The girls are wanting to redecorate their rooms. Autumn and I aren't really much of decorators, so that really would be good to make them look really cute. Our deal was this: if they can keep their rooms clean, then we can pick some things out to put on the walls. Autumn has been looking at some of those sticker decoration things to make it cute. So the girls have been talking non-stop about exactly what they want on their walls. And you have to know that there are two rooms, so there are two girls in each room. So the ideas:
M changes her mind all of the time. She wants blue, then she wants cars, then she wants rock n' roll or high school musical, then she wants cowgirl......can't really make her mind up.
S wants princess.....She wants blue because of Cinderella and she wants a princess room.
H has a very detailed image in her mind of exactly what she wants her room to look like, but I just don't know if we can see the image well enough to make it just like it. She wants 80's rock. Yep, 80's rock....I don't know where she came up with that one, and that is not what I would guess for her, but that is what she wants. On one wall, in gold or silver, she wants drums, on the other wall she wants a guitar. She is so funny and hasn't left the idea of 80's rock...she is stuck on that one.
A.....well, Autumn asked them tonight if they could only put one thing on their wall, what would it be? A's answer................either a picture of Elvis or Jesus!
So these will be some interesting rooms, but honestly, I am really thinking they aren't going to hold up their end of the deal in keeping their rooms clean!..............we shall see!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
VBS
We had VBS last week and had tons of fun. We had a lot of kids and it was just a great week. I will say that I am relieved just a bit that it is over....it is sad that it is over because I love it, but it is a relief because I am just glad to know it went well and not have to worry about it.
Here is H and her friend....they both look so pretty!
S and her new friend........both sweet little girls and both just a little mischievious!
A is hanging out before we started.
Our theme was Saddle Ridge Ranch, so each night we had theme nights. We had crazy cowboy hat night, belt buckle night, etc. This was rodeo animal night. A was a bull dog. She likes dogs and a bull goes to a rodeo. She had a collar for the dog, and made horns for the bull. She was afraid people would laugh at her, so she wouldn't wear the whole thing.
This is from Rodeo clown night. Autumn let them pick whatever they wanted to wear for rode clown night. They looked on the internet to see examples and then set to work. Every other day, A brings in totally unmatching outfits begging to wear them. The ONE day that she can pick a mis-matched outfit, she chooses something that matches! It took a while, but she finally got into the whole mis-matched thing.
Here's the fam. Autumn was a good sport and dressed as a rodeo clown, but I chose to just wear the hat.
Once she put the outfit on, she became a clown. One of the girls said that the clowns can't talk, so she turned into a mime. I was laughing SO hard, and she enjoyed getting to put on a show for me!
Here is little miss piggy for rodeo animal night. For a long time she has liked me to call her Mommy's little piggy, so this totally fit her!
All week, we raised money for an organization that does orphan care in Africa. We had a little contest, and each of the four of us had a bucket. (The four of us is our staff minus our pastor. left to right: me, Mark the music minister, Tyler the youth minister and Mike the associate pastor.) The person that got the most money at the end of the week got a "cow pie" in the face. We ended up raising over $1000 and we all tied, so we each got 10 pies. We had lots of fun, and we drew kids' names at random to give us pies. It did look pretty nasty!
I like the expressions on both of our faces! It is pretty funny!
S happened to get called. That does look pretty gross.....it really looks like cow pooh!
The cow pies were made with chocolate pudding, cool whip, oat meal, and green food coloring. Tons of fun!!!!!!!!! I love VBS!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
splish splash
We went to a splash park in a nearby town a couple of times recently with different friends each time. This thing is so cool...it's free and very fun. They just have sprinklers and different water shooters and buckets that dump water. The girls had a ton of fun. I took my underwater camera, so I had tons of fun too!
I like this picture....as you can see...M is pushing S to stand under the exact place where she knows the water is about to dump out of the bucket. Just look at her face...you can almost hear the evil laugh come out of her! And S is having fun just anticipating the water. A is looking for her bucket to dump, and our friend O is just taking it all in!
I love this.....you can tell so much of the story without the face...seeing them holding hands shows how much fun they have with their friends!
They huddled up together waiting for the water to drop.
We also went with another friend, L, and cousin B, and his friends.
B had fun! He liked walking around and getting wet!
