we are the pancake masters

Another busy weekend for the Crowl fam

After many weeks of preparation, it was time for the Queen Anne Little League pancake fundraiser that Ben was in charge of organizing. Saturday morning we woke up at 4 am so we could be ready to start cooking pancakes at 5 am down in Queen Anne. Ben had spent the night dreaming about pancakes, so he was ready to go! I on the other hand was not quite as functional at that time in the morning. Here is a sample of our conversation:

4:00 am
Ben: All righty! Will you smell these jeans? Do you know where my deodorant is? Would you get the zip ties? Can we get some donuts?
Me: Please don't talk to me for another 15 min.

We spent the morning from 5-8 with 3 other people cooking a total of 1,000 pancakes. I had no idea I had the secret talent of flipping pancakes. I was on a roll! We got everything done around 8 and then headed over to the actual breakfast. Many of our friends showed up to help and we had a great time serving the community. One of the highlights of our time was when our friend Dan was trying to convince every kid that they wanted water over orange juice. At one point, some kid who decided he didn't want any food, only oj, turned to dan and said "you know what, you're freaky!" I guess he wasn't as convincing as he thought.

Ben was happy with the turn out especially since this was the first year. He even got interviewed for a local newspaper article. I'll post it as soon as it shows up. I'm so proud of my husby.

Saturday afternoon I went to a baby shower for my good friend Lindsey and her daughter Kaci Jean. I brought jalapeño popper spread and fruit salsa with cinnamon chips holy cow these were good. The food that everyone else brought was so delicious- I was thankful that I had only eaten a couple pancakes before! While at the shower, Ben went and played frisbee golf with some friends.

Here is Linds and her little one

Saturday night we fell asleep at 7:00 pm and woke up at 8:00. awesome. Sunday we went to church, cleaned our place, took a nap (as if 13 hours of sleep was not enough). I worked in the 5-9 year old room for the 5 pm service at church. My favorite quote of the night was when we were talking about serving others and the topic of complimenting others came up. This 5 year old said " I tell my mom she looks nice like a 1,000 times. She is really fancy sometimes" so cute!