celebrating Life everlasting

i was excited to celebrate R-day and decided to make up another round of sweets to hand out to friends in honor of this special day. i found a couple of recipes i wanted to try and both turned out pretty well i think. here are the lemony sugar cookies i made and i also made some cocoa-chocolate chip merengues (not pictured). i think they went over pretty well.

so, our Int'l fellowship had a sunrise service at the local Roman ruins. it was so beautiful and really neat. it felt like a scene or two out of the film, Pride & Prejudice. it was really neat to see the sunrise and sing together. mmmm. i also got to share a little about my story later that day with the group. that was a really great experience, too.

i was really excited as earlier that week i went to a friend's house and she gave me this gift bag full of goodies you see pictured here. i was so excited to get the bunny as it felt like an E basket! it is also funny to say that i got a set of unmentionables and some exciting perfume as well in the bag. i just love NA'cans:)

we were asked to bring flowers with us on E morning in order to put them on the cross to celebrate new Life. i had picked out the bouquet to the left and after i told the guys at the flower place why i was buying them, one guy insisted on giving me a "gift" bouquet you see there to the right. it was cool. a very beautiful day indeed.

later that day i got to spend the afternoon with a very fabulous NA friend. it was so great to see her as i hadn't seen her in quite some time. she is a gal that i met like my first month here, so it has been so amazing to get to the point to be able to communicate much, much better with her. and i just really appreciate that she makes a concious effort, i know, to speak slower and to even use words that i know:)

so, needless to say, this day celebrating new Life was an incredible one. wow. yeah.