is a completely different story!  Can't wait to find out if the car is actually considered totaled or if it's worth fixing.  I've only had it a little over a year, so it's sad if it's totaled.  We will just have to wait and see. 

I would have settled for this cute deer swear from H & M instead of an actual deer hitting my car! 



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How about you?  Have you ever had a scary encounter with a deer or maybe another animal?  Or just a really bad car accident?  Hopefully nothing too serious!