Our first meeting of the year......

OPEN HOUSE!! We are very excited to have our open house and first meeting on September 13 at 9AM.  This will be very informal since it's our first of the year.  If you want to meet other moms and see if MOPS is for you, come visit!  We'll have breakfast, childcare down the hall, chat, and tell you a little about MOPS.  If your child is still a baby, feel free to keep them with you in the "meeting", we all have at some point and totally understand!  We have places to nurse if you need to, an outdoor playground, we provide snacks and drinks for the kids or you can bring your own if you rather.  The childcare workers are very sweet ladies who don't mind coming to tell you if you're needed by your little one, or you can let them know if some tough love is best for a few minutes so your child can know it's okay to be away from you, you'll come back!  For many of our kids this is their first experience away from you, and we all sympathize and understand! That's the great thing about MOPS, we've been through what you're going through, be it potty training, biting, separation anxiety, refusing naps, or the simple joys in life like snuggles in the morning from your angel.  We love being moms, and our little twice a month break for a few hours.  We hope to see you in a few weeks!
Here's the website for our host church, First Presbyterian Church of La Grange, and thanks to them for letting us meet there.
http://www.firstpresbyterianlagrange.com/index.php

Moms Night Out

We are having a mom's night out on Wednesday, August 22 at Bistro 108 at 6:30.  Get to know our group and see if you'd like to join MOPS this year! We'd love to meet new moms.

Steering team retreat

We had our annual steering team retreat in June and thanks to Katie's mom for letting us use her package for a weekend condo in Rock Port!   We stayed at the cutest place, got to shop, swim, and enjoy our weekend planning speakers, meeting dates, service projects, and other details.  A good time was had by all.  Even baby Samuel!

After seeing the neighbors blue lagoon a certain MOPS leader had to get one. 

So we drove to Corpus to get one.

And after our pump ran out of batteries, these lovely ladies swam it over to some helpful people who inflated it with their shop vac for us.  We tied it up, sat and relaxed, until a fish tried to take a bite out of  Amie from underneath.

 Not sure it was really for four adults once we got in and tried to paddle down the canal.  Amie and I got a work out, and barely went anywhere, but had fun trying.

We had a good time, and indulged in lemon cake balls, oreo balls, and ice cream cake.  Then we paid for it after we got home!  Thanks for a fun weekend ladies!