Well, at first he liked getting wet, then he wanted to just run around. When we went the first time, Autumn went to gather the girls up to go home. Autumn and I had both stayed pretty dry...that is until she quickly got out of the way of the kid shooting the water....only to step under the bucket right when it dropped! So when we went back with cousin B, she was careful to stay out of the bucket's way. B had gotten tired of getting wet, so she was trying to get him to just walk around and have fun. She was trying to show him how you walk through the whole thing and not get wet, but just walk around and see everybody. That is when the fountain turned on right when she was on it.....yep, got her wet, but did NOT get B wet....she blocked him!
So he started running around on his own. He would go and sit on the fountain (when it was off) and go step on others, stand right under the buckets, etc. We were waiting for those fountains to come on when he was on it, or buckets to drop on him, but EVERY time he walked away, the fountain would come on. It NEVER came on when he was on the fountain. He NEVER got wet...after he decided to not get wet anymore. And every time he was on the fountains and such, we would laugh and laugh because we thought he was about to get wet, but he thought it was great because he thought we were laughing at him!
We had SO much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I like this picture....as you can see...M is pushing S to stand under the exact place where she knows the water is about to dump out of the bucket. Just look at her face...you can almost hear the evil laugh come out of her! And S is having fun just anticipating the water. A is looking for her bucket to dump, and our friend O is just taking it all in!
I love this.....you can tell so much of the story without the face...seeing them holding hands shows how much fun they have with their friends!
They huddled up together waiting for the water to drop.
We also went with another friend, L, and cousin B, and his friends.
B had fun! He liked walking around and getting wet!
Well, at first he liked getting wet, then he wanted to just run around. When we went the first time, Autumn went to gather the girls up to go home. Autumn and I had both stayed pretty dry...that is until she quickly got out of the way of the kid shooting the water....only to step under the bucket right when it dropped! So when we went back with cousin B, she was careful to stay out of the bucket's way. B had gotten tired of getting wet, so she was trying to get him to just walk around and have fun. She was trying to show him how you walk through the whole thing and not get wet, but just walk around and see everybody. That is when the fountain turned on right when she was on it.....yep, got her wet, but did NOT get B wet....she blocked him!
So he started running around on his own. He would go and sit on the fountain (when it was off) and go step on others, stand right under the buckets, etc. We were waiting for those fountains to come on when he was on it, or buckets to drop on him, but EVERY time he walked away, the fountain would come on. It NEVER came on when he was on the fountain. He NEVER got wet...after he decided to not get wet anymore. And every time he was on the fountains and such, we would laugh and laugh because we thought he was about to get wet, but he thought it was great because he thought we were laughing at him!
We had SO much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Bible Stories: our version
We had a fun and relaxing (lazy) day after a busy week and we topped the day off with an evening at our friend Becky's house. Skip grilled while we swam, then we all enjoyed the yummy food together. On our way home, A shared some of the Bible stories she has learned. I think it started out with a story from VBS, but it turned out to be her summary of the Bible, and our entertainment for the night!
Creation:
When that man God made first was runnin' around, he started naming those animals. But he got the rabbit and fox confused and called the rabbit a fox and the fox a rabbit. Then the servant had legs but they brought that fire cross out, I mean the sword and threw it on the ground but the servant had legs, but God made it not have legs and crawl on the ground.
H: It's SERMON, not servant!
Me: No, it's serpent.
A: Ok, well the servant (her and Autumn argued about that a minute) had to crawl on the ground with no legs.
Good Samaritan:
There were those two mean men and they saw the good guy walkin' so they hit him and took all of his clothes. He was hurt real bad so the shepherd came by (she knew it was the shepherd cause he looked like a shepherd because of his shepherd clothes). The shepherd wrapped him up in sticks and that wrapping stuff and took him to a dungeon because he was hurt.
Noah:
Noah was the one who was on that big ship, and there was a deer that got hit by the storm and he died. But he took some people on that ship so they were ok. He sent out that crow and he was afraid of the water so he came back, so then Noah sent out that white bird and he did good.
Jonah:
Jonah told those other men to throw him in the water and they did cause he didn't do what God wanted so God sent a big blue fish to come and eat him for a lot of days. Then after I don't know how many days, that fish shot him out of his mouth and he was okay.
Joseph:
Joseph got a nice coat that had a lot of colors on it and he got it from his dad, but his brothers didn't like it so they threw him in a big pit to die. But someone came by with a stick to get him out, but they weren't very nice to him with that stick.
