Konos: Patience - Bakery Tour
Konos Character Trait: Patience
Theme: Wheat/Bread
As part of our study on wheat, we took a field trip to the Mrs. Baird's Bakery in Fort Worth. They offer free tours to the public but unfortunately the do have age restrictions so Rachel wasn't able to come with us.
We have a Mrs. Baird's Bakery Outlet near our home so I took Nicholas by there before we left for Fort Worth. It was a great way to show Nicholas some of the products made at the bakery.
It's about an hour drive to the bakery so we decided to pick up some snacks for the trip. Yum, chocolate covered donuts!
Our tour was scheduled for 11:00. There is a special parking area for tours.
We waited in a little room for the rest of the tour participants to show up. There was a small group of adults and a small group of older school kids but we were most excited to get to know the other homeschool family that had come for the tour.
This is the real Mrs. Baird's workign bakery so we had a little talk about safety. Everyone had to wear a hair net and a helmet with an attached speaker so we could easily hear our tour guide.
We were not allowed to take pictures during the tour but trust me, it was really cool! It was neat to see the really big equipment for making big batches of dough, the giant ovens, and the amazing conveyor belt systems.
After the tour, we returned to the little room where our tour guide sliced up several loaves of hot fresh bread for us to sample.
The sample pieces were huge - about as thick as 2-3 regular slices of bread....and covered in butter. Um um good!
As we were leaving, our tour guide gave us free back packs and powdered donuts! Oh how did she know my weakness for powdered donuts?
Because we didn't feel like we had already had enough carbs for the day, we stopped at the Mrs. Baird's Bakery Outlet outside the bakery. Yes, they actually had more choices than the one we had been to earlier in the day so I'm glad we went.
The products at the outlets are fine but they are close to their expiration dates so the company wants to move them quickly at discounted prices. Not only do you get great deals on bread products but the outlet stores also offer other special deals like this one....spend $6.00 in the store and you get to pick a free item from this rack.
What a fun (and carb-rich) day!
The Mrs. Baird's Bakery is located at 7301 South Freeway,Fort Worth, TX 76134. Tours are free to the public but must be scheduled in advance. For more information, please call the bakery at (817) 615-3050 or visit the Mrs. Baird's Bakery website.
Theme: Wheat/Bread
As part of our study on wheat, we took a field trip to the Mrs. Baird's Bakery in Fort Worth. They offer free tours to the public but unfortunately the do have age restrictions so Rachel wasn't able to come with us.
We have a Mrs. Baird's Bakery Outlet near our home so I took Nicholas by there before we left for Fort Worth. It was a great way to show Nicholas some of the products made at the bakery.
It's about an hour drive to the bakery so we decided to pick up some snacks for the trip. Yum, chocolate covered donuts!
Our tour was scheduled for 11:00. There is a special parking area for tours.
We waited in a little room for the rest of the tour participants to show up. There was a small group of adults and a small group of older school kids but we were most excited to get to know the other homeschool family that had come for the tour.
This is the real Mrs. Baird's workign bakery so we had a little talk about safety. Everyone had to wear a hair net and a helmet with an attached speaker so we could easily hear our tour guide.
After the tour, we returned to the little room where our tour guide sliced up several loaves of hot fresh bread for us to sample.
The sample pieces were huge - about as thick as 2-3 regular slices of bread....and covered in butter. Um um good!
As we were leaving, our tour guide gave us free back packs and powdered donuts! Oh how did she know my weakness for powdered donuts?
Because we didn't feel like we had already had enough carbs for the day, we stopped at the Mrs. Baird's Bakery Outlet outside the bakery. Yes, they actually had more choices than the one we had been to earlier in the day so I'm glad we went.
The products at the outlets are fine but they are close to their expiration dates so the company wants to move them quickly at discounted prices. Not only do you get great deals on bread products but the outlet stores also offer other special deals like this one....spend $6.00 in the store and you get to pick a free item from this rack.
What a fun (and carb-rich) day!
The Mrs. Baird's Bakery is located at 7301 South Freeway,Fort Worth, TX 76134. Tours are free to the public but must be scheduled in advance. For more information, please call the bakery at (817) 615-3050 or visit the Mrs. Baird's Bakery website.
