Arrivals and Departures, The Week that Was!

What a lot can happen in one week.

Last week we had the whole family visiting and our garage entry looked like this!

Sunday morning it looked like this!

One family of Kids and grandkids departed for their home in Seattle on Satuday evening

And another family of kids and grandkids packed up their truck and trailer and departed for Saskatchewan on Sunday Morning.

Our son Rick and his wife who live here decided we’d had enough of departures and early Tuesday morning announced a welcome arrival.

This precious little one is doing so well and we love her to bits.  She has a bit of growing to do before she can depart from the hospital and arrive at her new home. As you can imagine – this made the week busy with eagerly made hospital visits.

In between we had  Stephan, a Danish Colleague arrive to do a bit of training and make a business trip with Rick to Prince George.  

However with his daughter’s arrival, Rick’s commitments were necessarily  changed and our employee took his place. When they arrived  back on Thursday, we hosted Stephan for dinner before he departed.

Thursday was momentous for the “Mennonite Girls”.  Our cook book is out and Thursday “GrandPappy’s”, a local business hosted our first book signing event.  We arrived there with much excitement.

Halfway through the afternoon, the excitement increased when Betty, one of the “Girls” arrived a day earlier than we expected.

Friday, Charlotte and Ellen arrived and then in the evening, all 10 “Girls” and 9 husbands (we missed you Tony!) arrived at Terry and Lovella’s for our official Book Launch Party.  Our first order of business was a photo of us all with our cookbooks.  (As you can see it was (still) raining so I apologize for the raindrop in the corner)

We had a fabulous dinner and even better fellowship.

A toast to Lovella, our Blog Creator and Administrator for an amazing job well done.

After more signing and a few goodbyes we departed for our beds.

The next morning some of us arrived at Winks In Chilliwack to sign more books while others arrived at Lepp’s Farm Market to do the same.  These businesses and others ( see the link on the Mennonite Girls Can Cook blog) have been so gracious in their support for our project with some even giving all their profits to the charity our book sales is supporting.

One more fun arrival was that of “Ocean Soul” a fellow blogger whose blog many of us follow.

So the week ended with departures as Betty and Ellen and their husbands as well as Charlotte left to visit friends or head home.

I’m so grateful for each of these mentioned above.  It was an incredibly busy week but I wouldn’t have missed a minute of it.