David and Goliath:
There was an army of Samaritans and they didn't like the people from Samaria, so they went to fight them every day. They said one two three four every day, but no one wanted to fight because they were real sholdiers (soldiers). But then that boy came out to fight the big guy (later she called him the giant) and he put a rock in it and swung it 15 times then it went and killed him down.
Daniel and the Lions:
Daniel wouldn't pray to anyone but God so they put him in that hole. The mean guys put him in that hole, not his brothers. The mean guys didn't want him to pray to God. Then the lions were there and they were nice to him because God made the big lion nice and the big lion told the other lions to be nice. So they were nice to Daniel and when Daniel left, they were mean again because they were hungry.
The fiery furnace:
Those three guys wouldn't do what the king wanted because the king wasn't doing what God wanted, so they put them in the fire and God kept them safe. They all died but the angel brought them back to life and saved them. And they didn't get poked or bruises or anything!
Okay, so we have some work, but she is on her way......just a little confusion!!! It was SO funny!!!
Creation:
When that man God made first was runnin' around, he started naming those animals. But he got the rabbit and fox confused and called the rabbit a fox and the fox a rabbit. Then the servant had legs but they brought that fire cross out, I mean the sword and threw it on the ground but the servant had legs, but God made it not have legs and crawl on the ground.
H: It's SERMON, not servant!
Me: No, it's serpent.
A: Ok, well the servant (her and Autumn argued about that a minute) had to crawl on the ground with no legs.
Good Samaritan:
There were those two mean men and they saw the good guy walkin' so they hit him and took all of his clothes. He was hurt real bad so the shepherd came by (she knew it was the shepherd cause he looked like a shepherd because of his shepherd clothes). The shepherd wrapped him up in sticks and that wrapping stuff and took him to a dungeon because he was hurt.
Noah:
Noah was the one who was on that big ship, and there was a deer that got hit by the storm and he died. But he took some people on that ship so they were ok. He sent out that crow and he was afraid of the water so he came back, so then Noah sent out that white bird and he did good.
Jonah:
Jonah told those other men to throw him in the water and they did cause he didn't do what God wanted so God sent a big blue fish to come and eat him for a lot of days. Then after I don't know how many days, that fish shot him out of his mouth and he was okay.
Joseph:
Joseph got a nice coat that had a lot of colors on it and he got it from his dad, but his brothers didn't like it so they threw him in a big pit to die. But someone came by with a stick to get him out, but they weren't very nice to him with that stick.
David and Goliath:
There was an army of Samaritans and they didn't like the people from Samaria, so they went to fight them every day. They said one two three four every day, but no one wanted to fight because they were real sholdiers (soldiers). But then that boy came out to fight the big guy (later she called him the giant) and he put a rock in it and swung it 15 times then it went and killed him down.
Daniel and the Lions:
Daniel wouldn't pray to anyone but God so they put him in that hole. The mean guys put him in that hole, not his brothers. The mean guys didn't want him to pray to God. Then the lions were there and they were nice to him because God made the big lion nice and the big lion told the other lions to be nice. So they were nice to Daniel and when Daniel left, they were mean again because they were hungry.
The fiery furnace:
Those three guys wouldn't do what the king wanted because the king wasn't doing what God wanted, so they put them in the fire and God kept them safe. They all died but the angel brought them back to life and saved them. And they didn't get poked or bruises or anything!
Okay, so we have some work, but she is on her way......just a little confusion!!! It was SO funny!!!
Pink eye
Sorry I haven't posted much. We had VBS all week, so it has been crazy busy at our house. We had a great VBS! I will post pictures of the girls from VBS later, but for some weird reason, I thought of a random story from a few years ago, so I will share that while I am thinking of it, because it is funny and I want to remember it.
About 4 years ago....we just had M in our home. She woke up one morning and her eye was kind of pinkish. I worked in a daycare and I work with kids all the time, you know, so I am SURE this is probably pink eye, but it MIGHT be allergies, so we will give it a day or so. It didn't have goo coming out of it yet, so.......hmm.........M wouldn't even hardly let us get near it. She didn't trust right away.
We took her to daycare, and when I picked her up, her eye was still pink. When she woke up the next morning, yep, still pink WITH gunk coming out, so we called the dr. and told her that M had pink eye.....no doubt about it, because remember, we have worked at daycare centers and KNOW what pink eye looks like. We work with kids, and just KNOW what pink eye is!
