Easter....goodies and craft

Precious Easter Goodies:
(from http://familyfun.go.com/)


Ingredients:
1 dozen cupcakes
1 bag jelly beans
2 cups white icing
Sweetened coconut, colored with green food coloring

Instructions:
* First, frost the cupcakes with white icing. Bend a pipe cleaner or a piece of red licorice into an arch and push the ends into the sides of each cupcake.
* Shake the shredded coconut in a stainless steel bowl. Sprinkle on food coloring bit by bit, mixing vigorously to distribute the color
* Place a pinch of shredded coconut on each iced cupcake. Now place three jelly beans on the "nest" of coconut.
* Tie a small ribbon bow on the pipe cleaner or licorice handle at a jaunty angle.
* Put one cupcake basket by each place setting at Easter brunch or give them as gifts.

Ingredients:
1 dozen cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe)
White icing
Shredded coconut
Pink decorators' sugar
Jelly bean nose
Chewable Sweet Tart eyes
Large marshmallow
Mini marshmallows

Instructions:
* Frost a cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) with white icing and sprinkle on shredded coconut fur.
* Cut a large marshmallow in half widthwise. Squeeze each half slightly to give it an oval shape, then decorate the sticky side of each one with pink decorators' sugar and set them in place for ears.
* Add a jelly bean nose and either jelly bean or snipped Sweet Tart eyes, and mini marshmallows for cheeks. For a finishing touch, draw on decorators' gel pupils or whiskers if you'd like.

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Resurrection Eggs are a great way to share the story of the Resurrection with your child. This is a step-by-step video on how to make your own and also shows how to share it with you little one(s)....Enjoy!!


Happy Easter!!

March Newsletter

Mar. 25th: VFD Memorial Park at 10:30 (N. Travis St.)

Mar. 26th: Easter Egg Hunt at Hewlett Park. Bring eggs.

April 8th: City park- corner of Pearl St. and Park St. 10:30. MNO at Ginny's (more info to come)

April 15th: MOPS and McDonald’s.

February Meeting & Newsletter

Pastor Mark Forrest, the pastor at Lakeside Baptist Church, spoke at our February MOPS meeting on the topic of biblical parenting. Pastor Mark is such an awesome speaker and has a God-given ability to inspire one to dig deeper in our walk as Christians and as mothers. Thank you, Pastor Mark! We also chatted at our tables about the personal struggles and strengths we have as mothers.

It was so fun to be able to get to know many moms a little better with our group ICE BREAKER. We all shared some interesting factoids with our group. It was awesome to realize we have such talented and gifted moms in our MOPS group! God has made each one of us so perfectly and also so unique! We have moms who....
* love to cook
* hate to cook
* love to speak up in groups
* hide at the possibility that they might have to speak up
* were missonaries around the globe
* have amazing testimonies about God's goodness
* were Pine Cove counselors
* love the Dallas Cowboys
* are Aggies
* are Okies
* love little babies
* went and worked in Washington D.C.
* take clogging classes
* are pastor's wives
* were teachers, event planners, counselors, physical therapists, in public relations......the list goes on

After this 'ice breaker' I thought about Romans 12:4-8, where God tells us each one of us is a member of one body and we all have a unique function and have different gifts! How true is this and what an excellent display of His body at our meeting!
vs. 5: " so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us...."
Sometimes we forget how perfect God made each one of us and how He created us to be unique and desires us to be ourselves. If you ever doubt what makes you special, remember God's word and He will remind you how He designed you and how perfectly you were knitted in the womb!

If you would like to help with next year's MOPS group as part of the STEERING COMMITTEE, contact Shelly Atwood. Shelly will be the director of MOPS next year and is looking for moms who would like to serve in any way through MOPS.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, March 11, due to the Spring Break holiday.
Hope to see you there!