Soul Sisters Easter Outreach
I'm a proud Soul Sister!
Soul Sisters is a weekly Bible study at Valley Creek Church. I just started in January but some of the women at my table have been attending since the group started many years ago. It has been neat because you sit at the same table each time so you really get to know your little group of women, even though there are 700 women in Soul Sisters.
Soul Sisters is a phenomenal group and the message this semester is incredible. It's a Beth Moore (love her!) Bible Study called Inheritance. The key phrase throughout the message has been Psalm 16:5-6 "The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance" Check out the trailer for the series HERE.
Tonight's session was a little different than usual. We started our session with our usual worship music but then instead of our Beth Moore study we worked on our outreach project. For Easter, we worked on an outreach project and delivered gift baskets with necessity items as well as toys and Easter items to families in need in a local apartment complex. Everyone brought items to donate to the baskets and each table had two gift baskets to make. At our table, we divided up the recommended donation items so that each person brought three items for each basket. We even decorated the baskets to make them look awesome!
Aren't they cute?!
I love my Soul Sisters!
Once we finished putting our baskets together, our table piled into an SUV and headed over the apartment complex to make our deliveries. It was amazing to see all of the Soul Sisters walking around this complex with their baskets of love bringing the message of Jesus out into the community.
If you'd like to find out more about Soul Sisters, you can find more information HERE.
Soul Sisters is a weekly Bible study at Valley Creek Church. I just started in January but some of the women at my table have been attending since the group started many years ago. It has been neat because you sit at the same table each time so you really get to know your little group of women, even though there are 700 women in Soul Sisters.
Soul Sisters is a phenomenal group and the message this semester is incredible. It's a Beth Moore (love her!) Bible Study called Inheritance. The key phrase throughout the message has been Psalm 16:5-6 "The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance" Check out the trailer for the series HERE.
Tonight's session was a little different than usual. We started our session with our usual worship music but then instead of our Beth Moore study we worked on our outreach project. For Easter, we worked on an outreach project and delivered gift baskets with necessity items as well as toys and Easter items to families in need in a local apartment complex. Everyone brought items to donate to the baskets and each table had two gift baskets to make. At our table, we divided up the recommended donation items so that each person brought three items for each basket. We even decorated the baskets to make them look awesome!
Aren't they cute?!
I love my Soul Sisters!
Once we finished putting our baskets together, our table piled into an SUV and headed over the apartment complex to make our deliveries. It was amazing to see all of the Soul Sisters walking around this complex with their baskets of love bringing the message of Jesus out into the community.
If you'd like to find out more about Soul Sisters, you can find more information HERE.
Konos: Patience - Bread Comes To Life
Konos Character Trait: Patience
Theme: Wheat/Bread
One of the books we read to learn about wheat is, Bread Comes To Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat by George Levenson.
It is a great book for explaining to children about the process of making bread because it cover threshing wheat, grinding, making dough and baking. I thought Stuart would especially appreciate the beautiful photographs in the book so I asked him to read it to the kids after dinner.
I love listening to him read to my babies.
After reading, a ticklefest ensued which was possibly a stall tactic from the kids to avoid having to go to bed.
The book, Bread Comes To Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat is a simple book about the process of wheat to bread. It is a great book for kids but adults will enjoy it as well. It is available at Amazon.
Theme: Wheat/Bread
One of the books we read to learn about wheat is, Bread Comes To Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat by George Levenson.
It is a great book for explaining to children about the process of making bread because it cover threshing wheat, grinding, making dough and baking. I thought Stuart would especially appreciate the beautiful photographs in the book so I asked him to read it to the kids after dinner.
I love listening to him read to my babies.
After reading, a ticklefest ensued which was possibly a stall tactic from the kids to avoid having to go to bed.
The book, Bread Comes To Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat is a simple book about the process of wheat to bread. It is a great book for kids but adults will enjoy it as well. It is available at Amazon.
Bluebonnets
I love this time of year. Not only is the weather warming up and the grass is turning green but the bluebonnets are blooming all around us. It just makes me smile to see them along the sides of the road every where we go.
