Off to Camp We Go

Just wanted to let you all know we're headed off to church camp for a few days. It started out as Children's Camp, 2nd-5th Grade and now we also have the youth camp going with us. They'll be doing different things at different times, but we'll all be there together. Molly and Ryan will be going with us! It's funny because a few weeks ago, Molly asked if we would take her camping and we both laughed! Andy and I are not campers!!! She even wanted to sleep in a tent. A few days later I remembered that we would be going to church camp and that would be Molly and Ryan's camping experience. We will be staying in a cabin on a campground, but we have a bathroom in our cabin, as well as air conditioning and a refrigerator, etc. It's not going to be "roughing it", but it will be an "outdoorsy experience" for the kids! They are sooo excited! I'm going to be leading the worship for the kids and Andy is handling all the recreation activities. There is a 2 story slide and a water trampoline, a lake and a swimming pool. No, I am not going fishing. We'll let you know how it goes and we'll try to post pictures....however, I haven't been able to upload pictures in months! Onto the church bus and off to camp we go!

We have not abonded the BLOG!

Happy Middle of the Summer to everyone! As you can see from the last post, which was June 4, we have been busy...too busy to write and keep you all up to date. Since June 4, we started and finished our tumbling classes (which were fun) and also have enjoyed the library's summer reading program. Today was Molly's last class because we'll be gone to church camp next week and then the summer reading program will be over. We also had an awesome VBS this summer. The theme was Boomerang Express! We went "Down Under" to the Great Outback and it was fun! I participated in the Douglas County Relay for Life. Our team, the Newmaniacs (formerly known as the Newmanites) were third in fundraising and we were definitely the most spirited team. We ended up with 14 members and participated in all the fun laps and games. Molly and Ryan went to their first movie, "Up", which they loved. Since Andy loves movies soooo much, we took them for his birthday and they did great! We're going to try to go see the new Ice Age movie soon. We've had pink eye in our house too...there's nothing like a couple of crusty eyed, sweaty kids running around the house. Thankfully, the pink eye is all gone now! We also had so much fun at my family reunion in Benton. It was so awesome listening to my family sing and play piano and guitar! Family harmony...there's nothing like it! It was absolutely beautiful and made me realize how thankful I am for such an awesome Christian family who helped me understand and LOVE music, especially Christian music - AND love the Lord! Andy and I also painted the whole house a few weeks ago. When we get back from church camp, we are going to paint the whole funeral home...that's going to take a few days! Oh yeah, another really cool thing is that Ryan is about half way through his potty training and we haven't really done anything yet. Molly told him he needed to start going on the potty and she goes in there with him and if he goes potty then he gets a treat and she gets one too for helping him, so of course, they both want treats, so they try to go a lot :) They are tooooooo funny! We hope you're all doing great and we'll try to do a better job of keeping you up to date on what's going on! Have a great rest of the summer!