What a week.....

After getting back from vacation last week, we had Revival at church all week. I love the week of fellowship, but it is very tiring and hard the week before school. There is no time to chill before you go back to school and no practicing going to bed early.

We finished the week of revival with an ice cream supper, and then all the kids from church went to Miss Haley's house for a swim.

This is sweet Haley.

Mischievous Mark

Summer was too short. We did not complete our bucket list. I think we got real close to swimming 100 times though.

Friday and Saturday was spent back to school shopping. Sunday was church and preparing to go back to school.

Today, I got up early and had a lust of things to do. GOT UP EARLY and STILL had to put my make up on once I dropped the girls off. I thought each girl would get up in a good mood and be excited about the first day of school. WRONG! Elizabeth was the only one excited. Leah cried all morning and was crying when I left her. REALLY?? Tomorrow she will be better. I hope.

Happy Independence Day!

A good weekend we have had. And thanks go to our Veterans and those currently fighting and serving our country so that we may be free!

Saturday night, after I got done working, I made an 4th of July ice cream cake for us to enjoy this weekend. I also smoked some duck on dad's smoker while the girls swam, AGAIN. (that would be 3 times on Saturday).

Yesterday was church day. We brought Harley home with us after church. We ate a wonderful lunch that mom made- Boston butt, potato salad, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, fried zucchini, squash, okra and potatoes, and eggplant. They invited our neighbor, Mr Ronnie, to join us for lunch. He provided much entertainment lots of stories from the past. The girls went swimming after lunch and we relaxed in the air conditioner

Even spot relaxed inside.

Harley went home and the girls spent the night with granny and pawpaw. Eric and I pretended we were old folks and put our pj's on and watched crime shows on TV.

So today, we slept in late and then Eric mowed and I went to moms to help with our lunch of hamburgers and watermelon. While starting the grill mom found this little feller-

This black snake was tangled up in netting and Robin Ann thought we should save him. I stick to my theory that the only good snake is a dead snake. But, Nnnnoooo- not Granny.

...and so the snake went free after granny cut the net away.

We ate our hamburgers and watermelon. I can hear thunder over across the field, but no rain yet. We still could use some. Here is our lovely temp in the shade. The temp on the bottom is how hot it is in mom and dads attic.

......well we got a nice shower!! After a day at mom and dad's, we went to Harrington Holler for fireworks. I also made homemade peaches and cream ice cream to take with us. Blake and Penny put on a very, Very impressive fireworks show. The girls sat on the doc of the pond and the boys shot the fireworks. Life is good!

Finally Rain!!

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).

The end of VBS

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.

Bible School Week

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.

Summer Bucket List

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. (:

Seems to be working well...

.....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.

Let's see how this works from the I-phone

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.