Family Day

 It's a new season for us. Lots of purging & pruning lately. We have so much to give thanks for... our time together is always one of those occasions.

What a beautiful day!

Pretty & Practical Project

  

5x7 Folded Card

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VBS/Lock-In 2012

The girls had their annual VBS & Lock-In at church. This year they combined the two events to create a 24 hr. VBS / Lock-In. The morning began with the bounce house and blow up slide inside our church sanctuary followed by outdoor activities. Then workshops and assorted stations were presented indoors throughout the day. The evening hours offered movies on the big screen, worship in the lobby, and the annual challenge to stay up all night. Those that couldn't make that challenge still had fun camping out on the floor inside the sanctuary. 

They were the first ones to arrive since I had to bring them early. There were no complaints though, of course with these awaiting them...

 Endless exercise...

No matter what age you are it seems you never tire of these super fun bounce houses.

There were two themes this year: "Crazy Hat" and "What you want to be when you grow up". They choose one boy & girl for each theme... each winner won $20.

In this picture you can see that Mia is an Artist and Madeline is a Farmer.

Mia won for the girls category of "What you want to be when you grow up".  So excited for her!

 Madeline's "Crazy Hat"

Madeline won the "Crazy Hat" category for the girls. Great job, sweetie!

She came up with this idea on her own and constructed it without any assistance. It was awesome to see her rewarded for all the hard work and creativity she put into this.

Mia's "Crazy Hat"

We used a chip-n-dip tray upside down and hot glued all the goodies onto it.

The total cost of materials from the Dollar store to create this... $7.

We are going to save this one as a fall decoration.

All the kids also got to create a t-shirt with paint to wear on Sunday morning to help lead Worship. You could really see how much love was poured into this and how dedicated they were to making this wearable art. What a keepsake!