Monday, July 6, 2009

VBS: Crocodile Dock, Part 2

Friday, June 12th brought us to the Finale Show of Crocodile Dock. The kids worked hard all week and put on a fabulous show. Jesse, however, suffered some stage fright and while he spent some time on stage singing, he mainly stayed in the pews with Daddy. Although he did sing the songs from there.

During the week, the girls battled the boys to see who could bring in the most money to give to one of our missionaries from Japan. It was a close race, but the girls came out on top!

Since the girls won, Mrs. Lora got to give Bro. Eric a pie in the face!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

VBS: Crocodile Dock, Part 1

The second week of June we had VBS at our church. The theme was Crocodile Dock. Since Jesse has been going through a very clinging to Mama no matter what phase, I was group leader for the toddlers. So I spent the week chasing about 8 toddlers around which was kinda like trying to herd ants, all while Jesse was hanging on me. Thankfully I had lots of help and the boys had a ball! Cute, cute fireflies. They put those little glow sticks inside to make them shine!I must really hand it to the men who told the Bible Story each night. They did a fabulous job of making it hands on and entertained all the kids. Trey said it was his favorite part every night.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

VBS: Operation Space

The first week in June we attended VBS at my in-laws church. The theme was Operation Space and the boys had a blast!!! We're still singing the "Blast Off" song.

Jesse squishing his beehive. We had talked about bees and how special God made them and how they have a gift that no other living thing has, just like we're all created special and unique by God.On Wednesday night, Mr. Phillip Murphy, superintendent of our school system and former NASA employee came and talked to the kids about the shuttle program. It was a very good talk, and Trey and I enjoyed it immensely. Jesse not so much:-) The funny side of this is that I can remember that when I was in first grade Mr. Murphy came and talked with us too.He demonstrated that you can heat up one of the tiles on the shuttle until it is glowing red, but that no heat will make it through to the back, therefore protecting the shuttle. It also dissipates heat very rapidly.Trey's ClassJesse had been wanting to bring his bag home all week. He was so happy to finally get it! Trey and his teacher, Mrs. Christy

5th Sunday Night Sing

May 31st brought the 5th Sunday night sing at church. The children sang several songs, including several that they had been working on for VBS! This was the first time that Jesse had sang with the choir, and I'm glad I videoed the first song, because he quickly lost interest in the singing and spent the remainder of the time seeing what interesting things he could find wandering around the "stage".

Here the kids are singing the "Ten Commandments Song".