Camp - Day 4

On Hawaiian Night Caleb and Richard won the egg toss competition for their team. Their team, the Jokers, would go on to win the 'Olympics.' The did relay races and several other games. Blake and Jackson's luck wasn't quite as good!

Camp - Day 3

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This was my Bible class, nothing fancy, an open room. I sat on the stage and the thirty-two 6th graders in my class sat in a circle in the floor in front of me. For this particular lesson the pretty packages on the shelf behind me have various objects in them. The fancier packages have rocks, or dog biscuits etc. in them. The plainer, not so attractive packages have nicer gifts. The lesson being you can't judge things by the cover. I wish everyone who reads this could know the kids we took from our congregation. They are awesome. I love, love, love teaching these kids. They have such a desire to do what is right.

Camp - Day 2

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Church camp this year was at a new camp near Waco. The camp was very pretty, but in August, camp in Texas is HOT! On Monday it was 111 degrees, it felt every bit of it! We took thirteen 6th graders to camp, nine boys and four girls . Everyone of the kids are awesome kids. I have had the awesome privilege of teaching this group Bible at camp for the last four years. I wouldn't trade it for anything!

Wyoming Fire

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This is a forest fire that was burning about 40 miles from my brother, Michael’s home in Wyoming. Michael didn’t take these photos, but they have a friend who is part-time forest ranger. Aren’t they amazing!

Home Depot Day

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The first Saturday of the month is Home Depot Day. It's a great program for children 3 to 13 to create and build items with a parent. When the little kids were younger, Jon and I would each pair up with a child and help them construct their masterpiece. They are now old enough to read the instructions and build their creations. Today was an Olympic flag holder. Sissy and I shopped the clearance shelves while they were busy!

Silliness

Jon is getting on to me that I haven't updated the blog this week! He checks it from work to see what we do while he's gone!! This weekend Caleb and I leave for church camp. I'll be teaching Bible to the 6th grade kids. I've spent most of this week preparing my Bible lessons, and getting materials together.

I can't wait, I love going to camp with the kids! We went all those years with Frankie while Jon was the Youth Deacon in Oklahoma, it brings back so many fun memories. Frankie's best church/campfire buddy growing up, Alicia, sent an invitation to her baby shower this week! We're old! Hard to believe Frankie and Alicia will be 23 this month!

I was showing the little kids pictures of Frankie and Alicia when they were little. I came across this school picture of Frankie in the 2nd grade. I showed it to Abigail and explained this is Sissy when she was your age. My little tom-boy Abigail, looked at it and said, "You won't have to worry about getting our pictures confused!" Hmm, contrast the PINK dress with puffy sleeves, lace collar, pearls and curls with the picture below of Abs with he tongue sticking out playing PlayStation pulverizing Storm Troopers.

Girl Time

Baylor Boo spent the night with Abs. With Jess being here for three weeks, Abs was ready for some girl time. We hung out at the pool, played PlayStation, and watched Hannah Montana. Caleb spent the night with Blake for more boy time.

'Board' Meeting

While the boys went to Oklahoma to watch BJs game, the girls went with me to our home school groups Board of Director's meeting. The kids enjoyed swimming and diving. After the meeting, I enjoyed a little hot tub time while chatting with Donna. Who knew a 'board' meeting meant 'diving board.' I bet we would have more volunteers, if they only knew!

BJ's Tournament

Jon drove Jess back to Oklahoma in time to see his brother, our other nephew, play ball in a tournament. BJ's school is a 4A team but played up to the 6A division and did fairly well. My understanding that was in the double-elimination play-off they won four games. Jess and Caleb enjoyed the game, and judging by Caleb's cheek, they enjoyed some sunflower seeds too!

'Fun'-tastic Friday

Jess & Caleb participated in Fun-tastic Friday today with the other 6th-8th graders at church. They broke up into teams and competed in a game called BIGGER or Better. Each team began with one penny and had an hour and a half to trade for something BIGGER or Better. They had to make at least five trades. The winner would be the team with the BIGGEST or Best item at the end.

1. Caleb and Jess' team traded their penny for $1 with a lady at CVS.
2. Traded the $1 for a can of pineapples at a ladies house.
3. Traded pineapples for a large can of sliced tomatoes.
4. Traded the tomatoes for a carton of mangoes.
5. Traded two mangoes for a large pizza.

So their final items were a carton of mangoes (minus 2) and a Large Pizza. The winning team's trades went like this:

1. They traded the penny for a carton of Dr. Pepper with the Dr. Pepper guy at Quik Trip.
2. Traded the carton of Dr. Pepper for $70 with a guy driving a Hummer at a construction site.
3. Traded the $70 for an ice chest full of drinks and snacks with a realtor at an Open House.
4. Traded the ice chest for 3 brand new remote control cars.
5. Traded the remote control cars for a TV with DVD player.

Only in Plano, in 90 minutes could you go from one cent to a TV with DVD player, . . . oh, oh and they got the 'Over the Hedge' DVD too! After our BIGGER or Better game we watched 'The Bee Movie' and finished the day with a game of Killer.