Potlucks, Family Parties, and Flying Wallendas

We are still loving our church and Sunday School class. Today our class held a potluck after church to allow us to get to know each other better and also for everyone to meet each other's families. Unlike many group food settings (like in a restaurant), this worked well because all the kids had plenty of room to run around.  Joshua and especially Clara took advantage of this and ran around like crazed fools.

In the evening we went to Mom and Ron's house for a family celebration of Mom's birthday.  All of our local family were in attendance, which was great.  Matt, Abby, and David couldn't stay the entire time but were there for quite awhile.  Meghan made Clara a dairy-free cake with dairy-free frosting so she wouldn't be left out of the cake fun.  Ron organized the event, and it went off really well.  Mom seemed very pleased to have a chance to celebrate the day with much of her family. 

And we avoided a potential huge downer when Nik Wallenda successfully tight-roped across part of the Grand Canyon instead of falling to his death in front of us on live national TV.  That just might have put a tiny damper on the evening, so we were all glad that worked out.