Thanks to God for our showers we had yesterday. It was WONDERFUL with temps dropping down to the upper 60's and 70's.
These are the precious clouds that formed yesterday morning.
And these are the dorks that sprouted up in my yard after about 3 hours of rain. (I think they dress just like this to irritate me).
Our weekend included restful days, cleaning out closets, and washing dishes. Sounds bad, but it was really nice.
Friday I slept in. It was nice. Then, while laying in bed, I got sucked into that awful trial of Casey Anthony. In my humble opinion, they need to throw the whole family under the bus. I'm just saying. After Eric got through running his errands, we all loaded up and went to Bryant to pick up some floor mats for the tahoe. While in Bryant we went ahead and purchased our groceries. We went to Bryant in my car. ( the trunk is full of my supplies for work, so all the groceries went up front with us. Leah loves cheese-balls as much as I did when I was young, and she found this big tub at Walmart. So thus- the above pictures on the way home. What you can't see is her arm wrapped around the tub.
Mom and dad have a beautiful garden and the above pictures are SOME of the fruits of their bounty. On Saturday I went over for lunch and was quickly sucked into washing dishes, while mom and dad canned and cooked. The girls had spent the night with them Friday night after bible school and so they were outside doing guess what?........
Saturday also consisted of cleaning out closets. There is no picture for that. Oh there could be because there are still piles of clothes in my bedroom floor, but I will leave it to your imagination. I currently have 2 1/2 large garbage bags of clothes for SOS and could give away more!!
Sunday was the typical Sunday. Church, lunch, more swimming for the kids and napping for me and Eric then back to church. The only difference was we went out to eat pizza at Larry's in town. Mom and dad usually cook, but were tired of cooking after cooking all week for bible school. They cook snacks for all the teaches every night of VBS. Yeah- we're spoilt!
So the end is here. One more night tonight. Eric and I have had a good class, only four at the most each night. Bradley and Kerri had as many as 11 one night- and all of them kindergartners or first graders. Bwahahahaha. I think the kids have enjoyed it to. I enjoy the memories my kids are making......
So tonight is closing program. Dad will give the Friday night lesson, then closing program, followed by what baptist do best....eat. We are having potluck tonight. Not your typical cookies and Kool-aide.
It's vacation bible school week at Shiloh. Vacation?? I think it was called this because of the time of the year when most bible schools are held. When I first started going to Shiloh, not THAT many years ago, bible school was a LONG week affair. Bible school was held in the morning and revival was at night. Revival started on Sunday night, VBS was in the morning, with a sermon by the revival evangelist preaching after bible school, then a sermon that night, and it ended on SATURDAY!! Oh we were so tired and so were the evangelist. Now our revival is a separate week and Monday thru Friday. Bible schools are usually held at night too since most teachers/moms work during the day. Here are a few pics from last night.
These are two of the kids in my class...
......some kids never grow up.
Leah and Tucker in refreshments......
.....Tucker not so happy. She looks so much like Bradley.
........Craft time.
I'm cooking for all the dad's tomorrow. The plan is fried deer tenderloin, corn, green beans, squash and zucchini, cucumbers and rolls. I'm debating on home-made rolls or going into Walmart and buy some of Sister Shuberts home made rolls. Considering that I have to be at church at 8 on the morning (for a bible school prayer breakfast)) and won't be home until almost 12, Sister Shuberts is sounding like the better plan! I'm cooking for my dad, Eric's dad, and Eric's brother Nathan's family. Oh my. I better get started quick!!
We are so blessed to have all these men in our lives and blessed that they are such good examples of what a daddy should be.
....couldn't find a pic of Erics dad. Maybe I'll get one tomorrow. Happy father's dad.
When school let out, the girls and I made a bucket list for summer. There are things on the list that I want the girls to do and there are things on the list that the girls wanted to do. For example, Elizabeth's idea - top of the list - swim 100 times. This was modified from 454 times. I had to show her the math on how hard it would even be to swim one hundred times and when I explained that we only had two and a half months of summer, this made her mad. (she enjoys school as much as her dad did as a child). Anyway....my contribution to the list included things like read 3 books, go to a play and go to 5 different state parks. Oh, and I can't forget my favorite, go out to eat ice cream. We have already marked that one off the list. (:
.....and then maybe not. I had a real nice post about our summer, then took picture of the girls in the pool AND CRASH. Lost it all. So first , I've posted a pic from last night that I spruced up with Instagram, and now writing a little and we will see what happens.
Just wanted to see if I could use this or blog from my iPhone This app claims to be able to upload pictures and I hope tis true.
Softball season ended last night. Elizabeth 's team had lost every game until last night. I said they should have got the dirty sock award, but truly they should have got the good spirit award. Every time they played AND lost they didn't care- they were just glad to be there, get to play, and have fun- unlike the parents and coaches who were dis-heartened and discouraged that once again we had lost. Last night was a cherry on their cupcake- they were so excited to win. They didn't care that they didn't get a large trophy, they were just glad to play well and win- and have fun.