The dr. called in the pink eye medicine for us.....whew! That was easy! Hey Autumn, we are pretty good at this foster parent thing! So Autumn go the eye drops and brought them home....now just for getting them IN M's eye! We got the first drops in.......took two of us, but got them in!
The next morning Autumn went to work, so I was flying solo with getting the drops in....so I went in and woke her up, then went right for it....that way she didn't have time to wake up and fight me hard! So here I am, holding her hands down, talking calmly to her while trying to shove eye drops in her eyes. She was blinking a lot, and I was trying to pry her eyelids open long enough to get these things in.....and that's when I saw it....
What is that?
Is that a bubble from the drops?
What is that?
Girl........be still..........I'm trying to see what that is!
What is that?
OH.
MY.
GOODNESS!!!!!!!
That is a SEQUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be still!
I can't get it!
GIRL...........BE STILL!!!!!!!!
Got it!
Yep.....that is a sequins!
How in the WORLD did you live with a sequins in your eye?
This was not glitter, not a little piece of sparkle, no, this was almost as big as a contact, full out goes on a dress, sequins!
How in the world did she do that? I mean really, when I get a piece of dirt, or a spec of anything in my eye, it hurts like crazy! How did she do that? Who IS this girl?
"M, why did you put that in your eye?"
"Cause I want to be like you!"
Oh my.....she had seen us put contacts in our eye, and this little clear sequins did resemble a contact, except that it was kind of jagged and bumpy, and had to hurt her eye so bad!
Ok, so I guess that is when I realized you NEVER know what will happen with little ones....NEVER!!!!!!!!!!
About 4 years ago....we just had M in our home. She woke up one morning and her eye was kind of pinkish. I worked in a daycare and I work with kids all the time, you know, so I am SURE this is probably pink eye, but it MIGHT be allergies, so we will give it a day or so. It didn't have goo coming out of it yet, so.......hmm.........M wouldn't even hardly let us get near it. She didn't trust right away.
We took her to daycare, and when I picked her up, her eye was still pink. When she woke up the next morning, yep, still pink WITH gunk coming out, so we called the dr. and told her that M had pink eye.....no doubt about it, because remember, we have worked at daycare centers and KNOW what pink eye looks like. We work with kids, and just KNOW what pink eye is!
The dr. called in the pink eye medicine for us.....whew! That was easy! Hey Autumn, we are pretty good at this foster parent thing! So Autumn go the eye drops and brought them home....now just for getting them IN M's eye! We got the first drops in.......took two of us, but got them in!
The next morning Autumn went to work, so I was flying solo with getting the drops in....so I went in and woke her up, then went right for it....that way she didn't have time to wake up and fight me hard! So here I am, holding her hands down, talking calmly to her while trying to shove eye drops in her eyes. She was blinking a lot, and I was trying to pry her eyelids open long enough to get these things in.....and that's when I saw it....
What is that?
Is that a bubble from the drops?
What is that?
Girl........be still..........I'm trying to see what that is!
What is that?
OH.
MY.
GOODNESS!!!!!!!
That is a SEQUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be still!
I can't get it!
GIRL...........BE STILL!!!!!!!!
Got it!
Yep.....that is a sequins!
How in the WORLD did you live with a sequins in your eye?
This was not glitter, not a little piece of sparkle, no, this was almost as big as a contact, full out goes on a dress, sequins!
How in the world did she do that? I mean really, when I get a piece of dirt, or a spec of anything in my eye, it hurts like crazy! How did she do that? Who IS this girl?
"M, why did you put that in your eye?"
"Cause I want to be like you!"
Oh my.....she had seen us put contacts in our eye, and this little clear sequins did resemble a contact, except that it was kind of jagged and bumpy, and had to hurt her eye so bad!
Ok, so I guess that is when I realized you NEVER know what will happen with little ones....NEVER!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
A special place
We got to go to Falls Creek to visit our aunt and cousin and our church. I have so many special memories at Falls Creek, so it was fun to get to share those things and memories with the girls. This picture reminds me so much of my childhood. When we went to Falls Creek with my parents, all of those youth girls toted us around! The youth girls carried our girls around, curled their hair, and doted on them!
There is a memorial for my mother there. It was a special place for us to be together and share some memories of her..........LOVE that!
I love this picture.....it somehow makes a connection of my mother to the girls........I really love this picture. I like it better than smiling faces around it.........I love this!
