An (After) Valentine's Day Tea!

On Saturday, Sharon, my sweet Mother In Law, and I hosted a Ladies (After) Valentine's Day tea! (For a quick side-note, I'm borrowing these pictures from both Sharon and Kathi as I, unfortunately, forgot to take pictures!!) Sharon and I had such a wonderful time planning and preparing this tea for our wonderful friends and family!

Here I am preparing the food. We served 3 types of tea sandwhiches: Cucumber, Pineapple Cream Cheese, and Egg Salad. Cucumber was my favorite! We also served fruit, veggies, cheese and crackers, jello pink salad, nuts, chocolates and cheesecake for dessert! It took us all morning to prepare!

Here's Sharon in front of the finished food! Next, she rushed off to get ready as we welcomed in guests who were early birds! We didn't really pencil in early birds in our plans! Oops!

For drinks, we served coffee, a variety of hot teas, and I made this raspberry iced tea! It was delicious!

Here is Sharon and I all dolled up at the tea!

Kathi's daughters Victoria and Jessica enjoying their lunch!

We went around the room and had each lady share how they knew either Sharon or I and say something sweet about their husband (or what they would want in a husband, or dad - we had a few younger girls!).

Later, friend Alisha, and I sang a sweet love song, Ice Cream by Sarah Mclaughlin. Alisha and I both lead worship at our church and Sharon had asked me if we'd sing a song. I was a little apprehensive at first but talked with Alisha and we both agreed to do it.

Here is Sharon and her good friend Shannon. Shannon and a few other ladies blessed us with hostess gifts as the entered the house! It was so sweet of them to bring these unexpected gifts!

Here are our friends Desi and Lisa. You've probably seen them both on Sharon's blog! They are such sweet girls who love the Lord with all their hearts! They are fun and great to spend time with! (Glad you could be there girls!)

Kathy and I getting the dishes washed. Kathy, Desi, and Lisa all helped out with the dishes! We were so thankful to have the help! After all, there were a total of 25 women there! Lots to wash!

And here are the sisters!

I'm so glad we could do this tea and give our friends and family a treat like this. The only thing that could have made it better would have been lots of sunshine! We'll have to do a Summer tea!