VBS - A week in review

We had a fabulous VBS with an average of about 300 kids per night. We had a lot of souls saved and saw a lot of growth in these children. Here are some of my fave pics of the week. We will star off with a couple of boys I had in Children's church for a couple of years. They are a couple of characters.  

Showing off some dance moves.

A bunch of our silly girls. They are a fun group.

Say "Cheese".

B.F.F's.

I loved watching these two do the music.

A very dear friend with two of my grandchildren.

Shelby and Tanner. Best buddies this past week. 

Our four year old class.

Some of the kindergarten kids.

This little boy comes with his grandparents. He has adopted me and calls me Mammy B. 

Some of the kids having fun. 

These teachers were making sure to stand way back during the water balloon fights. 

Our famous train. The kids love to ride the train.

Taking a quick break before heading in for music.

My grandson and my friend exchanging texts so they could add each other to their phones.

It is a tradition at our church to walk with Bubble Faces and Duck Tales to may sure we don't disturb other classes. These girls loved doing the Bubble Faces.

Of course some of our teachers loved it too.

Some of our kitchen crew. Probably the hardest workers at VBS.

Hanging out between sessions.

This couple has three kids 4 years old and under. Caught them enjoying a rare moment with no children.

The popcorn and snow cone crew. My personal favorites.

Our dedicated leader. This was her first year in charge of VBS and she did an outstanding job. Everything flowed smoothing. Thank you Tracey for making this an awesome VBS.

One tuckered out little cutie.

Working on our songs for family night.

I don't know where they got all their energy.

Mr. Zack wanted his picture saluting the flag. He is a very sweet boy. 

On stage during family night. 

This is K through 6 grades. We had a lot of kids and a lot of fun.

Shelby (r) and her best friend Megan (l). They have been in Sunday School, Children's Church and VBS together since they started walking. 

As you can tell, we had a fun week. 

Break time.....

Away from blogging for the day. I'll catch up with y'all tomorrow. 

Facebook Finds

I love looking at the various posting on Facebook. Some are precious, some our profound and some are just down right hilarious. I thought I would post a few for your viewing pleasure.

This was just too cute. 

I love this one. I personally know a lot of Cancer survivors. Many are in my own family. 

So true, so true. Wish more parents understood this.

Oh, yes, please punish me if this is my punishment.

This is profound.

Amen is all I can say to this.

Being a natural brunette, I can relate to this. 

And this was my favorite pic of the week. I really laughed out loud when I read this one. 

Have a great day!

Something to share from Mom

My mom made a couple of new runners. I love when she makes these. The newest ones are beautiful.

It's easy to see where my sister gets her decorating gene.

Family Talents

I come from a family with four children. We each have our own strengths and weaknesses. And we all have our own talents and areas of expertise. I was blessed with the ability to write. At least people tell me it is a talent of mine. My brother, Jack, is a very talented woodworker. He has made many pieces of furniture over the years without any pattern or plan. Just his gifted mind and his talented hands. My brother, Andy, started helping coach Little League baseball when he was just 16. He soon moved up to have his own team and he has been involved in sports now for over 30 years. He has taken many, many teams to the All Star championships. My sister, Rachel, is an extremely talented decorator. She can take the most simple of items and create a display that is gorgeous. I love when the seasons change and she does a new decor with her front porch. I wanted to share with you some pics she sent of her summer porch. 

She bought this little red wagon at Terry's Village. She is going to change up what sets in it to match the seasons or holidays. It is going to be fun to watch what changes she makes along the way.

I love the way she fixed up this little table. 

You can find flowers and birdhouses all over her outdoors.

See what I mean? Isn't it adorable.

This just makes me want to grab a book and curl up on the swing.

She used to have a very small porch and they enclosed it and made it into a sitting room. She had one of the original house windows separating the two rooms and has never liked it. This past weekend, she had her hubby take the window out, frame it in and paint it to open up the space between the two rooms. It turned out awesome. 

I am not sure if these pillows were from placemats or not, but she makes a lot of her swing pillows by purchasing placemats, ripping the seam in the end, stuffing them and sewing them back up.

A view of the new opening as seen through the living room side. 

I love the little bunny rabbit planter.

See what I mean when I say she is very talented?

Weekend Wrap Up

I have had a very relaxing weekend. My house is still a mess because we are waiting on the carpet guy to come and put in new carpet after the hot water heater fiasco last week. He is supposed to be here the first of the week. In the meantime, my master bath and my office are piled up with everything from our walk-in closet. I decided to close those two doors and just enjoy the weekend. Garret and I had an awesome time playing some card games yesterday. And we had a long rousing game of Monopoly, which of course, he won. 

My new Railroad Denim Free to Be purse came Friday. I normally carry big purses, but I must admit this one held just what I needed for a quick run to Walmart and the store.

My sister ordered this little camper coin purse. It is adorable.  

There are some new puddings out. Hubby bought the Almond Joy, Hershey Bar and Mounds. I made him the Mounds first. It was very good, but the texture was a little weird with the coconut flakes in pudding. But he loved it. 

After eating a small bowl of it, he asked me if I could make it into a pie. So I bought a pre-made graham cracker pie crust, put the pudding in it and covered it with Cool Whip. I had a couple of miniature mounds bars so I used my nutmeg grader to make chocolate sprinkles on the top. I put it in the freezer and made it like an ice cream pie. It was delicious. Not to mention it turned out kind of pretty if I do say so myself.

While I was at Walmart, I decided to breeze through the kitchen section. I have been looking for a new tablecloth. I found one that had a matching rug and dishtowel. Now just to find time to put it all out. This has all the colors of my Pyrex collection.

I love beach themed books. Especially the ones from the Low Country in SC. My all time favorite was Sweetgrass by Mary Alice Monroe. Needless to say when a friend told me about her new trilogy regarding three sisters and that it took place in the Low Country, I had to have it. I can't wait to get started on it. 

Vacation Bible School starts this week. It is Ageny D3 as the theme. My granddaughter requested that our craft be glasses for disguise to go with the VBS spy theme. I found these at Walmart for just $2.50 for the everything. 

VBS officially started last night. It was a blast as usual. I am helping with the music & motions for the 2 - 5 year old. They are in three different classes. I would say all total we had about 40-50 kids in those age groups that came to activity time. The 5 year old class had 22 attending just from that age group.