7.10.2017

Summer Rolls On!

The last of the schedule snapshots sent to our runner Grandma - I bet she is loving July - no more of these full days!

And this dear soul.  Would you take a look at that sweet thing running grandma's weedeater
in his {slightly} too small muscle shirt and gum boots?
I love these pics taken while I am at work.

And DH squeezed in a project with Cole.
He wanted to surprise his girlfriend with a new cedar chest, and while the finished project is distressed white and I don't have a picture - I still wanted to document that he and Cole did great on Cole first big wood project!
And we finished up a new product reset at work and I am loving the uniform look of the new product line!
And this.
Our dear cousin Brittany has been a pretty sick girl this summer
and it all came on pretty sudden about 3 weeks ago.
We love her and her family - were able to squeeze in a great visit at Riley with them
and also now that they have been home.  
It is an encouragement to visit them - despite her meds and oxygen they carry on 
{were watching scary movies when I stopped out on Saturday night like teenagers do}
We are prayerful that God will prepare her body for a transplant as her mom shares below.

Much summer work is fit in between the crops
Grandma and Grandpa poured a new driveway and these guys worked to fill in the sides.
Sam looks so old in this picture.  He worked hard.

And didn't miss an opportunity to practice to basketball when we got home that afternoon.
That hip-barn-roof-three-point line is coming in handy {wink}!
And since it was mom's day off, Joe had a project lined up for her...hanging up his most treasured items.  He had them all laid out and ready!



And just in case you wondered where that baseball champ ring ended up...
it is being guarded by some fierce creatures.
We are always fitting in a swim here and there.
Joe and I played dive sticks this day.
Nothing that I love more than a relaxing few minutes in the water with ma' boys!
We celebrated Andre's 15th birthday with him a the city pool.
They has swam just the right amount of time when a storm came thru and forced us all together in the building -perfect time for presents and snacks!

7.02.2017

VBS 2017

I can't believe I hadn't posted about VBS yet!
We had fun at bible school this year - can't you tell from my silly grin?
SIL Shannon was the teacher for our K2 group and I was the measly helper.
Some nights I had to work so I was not early to the VBS event, ha!

These kiddos were fun though, been awhile since I had a Kindergartner = they were most satisfied by our simple puppet show.  I loved that they knew I was the puppet but still wanted to believe the puppet was real.  

I remembered that Chris had a Break the Ice game and it perfectly filled in the gaps during one of the sessions.  It provided a lot of giggles.

I made a simple igloo, seen here, to help with the room decorations.



This was simply cardboard trimmed with a box cutter, white spray paint,
 and blue painters tape!


We were very proud of Joe for his resolve in learning his lesson verses AND a challenge section of verses to earn a special Walmart gift card.  Since there were not many that were able to do it, he earned a total of $20 in gift cards.  We fit in practice that week whenever we could. #poolside
Sam baked chocolate chip cookies to take to the VBS program and picinc.
After Joe recited his verses, he had 2 items in mind to purchase with his gift cards.
He chose a Rubix cube
and I added a few dollars so he could also get pictionary -he and Sam have played well on long summer days!

We cherish VBS week!

Golf Camp - Sam

Sam was very excited to do summer golf camp this year at Country Oaks.
{He was not as happy about having his picture taken.}


He joined right in with the others and apparently loved it.
After day 2 he asked if he could join the second week of camp and he was prepared.
He knew it would cost 10 more dollars AND he would have to ask Grandma to take him a couple days and he would take care of both.
He is not our planner so he had put some thought into convincing us to continue.
It wasn't hard to say yes!

One of his favorite things was the fountain pop they got everyday during their break.
His group even made the paper, he is in blue shorts in background!
The second week there were double the kids and a few girls joined in

He has been chipping some shots in the yard and putting in his bedroom.
Seems to love it so far!