Don't get me wrong.......I like this one too, especially since we don't get a lot of pictures with all six of us.
LOVE this one........I have SO many GREAT memories of lining up to get icees with my grandmother at Falls Creek. The difference is......notice they have TWO dollars in their hands.....much different than the 50 or 75 cents we paid.
M enjoying an icee.
We took them up to the prayer gardens, which is special because my grandpa helped get that there. They loved looking at it, but they were a little confused. You see, we saw my grandpa a few days before we went to Falls Creek, but when we saw this, S started freaking out and saying, "What happened to him? We saw him just yesterday! Why did him die?"
They thought this was a grave site, so we quickly told them why his face was on the plaq.
Praying..........LOVE that!
Becky and H relaxin.
There is a memorial for my mother there. It was a special place for us to be together and share some memories of her..........LOVE that!
I love this picture.....it somehow makes a connection of my mother to the girls........I really love this picture. I like it better than smiling faces around it.........I love this!
Don't get me wrong.......I like this one too, especially since we don't get a lot of pictures with all six of us.
LOVE this one........I have SO many GREAT memories of lining up to get icees with my grandmother at Falls Creek. The difference is......notice they have TWO dollars in their hands.....much different than the 50 or 75 cents we paid.
M enjoying an icee.
We took them up to the prayer gardens, which is special because my grandpa helped get that there. They loved looking at it, but they were a little confused. You see, we saw my grandpa a few days before we went to Falls Creek, but when we saw this, S started freaking out and saying, "What happened to him? We saw him just yesterday! Why did him die?"
They thought this was a grave site, so we quickly told them why his face was on the plaq.
Praying..........LOVE that!
Becky and H relaxin.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Oh, this girl!
Just from reading the title, which girl do you think I am talking about? Yes.......it is about A, sweet, question-asking, tender-hearted A. Yesterday morning for church, the youth group had their share time from Falls Creek youth camp. It was a great service. God did great things in these kids lives and it was fun to hear about it all. So I am sitting by A, and during one of the songs all of the kids who got saved at camp lined up and one by one went to the microphone and quickly said, "My name is _________ and I got saved at camp" or "I am ___________ and I gave my life to Christ and got saved" or something to that sort. Well, about 7 or so had gone (there were a lot saved!) and A leans over to me and in her "whisper" that is really more like talking, but kind of a little louder than talking because it is whispering and talking, so it magnifies her already raspy voice.....she said, "well, what are they all getting saved from?" It was pretty funny because the question didn't sound like it was out of curiosity as much as out of irritation! I think she was a little irritated that they were all saved but didn't even say what they were saved from! I love to see things from her perspective! It is so different than mine!
After our VBS kickoff, which was so much fun, we were picking things up and getting things ready for VBS to start. The girls just find something to do while we are there. The little girls found our friend Emily, who is teaching S's class this week. So they were "helping" Emily do all sorts of things.........thanks Emily for letting them bug, I mean help you! So anyway, while they were in there decorating, A was asking a ton of questions........this surprises you right? She asked what everything was, and whatever else she asks about things. Emily was putting up some bull horns for decoration because we have a ranch theme. So this is the conversation (as I remember Emily telling me it went):
A: Did those come from an animal?
Em: yep.
A: Oh, was it a cow?
Em: No, it was a dog.
A: Noooooo..........dogs don't have horns........unless it is a bulldog!
Oh, I laugh every time I hear that! Oh, that girl.........I love her!
I do promise that I will get up pictures soon.....well, I will get them up sometime, hopefully soon!
After our VBS kickoff, which was so much fun, we were picking things up and getting things ready for VBS to start. The girls just find something to do while we are there. The little girls found our friend Emily, who is teaching S's class this week. So they were "helping" Emily do all sorts of things.........thanks Emily for letting them bug, I mean help you! So anyway, while they were in there decorating, A was asking a ton of questions........this surprises you right? She asked what everything was, and whatever else she asks about things. Emily was putting up some bull horns for decoration because we have a ranch theme. So this is the conversation (as I remember Emily telling me it went):
A: Did those come from an animal?
Em: yep.
A: Oh, was it a cow?
Em: No, it was a dog.
A: Noooooo..........dogs don't have horns........unless it is a bulldog!
Oh, I laugh every time I hear that! Oh, that girl.........I love her!
I do promise that I will get up pictures soon.....well, I will get them up sometime, hopefully soon!
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