~Our "High Tea" Party~

~About a week ago Phillip had told the pastor at the Chinese church that we would like to have him and his family over before they go out of town for 3 weeks.  This past Sunday they told us that they would like to accept our invitation to our home and the only day that would work for them was the next day...Monday.  They mentioned that they wanted to come for TEA so that neither she nor I would have to cook. =)
BUT YOU KNOW ME...I L!O!V!E! to cook, so I got all excited and planned and served a "High Tea" at our house!  Here are some pictures of when the pastor and his wife and their 2 teenagers and Aunt Jolie (Uncle Charlie was at work) came to our house for TEA this past Monday.
~Since I don't have all the "FANCYS" to have a Victorian style tea party....I decided to use my fun snowmen cloth napkins that I got on a HUGE after Christmas sale at Hobby Lobby and sort of had a snowman theme.~

~Our table~

~We made our sour cream scones into "snowmen" and served 2 kinds of jelly, and Kimberly made up these yummy Choc. Crinkle cookies.~

~Our centerpiece.~

~But when someone is coming to your house for TEA...you should have some tea cups right? =)  All that are in this apt. are just a few LARGE every-different-color-mostly-CHIPPED mugs. =(  So, on Monday before our tea at 4:00 PM Phillip ran out to try to find some tea cups and saucers and some bowls (the only places that sell Styrofoam bowls are party stores and they were closed for some reason.)  Phillip and I had no way of contacting each other so I was PRAYING that God would help him find the things that we needed and get back here on time before our company arrived.  He arrived home just 10 MINUTES before they got here!!!  So, we quickly took the tags off of the new dishes (that Jesus helped Phillip to find for good prices) and washed them up and got them on our table...RIGHT before they rang our doorbell.  Here's our tea cups and saucers Phillip found.  He found some other more fancy ones, but the stores didn't have 12 alike like we needed.  I was happy with these. =)~

 ~Our table with the tea cups added. =)~

~Besides the snowmen scones and choc. cookies above, we made yummy cream puffs...

~And we also served my homemade winter squash soup topped with toasted pecans, sandwiches, fresh cherries, hot green tea fixed like the Chinese like to drink it, and they brought some good Argentine empanadas (like a meat-filled baked pie). The empanadas are setting right in front of Kimberly.
The girls' table. Kimberly, Connie, and Sarah.~

 ~The boys' table. (I ran out of time to make their table fancy.) ={~

~Our table.  L to R: Heather, Pammy, Pastor Aaron, Phillip, Mary, "Aunt" Jolie, and Solomon.~

We had a very nice visit together! They seemed to enjoy their time and we surely did.
I quickly cleaned up and tried to get to bed...for the next day we had a double birthday party to get ready for.  =)
(Which we had already planned and invited guests to...before we knew about our TEA PARTY!  =)
Pics of our birthday party coming soon.