Happy Father's Day Dad!

My dad faithfully coached girls' softball at Parkview for 15 years. Here was the last year that I played...we won the championship that year!

Dad & us girls...don't you just love our hair!
Sara, Dad & me at MawMaw & PawPaw's house probably cooking jambalaya and playing washers

The girls, Dad, and Baby (our dog who was also a girl) at MawMaw & PawPaw's new house

Laura, Dad & me

me & Dad

me & Dad

I love you Dad! Thanks for all the work you do to help Craig & I and for your active participation with the kids. You know how much they love PawPaw!

Trinity VBS - Day 2

At the morning worship rally with Pastor Dale

For the morning snack we served yogurt, grapes,
and homemade granola made by Amy.

Can you guess what this is supposed to be?

My attempt at a cupcake mountain, lake and forest! LOL!

Here's the food we served for lunch...you can also see some of the decorations in the background

Hamburger patties that Craig grilled...he got a good deal from Ralph's Market...they pattied them and seasoned them for $1.69 a pound with no extra charge for the labor & seasoning.

Hotdogs grilled by Amy

vegetable tray

Broccoli butterfly & tomato ladybug

Kids in the craft room with Mr. AJ & Mrs. Christine...

AJ & Christine did a great job with their mountain scene

The following 2 pics were taken by Pastor Dale.


Wow, what a week! Now to get back to school work and other household chores! LOL!

Trinity VBS - Day 1

Not only did we have PBC VBS all week, but this weekend we did VBS at Trinity where the Shelbys attend.

I helped Amy in the kitchen...On Friday night's snack, we served cheese cubes

popcorn, and the trail mix that I had made with dried fruit, teddy grahams, Bug Bites, pretzel sticks, mini marshmallows, mini swirl chocolate chip, yogurt raisins, banana chips, goldfish, Aunt Annie's cheddar bunnies.
They use this VBS curriculum and it was a backpacking theme so Amy & I set up a campground scence in the corner of the room. Here's Luke & Tate lying down on the sleeping bag. Luke was laughing because the necklaces that they made in crafts was tickling his neck!

in front of the campground

silly boys

Cameron was old enough to go this year so Cai was his buddy

since Abram still had to go to the nursery

All the boys

Best Buds!

VBS Day 5

This is the craft we did for the day. They used their fingerprints and thumbprint to add eyes and a nose and then drew a mouth. Someone thought it was a dog but this was a koala bear that was on the clipart in Microsoft. I also added the verse Deuteronomy 13:4.

They also decorated a picture frame with the slide picture from the day before.

SW wearing the newsie hat and using the neck tie as a lasso

The snack that I brought for them that day: goldfish, marshmallows, pretzel sticks, and teddy "koala" grahams.

Cameron & LC during snack time

They're actually staying in line at the moment

ER & Luke on the swings

AW...look at those crystal eyes!

There's my Cameron Bob!

SW...always so serious looking!

ER & Luke playing in the rocks

What are you looking at?

Smile

Girls!

Slide pile up!

SW & Miriam

Making gravel angels?

She wanted to give me 5 for holding the door!

Sporting a play hat

AW showing me her stamped picture

VBS Day 4

Today our Bible story was about the disciples and how they had fished all night and caught nothing. But then Jesus told them to fish on the other side and their nets were full! They used the boxes for "boats" to fish from the magnetic puzzles that I brought. They played a game to see who caught the most fish first.

Miriam was in the boat that had a net and some toy fish.

She just thought it was funny to lean on the box and tip it over. Girlie, overboard!

Concentrating on fishing

coloring a picture related to the Bible story

anything to help them maybe recall the story later

They also made boomerangs out of cardboard and decorated them with the stickers that I got from Oriental Trading. The motto from the curriculum is that "It all comes back to Jesus!" So I printed these on labels for them to stick on their boomerangs.

The girls with theirs

The boys showing me theirs

Luke & ER on the swings

The playground that Luke was playing on was on the other side of the fence. He was giving Cameron some cool rock that he found.

The snacks for this day was Pop Ice popsicles...so we took our snacks outside to eat on the playground.

Miriam making sure she gets all of hers

LC driving the RV

AW climbing the rock wall

Miriam at the top of the rock wall

Cameron at the top of the rock wall

Miriam concentrating on the balance beam

Cameron hanging from the monkey bars

Notice Miriam is pushing Cameron off with her hip!

What a great group of kids!

an occurence that happens all through the day...putting on shoes...as soon as they would hit the classroom or playground, they would shed their shoes...I even had to ask a mom if her daughter could wear crocs/sandals so she could do the same!

They're supposed to be walking on the line...see how well they're following directions!

The other craft that we did this day was to make fish handprints. I've had this fish paper for years so i just used it...I also printed the verse Mark 1:17 on it.