March 13, 2020

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March 9, 2020

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Bethany’s 7th Birthday (Beth)

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Bethany and Mom’s Frozen Date

Getting our nails done.

Back to the Blog

It's been a while and I'm not even exactly sure where I left off on this blog!

I've had camera trouble, then old computer trouble, time trouble, picture organization and storage trouble, new computer trouble - and now I think we have everything figured out!

This blog is a journal of our family. It takes a lot of time. But I think it's worth it.

So - I have some catching up to do. Starting back in June, 2015!

Evening and Morning

Move Up BBQ

It is move-up season! Hard to believe we've been helping with youth stuff for almost a year now - and all my 9th grade babies are sophomores now. Just kidding, they're definitely not babies!

John and Brian manned the grill.

Then we cooled off inside for a bit with games and a great welcome/what we're about from the youth pastors.

I'm excited to see what this next year brings for our youth!

Evening Fishing

This is the trip where we learned "boat rides" with kids are fun. "Fishing trips" with kids are a bit much!

The kids brought toys...

Fishing poles like Daddy....

More toys, snacks, and books....

But when it comes to being quiet for 2 hours on a boat, not really doable.

The kids were SO good... We'll just stick to "boat rides" with them for now!

Last Day of School Carnival

The last day of school, they have a big carnival type event. Games, candy, corndogs, water balloons, popsicles, more games... it was a great time!

Since it's our first year at school, we never have any idea what we sign up for, but they needed help, so the kids and I manned the candy-in-a-haystack station. (Pretty self-explanitory, right!)

The kids loved helping hide the candy AND diving in themselves.

I was busy timing kids in the haystack all afternoon. At one point I walked over to Nate and realized he was enjoying the piles of free candy.... a lot!

Popcorn!

This was a really cool event! I still feel like we're learning the ropes of this school and how everything works, but the carnival was such a great picture of what the small school is - Kids were running around playing games, dads took work off to be at the event with their family, there were even several grandparents who showed up to volunteer at stations and play with the grandkids. I talked to a lot of the teachers, volunteers and parents. It was a fun end of the year celebration for everyone!

James is looking forward to being in the Kindergarten class and Nate is so excited to be in Mrs. Benjamin's Pre-K class in the Fall!

Forest Park

Even though it felt like I spent most of the morning running kids back and forth to the restrooms, we had a fun time at the park with Ellie, Ethan, Hannah, Melissa and Sarah!