Evening on the water

The girls and I recently spent an evening with our good friends on the the local lake while Bud was gone on a work trip. We had an incredible time out on their boat. If the girls had their way we would be shopping for a boat tomorrow!!


















The girls and I recently spent an evening with our good friends on the the local lake while Bud was gone on a work trip.   We had an incredible time out on their boat.   I think the pictures speak for themselves.

What do you get

when you combine the end of the 5th grade and a favorite summertime pastime?  At our house, you get a pool party!   Destiny was going to have a pool party the last day of school but unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate and neither did our pool so we moved the party until today.   It was a group of her favorite friends their siblings and her sisters.   In the three hours they were here, they got out of the pool only long enough to eat hot dogs and then ice cream sandwiches.   I am sure that they are all sleeping soundly tonight.   

Destiny and her friend J

Sisters

Don't Run!!

It almost looks like the pool is in the middle of the woods

Abby's "not-so-happy" face

Goofing off

Friends

Siblings

All picture sessions end with the funny shot! 

Look At Me!

Maddie came home a few days ago with a grin bigger than life itself.  She said she had learned to ride a two wheeler while at the babysitter's.  I felt a bit sad because I was looking forward to her dad or I teaching her (Abby learned to ride a two wheeler from my dad's neighbor while we were up there with him right before he died) but my girl couldn't wait and so she learned at the sitter's. She begged her Daddy to take her training wheels off this morning and take her to the park so she could show off her mad skills.   She is so proud of herself but not as proud as we are.

Bedhead

Summertime bedhead
Lots of swimming the night before.
Wearing her Daddy's old Darlington t-shirt
Thirty years old
Held up pretty well
T-shirt, not her Daddy!

Not Your Mother's Vacation Bible School

Our church has an incredible children's program.   It is called KCRG which stands for:

  K now God

C hoose Well

R each Out

G o Tell

and it is truly what they try to teach the children every Sunday.   This week our church had a Family Worship Experience.   It was what many would call Vacation Bible School but it is the most incredible thing that I have ever been a part of.  We have a house band that rivals anything you see on television, a t-shirt and confetti shooter, flying candy, loud singing and dancing, a stage show, a short message and a time for each family to sit together and talk about what they have seen and heard.  It began last year with Stars in the House and this year continued with Treasures in the House.   The girls (and their friends) learned what their greatest treasure should be.    

The seven children we managed to get to Treasures in the House on Time

The big screen countdown. Thirty-one seconds to go

The musicians and worship leaders

Our musicians

On the Island of Treasures

This man valued money as his greatest treasure and turned into a treasure box

Leaving the Island of Treasures

The night's lesson, "When God Is My Treasure I Worship Him With My Whole Heart"

Our resident pirate with his t-shirt  shooter and the preschool program  director

The kids with the t-shirts they gave out.  They say, "My Greatest Treasure"

What I find interesting about the program is that it is not just a message that the children need to hear, it is a message that every adult needs to hear. 

 Where your treasure lies is where your heart is. Where does your treasure lie?

 

The life I was meant to live

Do you ever wonder if you somehow ended up in someone else's life?   Like you catch your self looking around one day and wonder how did I ever end up here?   

When I was a little girl I knew that I was going to end up with tall, dark and handsome guy and have dark-haired, dark-eyed children, one boy and one girl.   We were going to live in a house in the country (but not too far in the country) and I was going to stay home and my husband was going to go off to work in a suit with a briefcase in his hand.  There would never be a cross word spoken and the world would look like a Disney movie with singing birds and little woodland animals crossing our path.  

Funny how life turns out.  My guy is tall and handsome but he is blond.  Our two girl babies are dark-eyed but have light hair.  Our house isn't exactly in the country, I head off to work each day as a nurse (and I love my job) and my husband leaves in his all-white outfit and heads to work with a computer case, not a briefcase.  Cross words sometimes do get spoken and most days it definitely doesn't look like a Disney movie, more often like a before picture on Clean Sweep.   All I would need is a visit from the Super Nanny and the Dog Whisperer to make the picture complete.   

Yet it's my life and as much as I want to complain sometimes, it is a life that I am blessed to have.   And after much consideration I have to say that while I would change some things in my life, I wouldn't be in any other life if given the opportunity.