Recent photos

The lighting at our church is not the best for photos without a lot of equipment (or a tripod which I forgot at home).  Anyway, here are some recent photos of the girls.  They are actually from last week!

I know most of you are gasping in shock.  Why don't you sit and take a few breaths... the photos will be here when you get back! :)

Love ya!

Over $1,400

And mostly pennies at that!

That is how much money the kids gave the week of VBS. The boys won the contest by bringing in 162 pounds of change. The girls were close with 142 pounds of change.

We sorted, rolled, and counted change for at least 3 hours each day. I worked with a wonderful lady whose name is also Julie. Her son Tyler helped much of the time as well. The duties ended up being fairly evenly split. I sorted as Julie & Tyler lifted the bags of money. Then they started rolling pennies as I finished the sorting. Once the sorting was done, I tackled the dimes. Julie mentioned the first day we worked together that she despised rolling dimes. I would much rather roll dimes than pennies, so it worked well for everyone.

I never realized though that 3 hours of handling money would be so exhausting!

Then Friday night, the kids put on a play for the parents. There were 5 main actors and in between each scene, the classes would come up and sing one of the songs they learned during the week. N & A did very well. Michael had to leave early for his drum lesson, but he was able to stay through most of the show.

The only problem is that in the rush to get out the door, I completely forgot to bring my camera. Please don't shoot me???

One day down, 4 to go

VBS is here! We got up bright and early to be to the church by 8:30. We were actually 15 minutes late because breakfast was served at 8:15.

Then the craziness began. I was helping with the office side of things. There was only one problem. I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing and the person who could tell me was no where to be found!

Finally we got down to business. Attendance. One word to describe it would be nightmare. Another word would be chaos. My sweet daughter A was enrolled in the wrong age group. Another child had 2 registration forms filled out. Several had used one form for more than one child. In all, we counted 150 registration forms and some how ended up with 147 being listed in the computer.

The absolutely worst part of all of this for me was that nothing was in any form of order. I will probably be sneaking in tonight to alphabetize the forms because I can't stand how they were just shoved into the folders.

So, one day down, four to go!