Yesterday we saw the most beautiful bluebonnets on Grapevine Lake.
Stuart got some great pictures of the kids. This is one of my favorites!
We tried to get more posed pictures but it was too hard for Rachel to sit still AND look at the camera AND smile so we gave up on that and just snapped pictures as they explored. Some of the best pictures of our kids are just simple candid shots.
There have been rumors that it is illegal to pick bluebonnets in Texas because it is our state flower. I checked on it and can confidently say that's a bunch of phooey! Now I don't typically let my children pick flowers because I want them to learn to leave nature they way they found it. However, a few bluebonnets aren't going to upset me....and it sure made for some cute pictures.
She has such a natural daintiness about her.
I love this next picture. It combines several features that I love (besides my kids and bluebonnets). I always love pictures of kids as they are walking away from the camera AND I love pictures of paths in nature.
In the next three pictures, Stuart was trying to get Rachel to walk towards him. I think she did it about 10 times but eventually got some cute shots out of it.
Nicholas is such a pro at posing and smiling for pictures. I guess that's what happens when your parents always have a camera in their hands.
We asked Rachel to sit down next to him (still trying to get that perfectly posed shot). She reluctantly did it but couldn't stop watching the boats on the water so she isn't exactly looking at the camera. Still a cute shot though.
Of course, I love this shot too. Nicholas first tried to give Rachel a kiss on the check but she crinkled up her face and pulled away. As we told her that wasn't nice, she eventually decided to make up for it by giving Nicholas a kiss.
Rachel found several ladybugs and carried them around with her as she walked. Poor ladybugs!
When did my little boy get so tall? He's growing up!
I love the sunlight glowing in Rachel's hair.
Beautiful!
We took these pictures in the late afternoon. The sun gave a wonderfully warm glow to the kids faces.
Rachel found the perfect walking stick.
I loved watching my little explorers wandering through the bluebonnets.
Nicholas found this log and thought it made for good scenery for a picture.
This picture is cute. Rachel looks so pensive. She is actually just tired of posing and is looking at some boat on the lake.
Bye for now!
Yesterday we saw the most beautiful bluebonnets on Grapevine Lake.
Stuart got some great pictures of the kids. This is one of my favorites!
We tried to get more posed pictures but it was too hard for Rachel to sit still AND look at the camera AND smile so we gave up on that and just snapped pictures as they explored. Some of the best pictures of our kids are just simple candid shots.
There have been rumors that it is illegal to pick bluebonnets in Texas because it is our state flower. I checked on it and can confidently say that's a bunch of phooey! Now I don't typically let my children pick flowers because I want them to learn to leave nature they way they found it. However, a few bluebonnets aren't going to upset me....and it sure made for some cute pictures.
She has such a natural daintiness about her.
I love this next picture. It combines several features that I love (besides my kids and bluebonnets). I always love pictures of kids as they are walking away from the camera AND I love pictures of paths in nature.
In the next three pictures, Stuart was trying to get Rachel to walk towards him. I think she did it about 10 times but eventually got some cute shots out of it.
Nicholas is such a pro at posing and smiling for pictures. I guess that's what happens when your parents always have a camera in their hands.
We asked Rachel to sit down next to him (still trying to get that perfectly posed shot). She reluctantly did it but couldn't stop watching the boats on the water so she isn't exactly looking at the camera. Still a cute shot though.
Of course, I love this shot too. Nicholas first tried to give Rachel a kiss on the check but she crinkled up her face and pulled away. As we told her that wasn't nice, she eventually decided to make up for it by giving Nicholas a kiss.
Rachel found several ladybugs and carried them around with her as she walked. Poor ladybugs!
When did my little boy get so tall? He's growing up!
I love the sunlight glowing in Rachel's hair.
Beautiful!
We took these pictures in the late afternoon. The sun gave a wonderfully warm glow to the kids faces.
Rachel found the perfect walking stick.
I loved watching my little explorers wandering through the bluebonnets.
Nicholas found this log and thought it made for good scenery for a picture.
This picture is cute. Rachel looks so pensive. She is actually just tired of posing and is looking at some boat on the lake.
Bye for now!
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