A Roman Feast to Remember.....

My Father's World Feast in the Roman Era

November 20. 2009

Here the boys are preparing their weapons, getting belts for their swords to hang in.. They really enjoyed getting dressed as a Roman Soldier.

He is too cute to be mean with a weapon.. Just look at that dimple.. He is testing out mom's
knives and begging me to let him take one to the feast.. NOT going to happen.....

This is our fearless warrior.. Just look at his beaming eyes of terror..

This is Melissa Harp, at whose home we celebrated our feast in Honor of Emperor Harp, Senator Burow, Senator Elsholtz and Orator Swanson on their return home from Battle.
We are toasting and raising our glasses that they have come home safely..We salute you....

It was customary during each course of a meal to have entertainment.. Here is a roman guard sharing some side stitching jokes .

Another Roman Soldier causing the citizens to drink and be merry.

Here is the Emperor, his two senators
and his orator dining with him.. The men as was customary reclined a the table, as the bible says' Jesus reclined with them.. It was customary for the women to sit on the arm of the couch as the men layed down on their stomachs or on their backs.. They even had a vomitorium (yes it is called that) should you eat too much and purge yourself to be able to eat more..

Here is our group. We had so much fun reclining, dining and laughing.. All of the women wore really dark eyebrows, red cheeks and white powder...
I was glad to see that we all got into the part..

Looks like these young men are finding it no problem to play the part of feasting while reclining..

Ah!!! the boars head that was served at most roman feasts.. We borrowed this from the Tapestry Of Grace Coop as they had their feast a few weeks before us...They made it out of paper mache.

For dessert, the children of Rome were to make edible mosaic with graham crackers, frosting and candy.. Needless to say, they were sugared up for bed...

We had such a wonderful night, I am soooooooooo very excited for our Midieval Feast and am already thinking of fun and creative ideas..

The Harvest Party 2009 with SGCC!!!

"Harvest Party 2009 with Sovereign Grace Community Church in Stillwater, MN.."

Cathy Brown and I along with her kids worked hard on making posters, signs, decorations and all that is needed to make a fun harvest party..
My infamous pumpkin cake.. I entered this in the cakewalk and the pastor's wife Lilli won it.. I won a scrumptous chocolate mint bundt cake made by Leanne Gillstrom.

This was the pumpkin Chris decorated, it was suppose to be the walmart rollback dude.

These were just some of the pumpkins that were submitted by the adults.. More came and as a matter of fact the witch won ( we were not suppose to bring scarry things) but oh well.. The Forbidden fruit actually won first and the witch second.. Go apple.

Here is a picture of the forbidden fruit.. It really looked like a bite was taken out and all they did was paint the pumpkin red and the bit or flesh a whitish yellow.. Cooooool ey.

Here is the category 7 to 11 that Josh and Zack entered.. Zack was the left one. the red spiderman, Josh was the right one the black spiderman and Vitaly was in the middle.. He won first prize, Zack 2nd and Josh 3rd .

Here is the 7 and below category. Nick is all the way to the left and he won 1st place.. GO NICK....

We brought out our little portable fire pit and boy did that come in handy.. Chris stayed by the fire the entire day.. It was about 38 degrees, cold and windy...

Derrick Thingvold and a huge bowl of candy.. Jonathan Leslie, one of our pastors is standing directly behind him...

Josh is decorating a very delicious cookie.. Ivy Cormier brought out a hundred or so cookies for the kids to decorate and eat..

The boys in line to play baseball bowling...Each game they could win some candy..

Here is Nick Bowling..

Everyone standing outside the garage getting warm...

Jennifer Brown and her decorating contest.. This is the Browns
property 5 acres or so.. It was nice to have that land for this.. We had hay rides also.

Here is the kids playing games in the garage...