Another Awesome Acolyte

The acolyte at our 5:30 service tonight came straight from riding, and hence was wearing these:

I wanted to get a picture while she was wearing her robe, but I wasn't quick enough.  I thought these were awesome under her robe.  I'm not sure her mother was as impressed with her acolyting in boots that have recently been cavorting in horse poo...

 

Acolytes and Bishops and Puppets and Preschoolers

The evening seems to have gotten away from me, so I'm sliding today's post in just under the wire.  It was an exciting day at church as the Bishop from the Lutheran Church in Rwanda was visiting us.  Our synod has a companion relationship with them, so the bishop was here for Synod Assembly last week, and then we were fortunate enough to have him visit our congregation this morning.  After church the hubby, the senior pastor and his wife, and I took the bishop to a local winery where we had a really wonderful picnic lunch.  It was great to have a chance to visit and get to know him a little bit.  My 2 favorite parts of the day were during the 2nd service.  First the preschool choir sang 2 songs for the congregation, and they were adorable as always.  After that Gabby the little blue puppet came to talk to the bishop.  Gabby had a blast, and the bishop was a really good sport to talk to a hyper-crazy puppet in something other than his first language.

 

In shoe news, here are more acolyte feet:

 

The acolyte on the left took it in stride, while the one on the right said, "really?  You're really going to take a picture of my feet?"  While her mother rolled her eyes and said I had a foot fetish.  Ahem...I have a SHOE fetish, thank you very much.

 

Cinco de Mayo

Happy Cinco de Mayo!  Or, at least what's left of it.  These shoes have nothing to do with the holiday, but they ARE festive:

 

One of the acolytes at the second service was wearing them, and I thought they were a lot of fun.  She was a good sport about letting me take a picture of her foot, although I'm pretty sure I just reinforced her impression that I'm crazy.  Not sure what kind of impression I made on her grandmother, who is visiting from Switzerland.  She kind of laughed, but also looked at me like I was possibly the oddest person she'd ever met.

 

In other news, the hubby has been working frantically on our backyard.  It's not finished (according to him), but it's getting there, and he set up the hammock this past week while I was at synod assembly.  Ahhhh...I love a good hammock.  We bought ours when we were in Mexico on our honeymoon, and this is the first time we've set it up.  I may just move in permanently. 

 

 

Here you can see some of the yard, and me ensconced in the hammock with a book. Hmmm...I wonder what I should name the hammock? Maybe Harvey. Except then I would end up saying things like, "I'm going to go lay in Harvey..."