VBS

We had a fun week of vacation bible school last week, the theme was Egypt and we studied Joseph's life. Bella made some buddies and ate lots of good snacks.Gabbi stayed in the nursery so I could help out with the big kids. She took lots of buggy rides,

and a few naps along the way. Usually the babies in the buggy are happy, unless they spot Mommy along the route. So, throughout the day, you see mother's diving into stairwells and under desks if the buggy comes by unexpectedly.

This is the power team (the kids who lead worship) and the drama team. I help with the power team because I'm so, so very talented at singing and dancing. Or maybe no one else will do it.

We had a really good group of kids this year, I think it was the best year so far.
My friend Desi feeding the nasty birds her daughter rescued.



Songs and drama.

Bernard with the rascally rat Runihura.

It was nice to have a change of pace and vbs was a lot of fun this year, but we are all a little worn out. Next week is our first "normal" week with all the kids out of school. I have some grand plans for the 5 weeks they are off, but not sure if I can actually accomplish them or not.
This week the big plan is six flags. Pray for me.

The big man on campus

is now 7 years old. He is now officially a 1st grader (gulp) and Bella is officially a kindergartner (double gulp). Since we had a lot of snow days this year he was able to celebrate his birthday (a day early) at school. He got a birthday crown at school and wore it the entire weekend. Morning, noon, and night. It might of accidently gotten buried in the bottom of the recyling can.

We headed out Breese for the weekend and celebrated with the family.

Bern's becoming quite the lego engineer. Brian's got him building us a lego shed in the back yard.

Spider man cake (again). Lots of smoke from all those candles.

Birthday dinner. Starting to run out of room around the table, guess we'll be using a leaf soon. Uncle Jason's feeling a little camera shy.

While the girls hit the pool,

the boys fished.

and they caught some!

Bernard thinks he going to leave the whole removing the fish from the hook thing to Grandpa. Maybe when he's 8 he can handle it.

The training wheels are off!

Peer pressure has finally kicked in, and now he claims to be a biking "expert". That occasionally crashes.