A City Life For Me

Last week Elaine won the most Bible verses in her age group at VBS.  Though I knew kids could learn fast and easy, it reminded me just how much of a sponge my children are.  Ben was having fun pouring some silly things into our sponges this week – like nursery rhymes.  They didn’t know any – I guess I’m a bad mom! So get ready to chuckle and press repeat, because I think you will enjoy these renditions… Elaine – “There Was an Old Woman”; “Jack and Jill”; and “Humpty Dumpty” Nolan did “There Was an Old Woman” – after hearing Elaine say it only one time!   He added hand motions – all on his own – and just made me melt with his cuteness!

::Elaine’s First Pie – Blueberry!    :: Mustache Men :: Nehemiah’s Watermelon – picked clean! :: Nolan at the Eye Doctor – great vision! :: Nolan LOVES playing on his top bunk! :: This is how twins do book time…

We had a great week of Summer Adventure Club last week.  Our western theme was “Ridin’ Strong: Cross Canyon Trail”.  The kids learned lessons about the Christian’s walk with God – like Ridin’ Faithful, Ridin’ Courageous, Ridin’ Bold, etc. We had 50 different visitors throughout the week, and we averaged 51 kids per night.  The week got a slow start, but ended with a bang! Part of our evening presentation was a skit each night set in the Wild West town of Grand Junction.  Our teens, church staff, and summer intern did a fabulous job (with many late night practices) to put on this production each evening.  The conflict built all week until the resolution on Friday night.  The suspense helped the kids want to return each evening for SAC.  We never knew if Bad Bart (Ben) and his gang would succeed in stealing away the Friday Fair.  In the end, the Lone Stranger and Marshal Mellow prevailed – and Miss Polly even got asked to the Round-Up! Take a peek...

I have so many things to be thankful for.  Over the last couple of weeks I have intended to write a Thankful Thursday post, but I never got around to it.  So here is a conglomeration! --Our van broke down on June 30th.  Where I stopped was just inside the free 3 mile tow that we get from AAA to our mechanic.  I was thankful I didn’t get any closer to home, making my tow more expensive. --This week we are having our Summer Adventure Club (VBS) at Bethel.  There has been a lot of work put in by a lot of people.  I’m thankful for teens who are willing to step outside their comfort zone and look silly in a skit, and for their parents who bring them back and forth for practice. --We got free wood to build our set by picking up some plywood pallets off Craigslist.  We got the paint in the clearance section at Home Depot.  And there are artistic people at church who can draw and paint to make it actually look like a Western town – something I would ...

Little Curious Twins…finding the ice cubes! Nehemiah wishing he could go outside to play… Summer Adventure Club.  I guess I wasn’t watching Nolan very well – he was supposed to be sitting down and looking the other direction, like all of the other kids!

And a couple of shots of the “bigs” together… Nolan was about d.o.n.e. with pictures!

Today we went out and snapped a few pictures for Nolan's three year pictures.  He is NOT into standing still, smiling, or looking at the camera.  So this is what we came up with... How old are you Nolan?