Come to the Banquet

Come to the Banquet is a ministry at St. Michaels' Cathedral. It began after a grant was given to the Young Adult group atthe Cathedral, Ex Nihilo. These youngs adults get other volunteers from the parish and provide a well-catered, hot meal for the area's less fortunate. Started in May of 2009, this program continues to grow and offers more meals each month. Whatever food is left over, gets packed up and sent home with the diners. We've served Italian, Chinese, BBQ, different chicken dishes, and there are always salads and home-made desserts to compliment the main entrees.

Today, we served nearly 100 brothers and sisters, of all colors, ages, and financial backgrounds. For one family, it was the first time thay had accepted a meal from a group like this, as their financial security recently got lost. The children run around the room safely and the diners enjoy conversations with the volunteers from the church. We stay open as long as people keep walking in, and the smiles that come along with the "thank yous" are just as pleasing.

I've made it my personal goal to be the one in charge of clean up. I enjoy gathering people's plates and taking the mess out from in front of them. For so long, I've been able to sit and be waited on, and it's truly a humbling pleasure to serve others in the same way. For so many of them, they've been the ones looking at the garbage with an empty stomach, and I get to make sure their bellies are full before I take care of the dirty work. I'm grateful for groups like this that truly welcome others into their homes, even when it's a home of worship. It's a wonderful way to truly preach the message of welcoming a stranger, never knowing if you might be dining in the company of Christ himself.

Our First Family Picture!

We had my family over for dinner this weekend and my dad took some pictures for us. Up until this weekend, Kyrie hadn't barked or talked at all, but she was having so much fun with everyone that her voice suddenly decided to make an appearance and we literally couldn't shut her up.

We tried to take her to the Dog Park on Sunday morning, but the combination of many other big, loud dogs freaked us all out a little bit. So we went to BSU and walked around the green belt and went down to the river. She immediately went right for the water and didn't come out. We let her off her leash (don't tell anyone) and she had a great time wandering around and seeing what kind of adventures there were to conquer. It was quite the morning.

Where is our CAMERA????

So many exciting things are happening in our lives right now and our biggest obstacle is that we don’t have a camera to document it. Somewhere in the hub-fuss of moving and everything, we’ve seriously misplaced it So, you get to read about our lives for now and in the mean time, let us know what cameras you like so that we can take your suggestions and go buy a new one.

We are in love with our new doggy and are getting to know more and more about her everyday. She’s coming out of her shell slowly but has starting wagging her behind, since she doesn’t have a tail, and is very much into licking our faces once they’re within reach. She sleeps in our room on her little bed and hasn’t asked to get up during the night once- she’s a very good girl and lets her mommy and daddy sleep all night long—we’ll see how long it lasts.

Megan got a job offer to start working at Curves for Woman on the weekends, which means she’ll be wrapping up her water aerobics classes at the end of the month. After five years of being in the pool, time to move on and try something new…perhaps tap dance lessons…

We got a DOG!!

Kyrie Case became the newest member of the Case family this afternoon. She is a pound puppy from the Boise Humaine Society. Kyrie turned 2 years old, three days ago. An Australian Shepherd, who doesn't herd, Kyrie is shy and timid, but has already decided she's going to be a Daddy's girl. She is house-trained, crate-trained, and leash-trained (HOORAY!!). We got her a bed and crate and she already seems tuckered out from a long day. A walk around her new neighborhood still awaits her tonight and then a picnic in the park tomorrow. We're very happy she chose us to be her humans and we look forward to sharing more doggy adventures in the near future.

Blog Remodel

With much thanks to a more senior blogger, I am happy to introduce my new and improved blog. Much more cute- much more me. Now I just have to figure out what my "personal blogger" did to make it look so good so that I can duplicate it on my own. So a very big thank you goes out to the tech dept in Parker, CO!!!!!