A "Blessed Talent" Night

A few weeks ago, we had a "Blessed Talent" night and a wonderful evening of fellowship with Joshua, Hannah, and Lily and the Bender family.  It was great!!

 The Harris' brought us the beautiful flowers!

 Hannah and I cutting (or rather scooping) watermelon.  Thank you Benders for bringing it - it was delicious!!!

 Corinne and Lily

 Thaddeus

 Sabrina and Tabitha

 Julia and Sienna

 Getting ready to start - Thaddeus loves "b"-balls"!!! :)

 Stasia did a lovely poem "Being Thankful"

 Benjamin recited the Mayflower Compact

 Hannah read a lovely poem that she wrote for the mothers

 Even Shenandoah did something!!!  She recited Genesis 1:1

 Seth recited Psalm 100 and a poem "Mice"

 Tabitha is crawling!

 Julia played "Take My Life and Let It Be"

 Lily gave drawing demonstrations on how to draw faces

(Sabrina held the board)

Progress

More progress

Lily does a great job!

Sayer recited Psalm 23 and a poem "The Sunbeam"

Levi sang a memory verse and then led all of us in singing Micah 6:8

Sienna recited "If Jesus Came to Your House"

Mr. and Mrs. Bender recited a Psalm together

Sabrina played "Moonlight Sonata"

Joshua and Levi

Hannah and Tabitha

Watching the proceedings

Joshua sang while Hannah accompanied him

Daddy surprised us by memorizing "Casey at the Bat"

Captivation

More captivation

Enjoying the delicious pudding that the Harris' brought!

It was a great evening of fellowship

I was a second too late in getting a picture of daddy and Benjamin playing the piano.  When I asked them to pose for me again, this is what I got!!  Ha ha...

All tuckered out

The Benders ended up staying the night!  Here are a couple pictures from the next morning

Seth and Tabitha

The parents

Reading books together - isn't that cute?!