Vacation Bible School

Last week was a very busy week for us!!

We spent the week at my mom's so we could go to Vacation Bible School at my home church, First United Methodist-Daingerfield.

Now, I help out every year with VBS at my home church, but this year I had an extra big challenge!  I was asked to lead the Music part of VBS!  Now, as though this wasn't a big enough role since the parent program is a performance of the songs learned in VBS, my dear friend Marnie teaches the music every year, and she is absolutely WONDERFUL!!  So I knew I had some really big shoes to fill!  So all during the week, I just tried to channel my "inner-Marnie" and do the best I could!! :)  And all in all, I think it went pretty well!  The kids were wonderful, and they did great at the program!  We all had lots of fun too!!  Although I did enjoy myself, I can't wait for Marnie to be here next summer to reclaim her role!! :)

Welcome to Babylon!  The decorations were so fun, and I got to spend every night of VBS in here!!

Kylee and Sydney :)

Kade and Bentley :)

Sweet friends at VBS!!

Are these some divas or what??  Sweet girls!!

She was so excited to see Jordan!!

Playing after the program

Having a blast!!

 The kids had a blast!!  I'm so glad they got to enjoy VBS just the way I remember every summer growing up!!  SO FUN!!  It was a great week with friends and family!!

4th of July!!

We did not have a full day planned for the 4th as most people did, but we REALLY enjoyed our day of relaxation!!  The kids were so excited that daddy did not have to go to work today!!  They love when he gets to stay home!!

Our "plans" for the day were going to Dave and Busters to eat dinner and play some games and as Sydney would say "win A LOT of tickets" and then head over for the Frisco fireworks show!!

He LOVES anything with a steering wheel!! :)

The kids had a blast at Dave and Busters, and they could not wait to see some fireworks!!  The bad news....Frisco fireworks show was not scheduled to start until 10:00 (or after the FC Dallas game was over)!!!  I knew Sydney would make it because she was so excited, but Bentley was questionable....but off we went to give it a try!!  We, by some miracle, found a great parking spot where if worse came to worse, we could see the fireworks from the car. :)  It was only 9:00 so we decided to get out and walk around and check all of the "stuff" going on.  Boy did they have a lot of "stuff".....bounce houses, trampoline bungee jumping (or whatever it is called...lol), Disney Junior booth and just about every other kind of booth you could imagine too, a band, and of course the FC Dallas game was going on.  There were soooo many people there!!  We didn't do too man activities since we knew we would be pushing it far enough just making the fireworks show with our tired children who were up WAY past their bedtime. :)  It was nice just walking around though!!  Ok, so as 10:00 is FINALLY approaching, we are noticing that the FC Dallas game is not over. :/  We were thinking...you're kidding!  I wasn't sure our kids would make it until 10:00, and now it was going to be after that before the fireworks started!  Well, we stuck it out, and the game ended and the fireworks started about 10:15.  The kids loved them, but they were definitely tired and ready to go home once they were over!!  But, wow was traffic unreal!!  After sitting for 25 minutes without moving AT ALL, Rod decides to take our Honda Accord over the curb...lol!  No we were not sure it would make it, but at this point it was worth a try!  We made it, and we were on our way home finally!!!!!  We gave the kids the fastest baths of their lives, and we all went to bed!! It was a late night, but we had a great time just spending the night out with our kids!!

Here are some pics from the night...

Ready to check out all of the "stuff"

Hot and tired, but still going!!

Finally time for fireworks!!

Hope you all had a Happy 4th of July as well!!

Blog Attempt- Take 2

Ok, so I know I said way back in January that I was going to start blogging.  Needless to say, I have not kept up with it AT ALL.  I am hoping to do better this go round. :) 

We'll see! 

I will start remembering to take more pictures so I can share on my blog. :)  This is a great week to start since we will be celebrating the 4th tomorrow, and we have VBS next week so I will do my best!

Wish me luck!