we made it!!!

yes, we made it through! there were times i wasn't sure we would make it, but it happened. i'm talking about vbs. for four fun filled days, the girls have sang, played games, painted barns and listened to bible stories. it's funny because you don't realize how tired you are until its all over with. i have vowed that we will stay in jammies most of the day and i'm refusing to leave the house unless necessary. ahhh, the joys of the summer! nothing to do. this something which rarely happens around here so when it does we definitely need to take it!

the barns the kids did this week turned out beautifully. i'm so thankful that god blessed with me an awesome team of women and youth to the pull the project together. honestly there is no way it could have happened without each and everyone one of them. each person brought something different to the table and when all combined it was a well oiled working machine. we had 216 kids attend this week, so that is 216 barns plus a few more that had to be completed within four days...well done ladies!!!

here's a peak at the barns...they look so good! we ended with three lela's, lacey's and then the sample i made for everyone to see.





this is something one of the older kids wrote on the back of his barn...very profound, don't you think?
here are our three. lela's is the red one, lacey's is the blue barn and then well, mine is the light blue one in the back.

fruits of the spirit - vbs 2010

yesterday, we started yet another summer of vbs. this will be a little different for me because it's my first time not having an actual class ): i've been put in charge of arts and crafts and really looking forward to getting to do what i love best - art and creating. this year's project will be a wooden barn that the kids will paint and decorate. we will then attach a wooden stake and they will then become garden art for their families to enjoy.

our theme this year is fruits of the spirits (galatians 5:22-23)and everything revolves around farming. what a wonder theme! this past year i was fortunate enough to participate in a beth moore bible study involving the fruits of the spirit. i learned so much not only about myself but about the nine different spirits we have all been blessed with.

halfway there

i woke up this morning just feeling totally exhausted! i know i hit the snooze button at least a dozen times but i somehow managed to drag myself out of bed anyways. coffee and lots of it is what i need right now. this is what vbs does to me. it completely drains all the energy from my body and all the brain cells from my head, but it is fun. i can remember as a kid going and having so much fun making crafts, singing songs and learning about god. i think that is why i enjoy teaching vbs despite the fact my body wants to crash. it brings back such fun memories from my childhood and i want to pass that along to the girls as well. its so much fun to sing such songs as father abraham, deep and wide and b.i.b.l.e. just to name a few. i wish we could have "jammie" day today, but that's so not gonna happen....hopefully soon though!

vbs-camp e.d.g.e

experience & discover god everywhere is exactly what we are doing this week at vacation bible school. and every year i look forward to it with excitement and dread. talk about wearing you out. i always gain a new respect for teacher's after i spend just my measly four and 1/2 hours of herding kids from one activity to the next.

i'm having the pleasure of teaching one of the first grade classes this year. i've had this same group more or less since they were part of the four year olds, and every year they get easier and easier. it's been fun watching them as they grow. i absolutely can't believe how big some of them are getting. lela, of course, is part of my group. i honestly think she wouldn't know what to do if she wasn't in my class. i tried having her in a different class our first year and it didn't go so well. needless to say she has been in my class from then on.

lacey on the other hand is such a trooper. she had her very first day at vbs and was put into a group where she didn't really know any of the girls just a few of the boys. from what i was told by her teacher she was very talkative and would answer all the questions when they were asked. i was told to watch out because it appeared she would be valedictorian of the four year old class because she seems to know it all. lol.